all this right this first I'm going to see a quick [Music] Cranky cranky yes you'll see pictures right but it was fine and when you go back on
how many days after tomorrow okay very nice yes i'd like to call this meeting to order adequate notice has been given this meeting as required by law notice for publication the district official newspapers post in the Absagami Cedar
Creek and Oakrest High Schools and forwarded to all the clerks of the municipalities within this school district there are two opportunities to address the members of the board the board values and welcomes comments and opinions from residents as long as remarks are not personal or discourteous the public comment portion of the meeting allows the board to listen to
community members and hear their opinions on school policy and operation the first public portion is reserved for persons wishing to speak about agenda items only the second opportunity following the action items when residents may address the board on any school related issue each speaker is asked to limit their comments to three
minutes and you're not permitted to yield your time to another the com public comment portion of the meeting during both sessions will not exceed 30 minutes upon being recognized persons wishing to speak should stand and identify themselves by name and town please stand for the flag salute to the flag of the United States
of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all and I ask for a moment of silence edmonds here garrison here gunther here
hartman here hasa kurly here storio here wright here hal here nelson here boo here you have a question thank you need a motion to approve the minutes so moved
second okay the minutes from March 17th have been moved and seconded any questions comments or corrections edmonds yes garrison yes gunther yes hartman yes kurly yes storio yes wright
yes al yes motion is approved okay we have some presentations we do we have two presentations this evening uh one Cedar Creek students and one SSDS by Brenda Callahan um I will start with the students first so they are not subjected
to I mean but anyway Mr parker floor is yours okay so four students I'm going to turn over design but as I was thinking about all the hard work for this when they come in we talk
question about the one I want students that get involved represent group of people as I went through I started looking about everything involved in every activity we have all the arts
clubs 95% they're involved in everything everywhere [Music] Double turn again this year before
Um but these guys actually well and last um I got an email regarding the challenge put it out to all the kids that signed up for summer i jumped on it immediately and we started last June
so um been a long time that we've been working on a lot a lot of hours um as well academy and all of the high tech guys and biotech
guys level and do it by ourselves a bit of a village to get here and thank the district for continuing to support our relationship
center that come in five times here invaluable in this um process giving them like skill high level of technology that allows them to
get them without them so thanks very much and further ado good evening everyone we are the real world design challenge team so I am
Michelle Newwen i am the engineering lead this is Francesca Franczo she's the project lead and manager and also as well as lead cat designer this is Ariel Neils she is media lead and lead concept designer and this is Arjun Sakar business lead uh Mrs martinelli is our
coach and adviser as well as that we have two mentors Mrs jeannie Bridle and Mr matthew Mariani and when we first found out about this competition we knew that we wanted to tackle this within we were together since our junior year taking AP computer science and it only
felt natural that we came back together again so within an hour we met with Miss M over Zoom and registered for our team so what is the real world design challenge well it's an annual competition where you tackle a real world like engineering design challenge
and apply the lessons you learn in the classroom such as using decision matrix and engineering design process to technical problems are faced in our modern day society so the problem statement we were given this year was that wildfires
burned millions of acres of forest land and cause billions of dollars in damage this has been a rising problem as you've seen from the LA fires to recent fires in Warden State and this is simply going to be a growing problem and so for our design statement we were tasked with designing a single unmanned aerial
vehicle capable of transporting critical supplies within a specified time leading up to this board of education meeting uh as Miss Martinelli said we won the state round uh and allowed us to participate in the national and
international competition in Washington um during the state round we had to complete a notebook with all of our research and was graded on how how well
we how innovative our solution is and how well we constructed and worded our notebook what we accomplished was we beat 15 teams in New Jersey and we were given the state champion
award yeah so for the national round it's a breakout room of 15 minutes of presentation and then 10 minutes for questions the judges the judges
determine the n the national ranking and which uh choose the finalists for the international round for the international round we go into uh the final round of in front of the judges and audience we have another 15 minutes of presentation and 10 minutes of
questions the judges determined the international ranking and the winner for the real world design challenge 2024 2025 so our solution to this problem was octtopi it is a eight prop drone or an
octacopter so it has eight arms eight motors and eight propellers it is capable of carrying 30 kg which is about 72 lbs of cargo it can fly 90minute flights and it has an operating range of 93 kilometers which is about 60 miles um
this both meets and exceeds the criteria set by the competition and for a little bit of context this was made on Fusion 360 the CAD software that we learned as part of our engineering program it is an isometric view which means that it is
created and modeled at a 30 degree angle so that you can see as many components as possible without impacting the ratio and the sizing of all components um there's also a parts list so you can see how each of the components were made and then the
image itself is an assembled version so thank you and if you have any questions let us know [Applause] so I I have a question so where where did you find the
data rate your your All of it was based on research we found online we used a lot of thesis because a lot of people have written about how to optimize drones so a lot of people wrote master's thesis and we read through those a lot of our mentors also gave us a lot of resources especially the people
who work at the FAA there's a couple different people who this is their job is to design drones so we had a lot of resources from that too now with with data points were you able to use AI to help gather that information faster yes
there is a um website that was recommended to us also by another mentor called Perplexity which you can ask the question and it's very useful for research because it doesn't just give you a generated answer it gives you sources it tells you why it knows this information where it's getting this information from and then you can check
the validity of the sources it's very it's basically a like better s search engine which definitely is very useful instead of sifting through 50 different research papers it gives me the top 10 that'll help me the most oh yes all of that
and while the numbers that I gave you are theoretical they are based on math and calculations that we have done um all of our physics was done by Arjun he calculated how fast it could theoretically go how long it could stay in flight for with the batteries that we use and the motors that we use and then
we also did some research on how thrust is going to impact propellers themselves because when you have a lot of propellers in a big circle they can create vortices and if you're too close to each other the vortices start hurting each other which then makes it a lot harder to produce force to get us off the ground so we had to calculate a lot
of stuff with the dimensions so we could figure out how far away the vortices needed to be thank you so I'm sorry K i just want to know how big the drone is um it is 3 m by 3 meters if you're going from one end of the propeller to the other on the
opposite side um first off congratulations to the four of you and excellent job this evening speaking it's not easy to get up in front of a group in front of a group talk whether you're looking at something or just speaking yourselves i want to congratulate all of you on doing that
it's a huge step while still a student to be able to do that those are skills that are portable into college into career so just continue working on those personal communication skills and that ability to present and you that will take you far in many aspects so
congratulations on how well you did this evening oh