Post on 02-Aug-2020
Mount Cristo Rey Project
03.06.2020
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Bowie High School Denisse Saucedo
Mitzy Correa
Sebastian Salazar
Gary Jones
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Table of Contents
1.Background
- The Team - Idea
2.Mount Cristo Rey
- Cultural Background - Historical Background
3.The Design
- Designing Softwares - Resting Areas - Solar Panels - The Cross - Lights and Barriers
1.Background
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The Team
Our team members are Mitzy Correa, Sebastian Salazar, Gary Jones, and Denisse
Saucedo.
All the individuals helped with the design, development, and research of the project
"Light Up Mount Cristo Rey".
This team has 3 Seniors and 1 Junior. All of them looking forward to a major within the
STEM fields.
Denisse Saucedo:
My name is Denise Gabriela Saucedo, I am part of the robotics team and my favorite hobby is do 3D animations. My teacher, and also a coach from the Robotics Team, give us the chance
to participate in this competition, which I found very interesting for me because there I can use
my knowledge as a 3D animator, and why not, learn from there new things and pass a good
time as a team. When we start to work with Unity, it was a little difficult for us because we never
work before with this program but what I like is that we have the initiative to learn, and we give
our best. Be part of this team and this competition is an honor because we are doing better as a
team, and we learn a lot from new things that can be very important and helpful to know in our
future.
Gary Jones:
As a member of the group for the SunCity Challenge, I feel like I have learned a lot in what
goes into developing a realistic game. Such things include making models, coding, and a lot of
debugging, as well as dividing work within the team for efficiency with the already occupied time
we have.
Sebastian Salazar:
At heart, I am a programmer and I have always been fascinated with computers and their
programming. At the same time, I am an artist by blood it runs in my family and I still enjoy
creating mesmerizing compositions. This project was an excellent way to combine them both.
Mitzy Correa:
I am a follower of technology .when my teacher told me about the SunCity Challenge, I had no
idea about how Unity worked. This project helped me mainly to learn. Therefore I enjoyed every
part of it.
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IDEA
Our vision for the project is to integrate rest areas in the path to the top of
the mountain. Each rest area would have a set of solar panels that would
give energy to various lights set throughout the path and at the cross itself.
Each rest area would also act as a learning module, in which the history
and some facts of the mountain would be showcased.
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2. Mount Cristo Rey
Cultural Background
El Paso, along with its neighbor city Juarez, share a strong religious culture, which
emphasizes on Christianity and Catholicism. With this in mind, while the team was looking for
an emblematic monument of El Paso, Mount Cristo Rey came to mind.
A simple, yet very symbolic sculpture made by Urbici Soler, is one of the best ways to
introduce solar energy into the community of El Paso.
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Historical Background
As the vision of Fr. Lourdes Costa, a local parish priest that, in 1933, looked at his
back window and saw that the Cerro de los Muleros (Now known as Mount Cristo Rey)
needed an erecting, glorious monument at the top.
After sharing the idea with the congregation, they pledged to get a wooden cross,
that later turned into an iron cross, until they got the sculptor for the real cross.
Within the congregation, they created a path in order to get all the material and the
people at the top safely in 1934.
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In 1937, Costa met with the Bishop to get a sculptor, which ended up being one of the
Bishop's friends Urbici Soler. Which ended up creating a clay model that was approved by the
end of 1937.
After getting the materials, Soler worked on it and finished by October 1939.
3.The Design
Designing Softwares
We used a variety of programs in order to obtain our final product. Each member was related to
one of the programs in a different level, which gave the entire project a variety in its resources
and design.
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The programs used were:
Maya (Modeling Software)
Inventor (Modeling Software)
Blender (Modelling Software)
Unity (Simulation Make)
REST AREA
The Rest Areas will have around 16 solar panels each. That will come up to 48 solar
panels for the entire project. The energy obtained will be stored in high efficiency batteries that
will be close to each station.
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In the rest areas there will be panels with facts, history, and information of Mount
Cristo Rey.
My design came from this futuristic construction in snowy weather. I changed the
design by making it bigger, in case of massive visits.
Solar Panels
Solar Energy works by the excitation of protons, which create DC current, caused by
the solar energy that hits the earth. However, current solar panels are able to get up to 20% of said energy. Nonetheless, El Paso has enough sunny days (297 sunny days a year) in
order to fulfill the energy needed.
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The Cross
In order to innovate in the sculpture itself, we will be adding lights around it. This will
create a wonderful view for all the people using the freeway at night.
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Lights and Barriers
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Another issue with the mountain is that is not safe for everyone. Thus, we produced the
idea of adding barriers to make the path straight and easier to follow. Furthermore, we will be
adding lights for all the path. This will help anyone that may have run late on a visit to be safe
on his way down.
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3D Models
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