Design Brief Process

We as students have to design a bridge that is able to withstand the amount of 50 lbs. We must sketch a drawing that is either beam, arch, or a suspension bridge. Our bridge must be 12 inches long and be constructed of toothpicks and Popsicle sticks. If bridges are not strong enough to obtain a certain weight they become a problem to the public due to it being a safety hazard. The bridge also must be the same size as the sketch drawn on the graph paper. Another material we will be able to use is glue. The glue will make the sticks connect with each other in a way that they support on another.

CNN Week 11

In "Plaintiff blasts deal in Silicon Valley poaching case" by Chris Isidore a class action plaintiff in the Silicon Valley anti-poaching lawsuit has asked a judge to reject a proposed settlement, claiming it benefits the lawyers and big tech firms more than the workers who brought the case. "The tentative settlement, if it stands, amounts to big profits for plaintiffs' counsel, insulation from real liability for the defendants and locks in significant losses for the [affected tech workers]," Michael Devine wrote Sunday in a letter to the judge overseeing the case. At issue is a proposed $324 million settlement in the lawsuit against Silicon Valley tech giants. A class of 64,000 tech workers say the companies conspired to not make job offers to one another's employees.The improper anti-poaching agreement significantly reduced wages in Silicon Valley, the suit alleged.

CNN Week 10

In "Bill Gates No Longer Microsoft's Biggest Shareholder" it states that in the past two days, Gates has sold nearly 8 million shares of Microsoft, bringing down his total to roughly 330 million. That puts him behind Microsoft's former CEO Steve Ballmer who owns 333 million shares. Gates reclaims title of world's richest billionaire. Ballmer, who was Microsoft's CEO until earlier this year, was one of Gates' first hires.
It's a passing of the torch for Gates who has always been the largest single owner of his company's stock. Gates now spends his time and personal fortune helping run the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation.
The foundation has spent $28.3 billion fighting hunger and poverty since its inception back in 1997.

CNN Week 9

Hackers have attacked the government agencies, defense contractors, energy companies and banks by exploiting the software flaw in Internet Explorer.Among those still using Windows XP are the Defense Department, the IRS, and bank ATMs. That's a problem, because Microsoft has taken its 12-year-old operating system off life-support, ceasing security updates. It's easy to ignore Internet security scares, especially when there's a deluge of news about them. In the month of April alone, we were bombarded with news about the pervasive Heartbleed bug, a massive AOL hack and the Internet Explorer Glitch. A typical power plant, for example, makes expensive investments on equipment that's meant to last decades. It's common to find 1970s-era software on turbines, Kennedy said. That's a danger.