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What We've Been Doing From Lab 3 to Lab 4

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This week, we have been pretty lax with our posts. We updated and finished the background material page with the addition of the Stormwater Greenstreets and Rain Gardens posts. We also updated the links page with some of our current favorites. Before the lab, we decided to work on becoming familiar with SketchUp so that during lab, we can start designing and building our structures. Hopefully, by the end of the lab, we will have learned how to overlay google images onto SketchUp correctly in order to complete at least one of the structures. We also updated the videos and tutorials for newbies to SketchUp so go ahead and check it out!

Below are some pictures of our progress!





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