Science Fair Research Plan:
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Project Title:
Why Can't I Get a Signal in Here?
Purpose:
To learn which building materials block WiFi signals the most.
Problem:
My mom is the Educational Technology Facilitator for Heathrow Elementary School. She is one of the people in charge of setting up WiFi at her school. They were trying to set up classrooms where two to four classrooms would share a wifi router. This worked great inside buildings where four classrooms would share one WiFi router between cinder-block walls. But, when they tried to have only two rooms share a WiFi router within a concretable, the signal would not go through the wall leaving one of the two rooms with no WiFi at all. Now each room in the concretables is equipped with its own wifi router because they could not get the signal to pass between the walls. What was different about the building materials used to build the concretables? Which building materials should be avoided in buildings where WiFi signals need to travel between walls?