20 Time Final Post

20 time has been very productive and fun. My idea was to make an easy, clean filter to clean water. In addition, I attempted to make an evaporation chamber to heat up the water and kill bacteria. I used charcoal and sand to make a filter. The sand gets rid of the major pollutants, and the charcoal's carbon properties capture the smaller pollutants. The evaporation chamber is an aluminum pan and a plexiglass frame

      

I feel that my Ted- Talk went reasonably well. I could have been a little more practiced though. I stuttered a little bit, but my speech was fluent, I used hand gestures, and I remembered my presentation for the most part. The one thing I forgot was to say was what I learned and how I have grown. I will tell you that now. I learned basic engineering skills. I have never been particularly good at building things, but I manged to build my project with minimal help from my dad. I have also learned about perseverence. My project failed multiple times, but each time, I picked myself up and redesigned it until it worked. At first, I was really nervous for my Ted-Talk. I have never been good at public speaking, but I felt that I did well. I learned more about public speaking and showing my work off.

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I hope that I will be able to continue my work. I want to make it more effective and work better.  When I go to India, I will try to showcase my work to help people. I enjoyed 20 time overall. I liked learning about other people's passions.