Dakota+Hooker

My name is Dakota Hooker and I attend A.R. Johnson Magnet School. After high school, I plan to attend USC Aiken and obtain a degree in Nuclear Engineering. After I receive my degree, I would like to start my career at SRS.

**Rover**
This task was not very difficult, but I did have a few problems with my final design. My model initially had pretty much the same design as what the procedure instructed us to build. The square wheels on the back of my rover would just spin out and not actually move the rover. In an attempt to fix this, I trimmed my wheels down with scissors and also cut each corner. After making this modification, my rover still spun out. Now I realized that it did not have enough weight to hold it down while the wheels were spinning, so I taped some popsicle sticks to the base of my rover. When I tested it again, the wheels did not spin out, like it normally would've, and it moved.

**Kicker**
I found this task to be more challenging than the last. I had to restart many times to find the design that I liked and thought could work. I finally chose a design and started constructing it with the help of Kamil Molwani. The design will be completed on tomorrow, March 29.