Isabella-Writeup

In hopes of trying to think of ideas, our group collectively decided to spend a whole innovation period brainstorming through interesting books and objects which we were able to find around our house. We had old toys and knickknacks, books, and magazines. Although we were able to come up with many ideas, there was one specific idea which stood out to all of us. This was the idea to design an exhibit inspired by a short, one-page article we found in this September’s issue of National Geographic. The article entitled “Shake it Off” outlines the research done by an engineering student at Georgia Tech named Andrew Dickerson on the mechanism furry animals use to dry themselves off – shaking! Dickerson used slow motion videos of different animals to measure their oscillations and found that the smaller the animal is, the faster it shakes.