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Midhansh
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MIDHANSH NAVANI
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GRADE 10

My u
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P to d
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(Measures the Moisture in your
plant and water’s it on it’s own
using the pump!)
 Why did I choose it?
• As my parents are also engineers, I have

LEARNING always been fascinated by how

GOAL
Growing up, I volunteered at my dad’s
office back in India and participated in
different workshops. Therefore,to build
My Learning goal would be to different Projects in the future this
acquire basic knowledge about learning goal would help me getting a lot
the C++ coding language and use of knowledge on C++ language as well as
the Arduino IDE modified machine language which would be a
great first vital step in entering the
language, which is an open
workforce field.
source hardware platform, to
compile & process it into machine
language to make AI Integrated Evidence
projects in the future.
 PRODUCT
SUCCESS CRTIERIA
GOAL
MY PRODUCT GOAL IS TO CREATE AN
AUTOMATED FUNCTIONAL WATERING
SYSTEM FOR POTTED PLANTS USING C++
CODING WITH ARDUINO IDE SOFTWARE AND
MY PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE ON CIRCUITS.

FUNCTIONQUALITATIVETECHNICALITY
WHILE DECIDING THE SUCCESS CRITERIONS FOR MY
PRODUCT, I TOOK 3 MAIN QUALITIES INTO
CONSIDERATION. I SPENT TIME ANALYSING ABOUT THE
SUCCESS CRITERIA'S THEY USED AND AS A BEGINNER
TO ARDUINO, I SET THE STANDARDS AND PARAMETERS
REALISTIC FOR ME TO COMPLETE AND EVALUATE
AFTER THE FINAL PRODUCT. IT INVOLVED THE
TECHNICAL ASPECT OF THE PRODUCT, THE
FUNCTIONALITY OF THE PRODUCT AS WELL AS THE
QUALITATIVE TRAIT. MY PRODUCT HAD TO FUNCTION
RELIABLE SCALABILITY CODING ACCURACY ACCURATELY AS WELL AS FOR A LONGER PERIOD WITH
MINIMAL ERRORS. PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF IT BEING
WATER EFFICIENT SENSOR RESPONSE
NEAT ORGANIZED LAYOUT FUNCTIONAL IS TO BE WATER EFFICIENT. THE
AUTOMATION TECHNICAL SUCCESS CRITERION FOR MY PRODUCT
WOULD BE THE CODING ACCURACY AS SUBSTANTIAL
PART OF THE PRODUCT IS RELIED ON THE CODING. THE
 ACTION PLAN
While planning out this project, I By the end of this project, I was
developed two different timelines faced with various challenges
which operated on a bi-weekly including the completion of code
basis, the first one being a before deadline with accuracy,
general plan for broader tasks to making it water efficient by a
help me stay on track and keep
substantial margin and having no
me updated on what I am
access to certain hardware
supposed to be working on, and
materials such as jumper wires,
the second one was the more in-
depth one including all the little and a soldering machine as well
details with a step-by-step list of as prioritizing things as they came
things to be followed. To ensure up, whichlead me to go off track
maximum success, I added a side my action plan a couple of times
column note to add anything that but in the end, I had my system
I missed during the bi-weekly operating as desired. More details
timer and make sure to add it to have been shared in the notes
another next two weeks until the regarding the long-term action
showcase. I added sub-tasks to plan.
my broad category of tasks to
prioritize every step being
completed with maximum Excerpt from my Action plan
accuracy. I also added the
associated success categories
and criterions in a separate
column to ensure that the work
being done was relevant to my
learning and product goal while
MY LEARNINGS
Videos
&

Diagra
ms
 TAKEAWAYS FROM
LEARNING GOAL
I learnt a lot of new skills and applied various past existing knowledge in
completing my learning goal. Critical Thinking and Research were couple
of the ATL Skills I developed over the process of completing my learning
goal. I showcased my research while I was searching on for my learning
goal as well as using my learning goal to decide my product. Also,
watching videos on how to integrate and connect different materials
together was a way of representing my research skills. On the other
hand, my critical thinking skills were mainly applied when I was stuck on
a video and had trouble understanding it. Playing around with the
software made me think critically on what could be the possible solution
For me, I would say I was able to andachieve
workmy learning goal to a great extent. of course there were some
on it.
parts where I felt that I did not have enough time to know everything about the language and I needed to
re-watch and re work more hands on playing around with the code. Overall, I achieved my learning goal
and developed new skills and knowledge through my experiences, failures and successes.
Based on my opinion, I had far more failures than
successes at the start of my learning goal but gradually as
I progressed, I started to grasp enough idea on the topic
that by the end of the whole journey, I had more successes
than failures. Majority of my successes include learning a
new skill and finding out solutions for any problems I faced
while learning the language such as debugging problems
and writing the correct code. For my failures, I was
struggling to even download and setup the software
because this was my first time actually doing some hands
on work related to coding.
TAKEAWAYS FROM
PRODUCT GOAL
By far, building this hardware set up was super For my ATL Skills, I developed my
easy for me and I had very less troubles in communication skills and my self-management
connecting the wires and materials than I had skills but of course I learnt more hands on skills
coding the whole thing. For my victories, I was in the process of my product. I also learnt
super easily able to make this and learn new more various things about the circuits and hardware
hands on skills and work experience as a beginner. materials. I showcased my communication
For my struggles, it was not related to the building skills by consulting my teachers, peers and
itself but rather it was collecting the parts required parents on where I could find the materials and
for this. I had to search within my school such as developed my self-management skill as I
science and robotics classes and consult my managed my time using the action plan to
teachers where I could find all the othe rrequired work on this product and get it ready by the
stuff. due date
I was intrigued by my own process of building this
hardware setup. It was a lot of research and hands
on work on connecting the wires to the correct place
with the correct type of wire but as every coin has
two sides, the other side of it was being creative and
imaginative while making this. It was interesting to
build and I was invested while doing this. After this, I
learnt how the hardware machinery is made and how
much hard work and different systems are put in to
make something work.
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