Good Morning everyone, such an exciting day and what a way to start your week. Wake up that brilliant mind of yours for we are bout to share with you our first ever project and that being the automatic irrigation system. Buckle up, and be ready to be amazed.
Over the course of the years in Africa farming has been considered among the very major means of income and food among the many African dwellers, in Tanzania it has even been more official and important after the 4th president of Tanzania Dr Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete introduced a campaign knows as 'kilimo kwanza' during his elections campaigns. knowing that farming is that important in our country we as innovators and people desperately trying to help our community we came up with a system that will benefit the agricultural sector in our country and that's where the 'automatic irrigation system' came up and we knew from right then that the project was going to change not only our lives for helping others but the lives of many small and large scale farmers in Tanzania and we knew that the system was just going to be the beginning of an era, the era of opportunity and greatness. where young minds having a chance to bring the future right up to our homes. The system was designed to have the function of automatically irrigate the fields without being monitored by anyone. All you have to do is connect the circuit to the water pump and it does the rest. that's where our journey started.
THE JOURNEY TO THE MAKING
As young minds in this fields and this being our first project ever we had to go through a series of researches before we could do anything, we had a system to make but still had no idea where to start. after consulting a group of engineers and other experts we knew the first step would be the making of a circuit. for any electronic system to work the circuit is certainly the most important part of them all, here is where you give the system its purpose and function. with the help of our engineer Mr Hassan we manage to come up with a rather complicated enough circuit to make our system work
With a little bit of programming and coding we manage to put our circuit to work the way we wanted it to work and just after a couple of months of determination and hardworking our fully functioning system was ready to surprise us and it was the most beautiful thing we had ever seen after all that hardworking, and it payed off. nobody thought we could do it at first but damn did it feel good to prove them wrong.
-CHALLENGES
In any projects there is certainly gonna be many challenges and for us starters especially they are actually inevitable. among the many challenge we faced are ;
Time, this may not seem much but for students who try to perform well in their class time was always gonna be a challenge to us. we had to spend a lot of our weekends working on a system that we weren't even sure that it is gonna work anyways and balancing the time for school and our extra curricular activity was among the major problems, but we managed to overcome this by being efficient and the love for what we were doing was always the key to our success.
Equipment, for a scientific project like this we needed some tools that some we had never heard of and weren't available in Tanzania and had to buy them from other nearby countries and some we had to make for our self. for example we had to make our own adapter using rectification so we can generate the amount of voltage we wanted for our particular system to work, with the help of our experts and our school board we were able to overcome the equipment problem money-wise and tech-wise
Experience, at some point we all new this was gonna be a major problem to us. inexperience led to many more working ours, failure at times before we manage to perform a certain task. but we took it all as a challenge and because we had hope and vision, this was able to be overcame and every time we created a circuit and failed, we got right back up the next day with a new one and fail again up until it comes up right. and that is just before another failure comes up and then we had to spend another extra time working trying to make things right. But we never give up and we certainly made it.
LESSON FOR EVERYONE
You never know what you are capable of up until you step up and do what you wanna do and test yourself to the limits. Do what seemed to be impossible is all it took to awaken our minds and to know what we can do and work for more is just the beginning of our long and unfinished journey to greatness in Zanzibar and Tanzania at large.
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