Investigation

MYP QUESTION: How can future constructions or devices improve the quality of our life?

1.Personal interpretation of the MYP question.  The future constructions and devices will produce changes and improvements to the way we do things, we facilitate our work, improve our environment, will optimize the scarce resources available to us, improve our knowledge and improve the interaction between humans. We save time, effort, and resources. Lengthen our life time. 2.Personal meaning about the environment concept. My concept is that can transform the environment making it better to live, optimizing resources, avoiding waste, reducing risks, detecting dangers in time, discovering new ways to control and eliminate diseases, helping to improve crops, helping preserve the fauna, flora, air water and human life. It will take us to new ways of interacting with the environment. 3.Personal meaning of sustainability.  Future buildings and developments help to preserve our way of life, preserve our environment. With the knowledge gained may develop new ways of doing things more efficiently and effectively being able to achieve more sustainable environments and do not affect life on earth without or else the better. They will make that can optimize natural resources renewable and nonrenewable efficiently and not contaminated. You can also bring positive changes but negative if they are well used.

4.Personal meaning of a system concept
It is a whole composed of several parts or members that relate to each other to achieve a goal.

5. A brief explanation about the relationship between any environment and the technology. Technology can improve our environment by combining elements that help to optimize time and resources we have. For example: TV and computer at home The TV and the computer is very important at my home because they are a media of entertainment, work, for investigating, making projects, homework and playing. 6. A written explanation about the structure and the functionality of a technology construction or device that can improve the life style in the future. Nowadays there are many areas of crops that have been invaded by guerrillas with landmines, seeking to harm the population. This causes farmers to leave the countryside to the cities and do not grow on one side causing food shortages and other social problems in cities. The device I want to present help clear the fields to cultivate safe and protecting the lives of those who make this work. It’s a robot that would help the farmers and the army for detecting antipersonnel mines.

7. A list of specifications about the construction or device mentioned before. My device is composed by: 2 mechanic hands, a camera, a bomb detector, a platform for disarming the bomb or mine, caterpillar wheels, a shovel and avoice handling device.