We also talked a lot about the Mars missions and how planetary movement and gravitational fields play into space travel for both machines and humans. He also explained some of the projects that NASA is working on currently, like radiation protection, keeping the Voyager alive, and large scale acoustics. By controlling the screen in front of us, he was able to show us cool aspects from and uses for the NASA's Eyes Program, which we downloaded for ourselves. We had him on speaker phone while he controlled Dr. Bill, Sydney Cooper, Alice Patig, and Sienna Levine. I had the spectacular opportunity to speak to a NASA correspondent and engineer located at the Kennedy Space Center along with Dr. Today was a super duper awesome day to have an independent. The next steps in my project are to measure the effectiveness of hanging sound panels, research the possibility of implementing hanging sound panels in the energy lab, push for the use of sound tiles in the reconstruction of the dining hall gym, and to standardize a system of procedures and materials for other schools/facilities to replicate my research. The end goal of my project is to quantitatively prove with graphical data the sound quality of rooms and to use this data to make improvement to the space's acoustics and thus student learning and teacher efficiency. Sydney Bonham will be using an EEG Brainwave Headset to prove that noises do in fact effect the processes of the brain. It is crucial for a school to create optimal learning spaces, and I am focusing on improving the acoustics aspect of that. This research is important to HPA students and teachers because noise effects concentration and intelligibility. I acted on this data by changing the desk formation to accommodate teaching towards the east end of the room, and I put up sound panels that line the desks. In other words, sound dissipates quickly and frequencies are reflected in even decibels in the East end of the room. Through this, I discovered that the east end of the room produces the best acoustics because it created the fastest frequency decay and reverberation times as well as a relatively even frequency response. I took measurements, that included frequency response, frequency decay time, and reverberation time, facing my equipment in each cardinal and inter cardinal point in the room. The first space I have analyzed acoustically is the main room in the Energy Lab. After I had gained a basic understanding of FuzzMeasure, researched the physics and properties of sound waves and boundary behavior, narrowed down my sound equipment (two speakers and a microphone) to the best quality using the frequency response feature, and made these materials portable, I was able to begin taking real classroom data. Luigi had previously used this program to take generalized measurements of a few spaces on campus, but I began to expand his research and develop my own processes. My research took a surprising shift when I started using FuzzMeasure to research acoustics. I started a little bit of programing, brainwave study, and wrote my proposal abstract mainly on the environmental audits of the campus with Netatmo Sensors. Admittedly, for the first two weeks I was pretty lost because there was a lot going on and a lot of options. Quarter 1 has been a fabulous introduction to undertaking an independent study at HPA. Although they probably did not understand a lot that I said, it was great to share my project with that many people and have that practice. I also got to learn some more about the drone this week and have the chance to fly it! Yet, probably the funnest thing I got to do this week was present to students visiting our school from Japan. He has been sending her all kinds of cool research and updates from ongoing projects at NASA beyond the HI-SEAS project. I have started receiving email updates from the NASA HI-SEAS project, and I plan to get the email address of the man we spoke to from Kennedy Space Center from Sydney Cooper. Other than this, my week was spent taking advantage of some other cool opportunities at the ELAB. In the future, I will have to plan ahead with the infirmary for times I can drive it. I can now take my equipment anywhere I need to for testing, but it is dependent on availability.
#SETTING UP FUZZMEASURE LICENSE#
This week headway on my acoustics research primarily included getting my golf cart license for driving on the HPA Campus.
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