Genius Hour Semester 2 Reflection and Evaluation
Gage Yaggie
How to Drive a Manual
Summarize the purpose of your Genius Hour project.
The purpose of my Genius Hour project was to teach someone how a clutch and stick shift work and also how to drive a stick shift vehicle. Also, with including a video, I hopefully making it easier to understand the basic technique to drive a stick.
Explain the process of your Genius Hour project. Be reflective. Be contemplative. Explain and describe your journey.
The process was not very long. It began with doing research and refreshing my memory on how a clutch system works. i did a good amount of research before i put a final explanation on my site. It was not very hard to do, but to find a good enough site with the correct information took a bit. I also asked some other resources, just to check that my understanding of the clutch was right.
Next, i put the information about how a clutch works on my website and then began to get pictures of the certain parts in the clutch. I then began to explain how to drive a stick. in this, i gave step by step instructions from shifting to hitting the gas at the proper time. This took a good amount of time since i wanted to make sure it was of full of the correct information and fully explained.
The final step was making the video. to do this i had someone video my feet working the pedals. at the same time, the video included the RPM of the engine and the speed of which i was going when i shifted. I demonstrated how to upshift and downshift properly. giving that every engine is different in size, i explained that when it comes to shifting points, they tend to be much different.
The intention For Genius Hour is NOT only to learn, but ALSO to share your knowledge with others who can and will benefit from your learning. How did you share your learning? What do you hope the result might be?
I shared my learning with my auto tech class. i shared the how to video and the information on my page. I also was thinking about showing it to other auto tech classes at well so that everyone gets a chance to learn something new. seeing that everyone who is in auto tech must like dealing with vehicles, i believed they enjoyed the video, giving the students a reason to maybe go out and try this task.
from this i hope that they learned how to properly drive a manual. i also hope that the students will actually want to learn how to drive a stick and make an effort to get out and learn. though i had some students already ask, i hope they come to me to learn. if the students are willing to learn i’m willing to teach, since it is such a simple concept. I also hope that the students will go out and spread the word about my website and encourage them to watch my video. i believe that if one can handle the multitasking of driving a manual, then anyone should be able to get behind the wheel and drive anything they want.
If you could do anything different with your Genius Hour project what would you do differently and why?
If i could change anything on my genius hour project i would add more vehicle information. i would go more in depth about a vehicle and its parts and the way they work. providing more knowledge to those who might not know that much about vehicles, in simple ways so one could understand. i would make my site more about a vehicle and ways to better maintain one, so it would last longer and run more efficiently.
Other than this, i would not change another thing on my genius hour project. I chose this topic because i know i could relate to it and give great detail about the subject. this made it much easier and much more fun to do the project, since i got to use my own vehicle. it also gave me a reason to fix my truck so i could perform the video with much more success.
Reflect on what you did well during this Genius Hour process? Note your successes and accomplishments.
Things that i did well were using my time wisely and getting the project done as soon as i possibly could. I worked on it little by little, not always having to do research, but some of it working on my truck. One major accomplishment was finishing the project before the due date. this gave me time to look at it and make it better, knowing there was no more rush to get it done.
Another success was actually getting the truck in running order for the video. without the truck, i would not have been able to make the video and make it easier for those who want to learn to drive a manual. Also, getting to teach some fellow students was an accomplishment. Without this presentation, some may have never thought they could drive a stick, but since they saw it was so easy, some asked me to even teach them in the future.
Gage Yaggie
How to Drive a Manual
Summarize the purpose of your Genius Hour project.
The purpose of my Genius Hour project was to teach someone how a clutch and stick shift work and also how to drive a stick shift vehicle. Also, with including a video, I hopefully making it easier to understand the basic technique to drive a stick.
Explain the process of your Genius Hour project. Be reflective. Be contemplative. Explain and describe your journey.
The process was not very long. It began with doing research and refreshing my memory on how a clutch system works. i did a good amount of research before i put a final explanation on my site. It was not very hard to do, but to find a good enough site with the correct information took a bit. I also asked some other resources, just to check that my understanding of the clutch was right.
Next, i put the information about how a clutch works on my website and then began to get pictures of the certain parts in the clutch. I then began to explain how to drive a stick. in this, i gave step by step instructions from shifting to hitting the gas at the proper time. This took a good amount of time since i wanted to make sure it was of full of the correct information and fully explained.
The final step was making the video. to do this i had someone video my feet working the pedals. at the same time, the video included the RPM of the engine and the speed of which i was going when i shifted. I demonstrated how to upshift and downshift properly. giving that every engine is different in size, i explained that when it comes to shifting points, they tend to be much different.
The intention For Genius Hour is NOT only to learn, but ALSO to share your knowledge with others who can and will benefit from your learning. How did you share your learning? What do you hope the result might be?
I shared my learning with my auto tech class. i shared the how to video and the information on my page. I also was thinking about showing it to other auto tech classes at well so that everyone gets a chance to learn something new. seeing that everyone who is in auto tech must like dealing with vehicles, i believed they enjoyed the video, giving the students a reason to maybe go out and try this task.
from this i hope that they learned how to properly drive a manual. i also hope that the students will actually want to learn how to drive a stick and make an effort to get out and learn. though i had some students already ask, i hope they come to me to learn. if the students are willing to learn i’m willing to teach, since it is such a simple concept. I also hope that the students will go out and spread the word about my website and encourage them to watch my video. i believe that if one can handle the multitasking of driving a manual, then anyone should be able to get behind the wheel and drive anything they want.
If you could do anything different with your Genius Hour project what would you do differently and why?
If i could change anything on my genius hour project i would add more vehicle information. i would go more in depth about a vehicle and its parts and the way they work. providing more knowledge to those who might not know that much about vehicles, in simple ways so one could understand. i would make my site more about a vehicle and ways to better maintain one, so it would last longer and run more efficiently.
Other than this, i would not change another thing on my genius hour project. I chose this topic because i know i could relate to it and give great detail about the subject. this made it much easier and much more fun to do the project, since i got to use my own vehicle. it also gave me a reason to fix my truck so i could perform the video with much more success.
Reflect on what you did well during this Genius Hour process? Note your successes and accomplishments.
Things that i did well were using my time wisely and getting the project done as soon as i possibly could. I worked on it little by little, not always having to do research, but some of it working on my truck. One major accomplishment was finishing the project before the due date. this gave me time to look at it and make it better, knowing there was no more rush to get it done.
Another success was actually getting the truck in running order for the video. without the truck, i would not have been able to make the video and make it easier for those who want to learn to drive a manual. Also, getting to teach some fellow students was an accomplishment. Without this presentation, some may have never thought they could drive a stick, but since they saw it was so easy, some asked me to even teach them in the future.