Picacho Middle School (99)

The Picacho Middle School team (#99) is from Las Cruces. This year they've submitted a project titled Recycle Water.

Proposal
http://mode.lanl.k12.nm.us/get_proposal1112.php?team_id=99

Team: 99

School: Picacho Mid

Area of Science: Environmental Science

Proposal: The problem- there isn’t enough water to go around in the state of New Mexico. This is a very important problem; water is the basic thing all living things need to survive, including humans. With us wasting water everywhere, it is important for us to find new resources. We plan to design a filter for filtering contaminated water, used water, and salt water. Hopefully, this will help with the problem. We are going to first do research on how to design a filter. Then, we are going to make our own, and design it on StarlogoTNG. After, we will test it using Starlogo again and see how it works, collecting data as we go.

Team Members:

 * Allison Mitchell
 * Jeremiah Tonks
 * Ramon Zavala
 * Ivan Lira.

Facilitators:

 * Mrs. Hagaman
 * Mrs. Bischof
 * Mrs. Stout
 * Mrs. Kindig

Interim Report
http://mode.lanl.k12.nm.us/get_interim1112.php?team_id=99

Interim:

Problem definition:
there isn’t enough water to go around the state of New Mexico.

Problem solution:
use filter to recycle used water into drinking water so we can have water to drink.

References:
water purification.com Recycling water.com Google.com recycling

Interim Comments
Hi my name is Eleanor Walther and I have been asked to give you feedback on your interim report. I am a champion for Expanding Your Horizons, Project GUTS and the Challenge, being head judge of the EXPO in April. I am retired from Sandia National Laboratories, where I was the Principal Member of the Technical Staff, Emergent Threats. I having been working with the Challenge since 1998.

Your interim report is quite brief so it makes it a little hard for me to make very many comments. At what scale are you planning to filter the water? City? Homeowner? Regional? What sorts of assumptions will you make about what is in the used water that you need to filter out to make the water potable? I suggest that you contact one of the mentors in the southern part of the state to help you get started.

Also your references aren't really citations.

Final Report
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