Roller Coaster Road Trip

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  1. Hi everyone, my name is taylor.
  2. Um This is my presentation for our amusement park um project.
  3. Uh I have named this around the midwest roller coaster road trip. 2022.
  4. Um I thought the plan it was kind of fun for that but
  5. anyways
  6. um so meet the crew, this is myself,
  7. my friend Georgie and my cousin and friend Jasmine.
  8. Um The upper
  9. left corner. That photo did not want to straighten out so
  10. it decided it looked best sideways.
  11. Um These are the people who are going on my
  12. imaginary trip.
  13. The first thing I want to touch on is our budget.
  14. Um the initial budget that I have um per person is about $560.
  15. That leaves um about 65 each for travel which would
  16. include the gas and any tolls that we find.
  17. Then about 120 in hotel costs.
  18. Um we plan on staying in four different hotels come along our road trip,
  19. most in between
  20. the amusement parks,
  21. but the last one um in champaign Illinois being on our way home that drive
  22. from Holiday World to Black Hawk is a little bit of a long one.
  23. Mhm.
  24. And then lastly the best part is $375 for the amusement parks and food estimates.
  25. Um this was kind of I
  26. definitely to round up so you always have
  27. more than enough money rather than not enough money.
  28. Um So this is just a rough estimate on how much
  29. food we'd spend at the park plus the um all day passes
  30. next. Um just to run through the rough itinerary
  31. we planned on
  32. leaving from Blackhat College which is obviously in Moline Illinois.
  33. Our first trip would be too
  34. Grady's family
  35. fun park in bloomington tonight.
  36. The plan is we would leave Blackhawk at about seven a.m.
  37. And it would be about 2.5 hour drive to Grady's.
  38. Um getting us there at about 9:30.
  39. We would spend a majority of our day at the park um
  40. Leaving about 2:00 head towards six flags
  41. in Gurnee Illinois.
  42. We would get to Gurney about
  43. six p.m.
  44. so then our plan is to get one of the hotels that I had mentioned prior um being the
  45. Hampton N.
  46. Um
  47. From Six flags. We'd then start the next morning at eight a.m. Stay until about 3 30.
  48. And that gives us a full day.
  49. Um As you'll see in the future slides,
  50. six flags has the most parks out of the uh four amusement parks that I have chosen.
  51. Um
  52. From six flags we would go towards King's island
  53. dr until about 7:30 p.m. To Thorntown indiana.
  54. Um And stay the night there and then leave Thorntown
  55. at about seven AM and drive to King's Island,
  56. arriving at about 10 a.m.
  57. We would stay at the park until about three
  58. and make our way towards Holiday World
  59. um arrived to the hotel which I love everything
  60. about holiday World because it's in santa claus indiana.
  61. So we're also staying at santa's lodge, pretty much my dream vacation,
  62. anything christmas related.
  63. Um
  64. we would try to get to the park about 9 30 stay until three.
  65. Um and then from there we would head towards champaign
  66. Illinois because that's about the halfway point between um,
  67. the Holiday world location and Black Hawk,
  68. So about five day trip total.
  69. Um so here are some travel stats.
  70. Uh the total trip is about 1000, 237 miles.
  71. It'll be about five days for four amusement parks and like I said,
  72. six flags is the largest with 15 active rollercoasters.
  73. Kings Island is a close second with 14 Holiday world has five Grady's only has two,
  74. So six flags, 6 flags quick stats.
  75. I
  76. uh
  77. uploaded a picture of the raging boll.
  78. It's actually the tallest and longest one at six flags raging at a
  79. height of 202 ft and then a length of 5000 and 57 ft.
  80. Um The most inversions
  81. for roller coasters is actually a tie between their batman
  82. roller coaster and the X flight both having five inversions.
  83. Kings Island stats has a bit more um,
  84. diversity out of the 14 active coasters.
  85. The tallest one is the orient at 287 ft and
  86. the longest one would be the beast at 7359 ft.
  87. I've included a picture of the banshee which has the most inversions at seven
  88. overall um for the project slash class reflection,
  89. I thought I would just add it into the end of this presentation um as it states,
  90. my expectations were that this class is going to be a bit easier than it was.
  91. Um Math has always come pretty easy to me, but
  92. I underestimated how I have not actually taken in a math class while um
  93. On top of this being an eight week course,
  94. I think that really made it a bit more difficult for me personally.
  95. Um I believe that if I would have taken a full 16 week course, I wouldn't have felt so
  96. underprepared and overwhelmed with a couple of the units,
  97. uh the units I struggled with the most were
  98. the standard deviation um and this last finance unit.
  99. Mhm.
  100. Um
  101. I've never really been a huge fan of math,
  102. but it was really fun to do this project um kind of make a fun little road trip,
  103. my friends and I actually,
  104. the two that I included in the imaginary one or the two that I would take on
  105. a real one with me um and we try to plan stuff out all the time,
  106. not necessarily for amusement parks but for
  107. fun little trips to sightsee
  108. um in general, so
  109. it's fun to take what you learn
  110. in math class and use it towards um real life scenarios
  111. and same with the finance unit and being able to,
  112. you know, look into credit cards and um
  113. house
  114. mortgages and loans and
  115. um I haven't had to take any loans out yet,
  116. so it's kind of nice to be able to learn the math on that.
  117. Um But overall the final project was really fun and I
  118. can't think of anything I would really change about it,
  119. so
  120. thank you so much.