Lesson 2 Reflection

1. I am most proud of the pictures of my slideshow because of the many beautiful pieces of machinery (cars) featured in it. 2. I would give myself a P+ on my presentation. 2b. I feel that I deserve a P+ on my presentation because of the flow and pace of my presentation. I am almost positive I met all the P requirements and think that a P+ would be a conservative assessment considering all of my many props presented during the presentation. 3. I think that my activity worked out well for me even though I thought that it might have been repetitive, but it turned out to work well because it engaged the entire classroom as a group and reassured me of their understanding. 4. The only part that didn't work right was when Yuritzi told me that I only had a minute and nineteen seconds left, so I started cramming my activity together and then was relieved about a couple of minutes into my "forward mode" when they told me I still had nine minutes left for my activity. If I could go back in time I would have definitely looked at the clock for myself or had it more visible so that I wouldn't have to rush through the activity on accident. 5. I think that my second answer might go into more depth on the engine components and the mechanics of everything in order to help the audience better understand the reasons for certain procedures when maintaining an automobile.

Blog 12: Mentorship 10 Hours

I am doing my mentorship at the Bavarian Garage in Glendora, California. If what you mean by contact is who I usually contact to go in for mentorship, then that would be my mentor Pedro Miranda, the owner of the shop. I have done a total of 32 hours. Most of my mentorship consists of working around the shop which includes: Washing cars, assisting on taking off tires, helping do oil changes, brake flushes, and the everyday maintenance and repair of the daily customers' cars that roll in. I usually am working with Nick the mechanic who is Pedro's main mechanic in the shop. I am very lucky and blessed to have such a great opportunity to work with mechanics with so much experience. They also let me drive some of the nice BMW's from the parking lot into the garage which is awesome because some of them are straight up beasts (fast).

Blog 11: Holiday Project Update

1. Unfortunately I was unable to do any mentorship over the break due to both mine and my mentor’s busy schedules. However, I was able to watch many videos on cars and the mechanics of them which helps me to further understand the many moving parts and functions of an automobile. 2. What I learned the most about my senior topic is the functions of exhaust headers and how they can be used to increase horsepower. I also learned the differences and correlations between torque and horsepower. This is a very important concept to understand because of the tuning of vehicles, in order to tune a vehicle to reach its best possible performance, torque and horsepower are as important to know as it is for a baby to know what a good old fashioned whipping is. The source I used for this research was all found on YouTube. 3. I would probably talk to Nick the mechanic at the Bavarian Garage because he has been in the business for many years and is definitely a viable source of car information.