Now You're Cooking-Designing Solar Ovens!

The Endeavor Team had the exciting opportunity this week to test our solar oven designs.  As scientist we have engaged in many activities that have pushed us to respond with wonderment as to how these solar ovens were going to cook our s'mores! Students spent 2 days designing their ovens and calculating the impact their supplies had on our environment.  Not only were they hopeful that the designs would cook a s'more, but they had to adhere to Green Engineering Practices and use resources that were local and available, hopefully recyclable and or reusable!

We captured our current understanding of "How the Solar Ovens Work" in detailed diagrams and today we will revise these drawings to add any details that we observed while testing them in the bright warm sun!  We also will test each oven, one more time!  We will make adjustments to our thermal insulators so that we can improve our oven's score!  We scored our ovens based on Heat (highest temperature reached), Cooling (slowly cooling to 5 degrees within shade temperature) and impact on environment!  Ovens ranged from 16.5 points to -11 points!  Our Green Engineers are working hard to learn from any mistakes and to tap into their Growth Mindsets and understand that the improvement step is always in action!