5th May 2020
Virtual Car Team Week 7: Car Designs, Quiz Night and a Surprise 'Party' - is all in a night's work for CAUC!
As it is Mr G's birthday this week, we decided to host a surprise 'virtual' birthday party. To ''decorate the room'' we each changed our backgrounds to something birthday related. When we saw he was connected, we sang 'Happy Birthday' (...a very out of tune version may I add!) and Lynn even had some party poppers!! Although it was decided that like the Queen, we'll have to arrange a second birthday once this is all over!!
.......It would also probably be best if we work on our singing in the meantime too!!!!
Following the discussions last week on what modifications we could make to improve the simulation results, tonight, we were able to get to grips with our latest design - seeing all of our ideas as a reality.
Next, we had ourselves a mini 'Graph Tuesday!'. Using paraview, we collated each simulation result onto one graph to see which of our designs yielded the best results. This was a really useful exercise as it allowed us to clearly see which attempt was proving to be the most aerodynamic.
Moving on from designing electric cars, we turned our attention to elastic powered cars!! After watching Gav's video on the Greenpower Community Page (Check it out here if you haven't seen already!!) and never being one to turn down a challenge - we've decided to give it a go. Question is - which CAUC member will be able to ride the furthest?! You'll have to watch this space to find out!!!!!!
All car designed out (both electric and elastic!), it was over to Lil to host 'CAUC Lockdown Quiz Night' - Week 3!
This week we were treated to four ingenious rounds! Including; Guess the WikiHow Page, Guess the Character Combination, Famous Quotes and finally, my personal favourite, Guess the CAUC team member.
This week, with over 1000 points ahead, our clear winner was Cate!!!
It was no surprise, that this weeks 'Loser' was Mr G - who laughing after Round 1 stated ''I've not scored any points yet!''
We are taking these weekly quizzes extremely seriously...we've now got a spreadsheet keeping track of the scores and leader boards (....Have we ever said that we can get quite competitive ;P).
After week 3 - here is the current standings:
Kudos to Cate - who is the first team member to be listed on both the Winner and Loser Board!!! What an achievement!
Before signing off for the night, we managed to get our fix of #CAUCPetsOnZoom - as Lil brought Barney the tortoise to say hello and join the party!! (Thankfully this time, he had no accidents!!)
That's all from us this week. Hope everyone has a great bank holiday - stay safe, and we'll see you in next week's blog!