Speech Preparation and Execution

I wrote the script for my speech throughout this week and began filming for my TEDTalk today. I started my recording with a dramatic opening about the environmental crisis leftover from the industrial expansion of humans, which transitions into the reasoning for my project, which is to make my Flywheel Energy Storage device more efficient to combat the battery in a desperate attempt to save the world that we live in. The majority of my speech is explanations, since my project has a lot of depth into college-level electrical engineering, and so a very time consuming part of writing it was to make sure the language I used was not overly complicated for a non-scientific individual would understand. I also go into a brief but informative description of my results about the different core designs, as well as how I created and improved on my design. This will also be including the designs that I have planned for the future on how I plan to make the zero-gravity to work, as I would like to use this research that I have learned to help my future, rather than it just being another project that I forget about. Since my final project is completed, I am just going to be working on editing my TEDTalk and then sending it out to an adult to have them review it.

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