Author: Teo Reyes

(Forgive my Grammatical mistakes)

On this trip I have learned a few things that are essential to a good scientist: number one ALWAYS TAKE NOTES, keep a clean area, and take consideration with what other people say to you. Anyways, in the start of this long long long trip that never seemed to ended I…, blah blah blah lets skip that, well the very first time I ever laid eyes on a water quality testing kit I thought it was a bunch of mambo gumbo because it seemed impossible to use with all these crazy things like ph, Ni, Iron, wait what iron in the water that’s crazy!!! (Don’t worry we were all there at one point)

I first tested ph, because that is the basic one, while I was running the test I figured out what ph ment on a scale from 0-14. It’s equal to 0 is no chemicals(bad) and 14 is a ton of chemicals(bad), and 7 is the middle so it’s the best(good). It’s weird huh like some chemicals are actually good for you, and that it’s really unhealthy to have no chemicals. well anyways as I was saying that, hold on what was I saying oh yeah the test(I have short term memory). It’s extremely fun to run a test on water you just have to be really careful with what you’re handling, like making really crisp measurements and not shaking to hard. When I was testing for the first time I never made any notes on the rain from last night, THE DATE, AND EVEN THE TIME!!! Yeah I really was a lazy butt back then, when I started to test more and my mom started to teach me more about how thing work in the science world. later on I started to do well but it just wasn’t as fun as I thought, hold on I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT THE PROJECT!!!

I guess it started around the fourth month of traveling or so, when I started to think about it I want to make it into a app because that it is a whole lot easier to access then a webpage. I still had roughly the same goal I have now just accepted then I want a awesome video game and a more advanced setup(Those things are hard to do:( ). when I was doing a google sprint for my project I was still trying to figure out what I was doing. many ideas came to mind like me sharing all the data for everyone, which means I’m traveling the world again! but that would be way too hard even if I had traveled the world again.

So I started to narrow in on this idea were other people enter data for themselves and for others, like testing the tap water in your area, and maybe even small water bodies. I decided on that and I took off with that idea because it was a cool concept and it was a awesome idea to get people thinking about the water in their neighborhood. While taking my tests I started to run tests on ph, ni, phs, do, ba; I chose these things because back then i thought they were the most useful ones to me.

when I got to the italian alps I really switched from app to website because that is really when I realized how crazy the app idea was. Still i was going overboard like I wanted to add a if fishable and swimmable because i thought that might be cool which it is just that it is hard to get a standard for those things. I really started to get a grip on the website when I was in morocco because I was starting to put things on the website.  I had started with a basic layout where there are two pages, one is a introduction the other is a map page where it shows the quality of the water in every place that I went too(does not mean I took a test).
When I finally started to master running test was at the  year mark because I started to take notes on everything that I did  besides what was happening during the test because I did not think it was necessary even to this day.

 Why pollution is bad

Pollution is miserable thing because when people put waste into the ocean like trash, oil, and gasses. Fish will think that trash is food and eat it or they will get tangled in it. When there are oil leaks fish are unable to breathe with all the oil there, it also destroys the coral reef sounding it. The reason why we should care about every living thing on this earth is because it has a very big position in the food chain that can affect everyone including humans. For instants if the ants die out who will eat all the dead animals and dead insects. The world would be covered in dead things, and many animals that relied on ants for food would die out.

Care For Everyone

There are many people in the world that don’t care what happens in 50 years they only care what they have now. They don’t mind the fact that there own grandchildren might suffer because of what they have caused to the world that we have today. People also don’t care if they step on others so that they rise up, what I mean is that people are okay with stealing from others as long as there wealth goes up. People in this world are very selfish and should stop only caring about themselves If we want to keep our world a clean place we have to start caring for others and showing people what is need to be done.  

I have created a website that allows you to see the quality of your water and determine whether your water is safe to drink.  I also have many other things like a map that lets anyone put in their data with data points. I am currently twelve years old and I am traveling around the world with my family for a year, each of my sibling and I have a world project that we are doing.

My project is geared towards trying to help all living things in general, for instance when my mom went swimming on a beach she didn’t know that it was not safe to swim in. She later found out that it was surely polluted with trash because they saw many hospital needles, blood bags, and other trash related things. My goal for my website is to help kids learn how to take water samples and ensure there the safety of the water.

Since I was a little kid I have always wanted to help my mom run tests because it seemed really interesting and fun. Now that I get to do it myself I would like to give other people the opportunity. Also That is why I have decided that I want to create a webpage that allows you to determine if the water is clean either by looking at information that someone else put down or by putting down your own water test results.