Alamogordo High (5)

The Alamogordo High School team (#5) is from Alamogordo. This year they've submitted a project titled Understanding and Prevention of Flooding.

Proposal
http://mode.lanl.k12.nm.us/get_proposal1112.php?team_id=4

Our project will deal with understanding floods and using that knowledge to help raise the awareness of flooding and how to protect property in the case of an impending flood. We will do this by understanding how water behaves during floods and analyzing historical data of floods in those areas. We will help make salient in ones mind through the use of a simulation we will show how to protect buildings from a flood in various locations. The programming language we will use is C# with the microsoft 2010 visual compiler. Raising awareness of floods and understanding how they behave will aid families in protecting their life and property in the case of a flood. Considering that floods drive some 75,000 Americans from their homes on average each year, along with hundreds of people being killed this can be very beneficial to everyone.

Interim Report
http://mode.lanl.k12.nm.us/get_interim1112.php?team_id=5

Problem
The problem we are solving is understanding how water behaves during flooding and how to protect buildings from floods in various real world locations. We are solving this by developing a realistic simulation of water and how it reacts to flowing past various objects through complex fluid simulations.

Progress
Our progress to this point has been that of research and development of a way to realistically represent water. We have found a way with a particle based viscoelastic fluid simulation.

We expect to find a way to divert flood waters easier than the common methods in use today.

Introduction
Hi,

My name is Drew Einhorn. See the biography on my User Page.

Mentors
If you do not yet have a mentor, please contact consult for help in finding a mentor to help you with this ambitious project.

Model
At this stage we like to see your mathematical model, and a plan on converting that to a computational model.

Face to Face Evaluation
Your next milestone is a |face to face evaluation in February.

Rubrics
The judges will use these rubrics to evaluate your projects. Use them as checklists for what you need to communicate to the judges.


 * Expo Judges Rubric
 * Finalist Judges Rubric

Good Luck!!
You have a project with a lot of potential. But, you have a lot of work to do!