Week 36: 6/2/17 - 6/9/17
The Final Finishing Week!!
My favorite experience in Makers this year would be the arcade project. This was the first project where I learned to familiarize myself with Sprout and created a 3-D alien. I also saw how talented and dedicated many of my group members were, from creating the artwork behind our pinball machine to creatively using pins for the walls to guide the ball's direction. Seeing other makers during the Arcade was also quite astonishing, especially the group that created a fun game for throwing frisbees.
I would like to thank all the people in my group projects throughout the year for cooperating and creatively developing all the fascinating inventions and creations in the first ever Maker's class in LPS.
My favorite experience in Makers this year would be the arcade project. This was the first project where I learned to familiarize myself with Sprout and created a 3-D alien. I also saw how talented and dedicated many of my group members were, from creating the artwork behind our pinball machine to creatively using pins for the walls to guide the ball's direction. Seeing other makers during the Arcade was also quite astonishing, especially the group that created a fun game for throwing frisbees.
I would like to thank all the people in my group projects throughout the year for cooperating and creatively developing all the fascinating inventions and creations in the first ever Maker's class in LPS.
Week 35: 5/28/17 - 6/2/17
While the Weebly requirements have stated that I am supposed to shout out one specific presentation that I found remarkable this week, the truth is that I found each and one of the presentations this week to be equally remarkable in their unique ways. I believe that the presentations this week represent the culmination of hard work that each Maker has dedicated to changing the world one step at a time.
For more information about what projects I am talking about, feel free to redirect yourself to madeinhayward.weebly.com.
For more information about what projects I am talking about, feel free to redirect yourself to madeinhayward.weebly.com.
Week 34: 5/15/17-5/19/17
We printed our stickers and they came out exactly how we had intended! (in terms of design)
However, I do feel that since we printed from free sticker paper and not traditional shiny sticker material, that this will probably not sell well for $1. It also looks as if we drew on the paper as opposed to actually printing it out. Amidst these ailing conditions, I hope that we will be able to raise sufficient money for eliminating food deserts by the end of the month. |
Week 32: 4/29/17-5/5/17
Photoshop Time!
Our plan as of 4/30 is to sell stickers all with this design. We will money through these hundreds of stickers and help alleviate the pains and strains that food desert communities face on a daily basis.
Our plan as of 4/30 is to sell stickers all with this design. We will money through these hundreds of stickers and help alleviate the pains and strains that food desert communities face on a daily basis.
Week 31: 4/23/17-4/29/17
Week 30: 4/16/17-4/23/17
Feedback:
They told us to elaborate on our absolute generic idea of the T-Shirt, and unanimously asked us how would we fund the money to buy and sell them. So we said, you know what, under the slight push of Keating, we decided to focus on food deserts and raise money to replace a local one with a grocery store. Who knows where this will lead us?? |
Week 27: 3/18/17-3/25/17
Shift of Focus: The Final Project!
This week, we commence our grueling journey towards the end of the year. To start, here is a debatably swag picture overlay of my group.
To fill in the space below more effectively, I will write vertically.
We will
be
working on
T-Shirts
to address
the issue
of hunger
in the world.
(The space to the right was left blank on purpose.)
Week 26: 3/11/17-3/18/17
Change Finished Bearing Fruit
The finished and polished product looks fit for children interaction and entertainment. We hope that children of all ages will be given the opportunity to experience our game in its greatest essence and learn from it. We have our theme colors, purple and yellow, which is part of the visceral aspect, and we hope the kids will be able to cooperate and compete effectively, the behavioral aspect.
We also finished our commercial, which was a grueling process but ultimately worth it.
The finished and polished product looks fit for children interaction and entertainment. We hope that children of all ages will be given the opportunity to experience our game in its greatest essence and learn from it. We have our theme colors, purple and yellow, which is part of the visceral aspect, and we hope the kids will be able to cooperate and compete effectively, the behavioral aspect.
We also finished our commercial, which was a grueling process but ultimately worth it.
Week 25: 3/4/17-3/11/17
Change Bearing Fruit
Our new plan seems to be going a lot smoother. We no longer need to fuss over dirty green carpets or 3-D golf clubs pieces that will not stick. Other than the occasional bout of balderdash emitted from a certain group member, our project is going smoothly and the pictures below will attest to that.
Our new plan seems to be going a lot smoother. We no longer need to fuss over dirty green carpets or 3-D golf clubs pieces that will not stick. Other than the occasional bout of balderdash emitted from a certain group member, our project is going smoothly and the pictures below will attest to that.
Week 24: 2/18/17-3/4/17
CHANGE
Life is all about change. There is no innovation, advancement, or revolutionary achievement without change. As a result, it becomes crucial during a project that is treading rough grounds to apply changes, or modifications. This week, our group decided to change our toy in its entirety. Instead of creating a golf course, we will create a game called Royal Ball. The point of the game is to imitate or invent your own trickshot while throwing a 3-D printed ball into a box. We hope our plan will go well.
Life is all about change. There is no innovation, advancement, or revolutionary achievement without change. As a result, it becomes crucial during a project that is treading rough grounds to apply changes, or modifications. This week, our group decided to change our toy in its entirety. Instead of creating a golf course, we will create a game called Royal Ball. The point of the game is to imitate or invent your own trickshot while throwing a 3-D printed ball into a box. We hope our plan will go well.
Week 23: 2/11/17-2/18/17
The Advancement Continues
For the Final Project, Troyer, Pablo, and I are currently working together to plan to create T-Shirts to raise awareness regarding the increasing issues of world hunger and food desparity. While the few T-Shirts created may seem insignificant, the message and urge to action that these shirts will induce are imperative in the fight against hunger.
For the Final Project, Troyer, Pablo, and I are currently working together to plan to create T-Shirts to raise awareness regarding the increasing issues of world hunger and food desparity. While the few T-Shirts created may seem insignificant, the message and urge to action that these shirts will induce are imperative in the fight against hunger.
Week 22: 2/4/17-2/11/17
As of now, our plan is to create a golf course using the green "carpet," and applying obstacles like castles and windmills to challenge our young players. The bottom left is the unrepresentatively shoddy looking box where we're storing everything, and the 2 pictures to the right depict the cylinders we will piece together to form a golf club.
Technological innovation at work.
Week 21: 1/29/17-2/4/17
Of course, without a plan of action, who knows what form of chaos and confusion may arise? That is why this week, my group and I came up with this plan of action below, as a foundation to bridge ourselves to success.
Week 20: 1/22/17-1/29/17
This week, our team cleaned up, dried, and vacuumed the golf map, dug out a pool noodle, and 3-D printed out a 3.25 inch golf ball. The greatest challenge was trying to figure out how to dig out the pool noodle. To the right, we see a certain Karlo making a daring attempt to carve out the next piece of pool noodle.
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Week 19: 1/15/17-1/21/17
As our new group was coming up with ideas for the toy project, I finally understood why the oxymoron "less is more" makes sense. We came up with some 10+ ideas, ranging from coloring books, slingshots, self-assembled origami figures, and shuffleboards. We tried combining various ideas, all to no avail. Ultimately, we ended up deciding on the simplest idea we had: a mini-golf course with moveable obstacles.
The above picture is symbolism of our attempt to combine all of our ideas.
The above picture is symbolism of our attempt to combine all of our ideas.
Week 18: 1/5/17-1/15/17
Prototyping our toy project ->
Prototyping our toy project ->
Week 16: 12/11-12/16
Half a Year's Worth of Reflections (Warning: Lots of Words)
1. What is your favorite part about working in the Maker & Design Studio?
This class feels like stress-relief, as this is indeed the one class in the day that I can actually stand up, walk around, and simultaneously observe the classroom grow with projects just sprouting everywhere every single day. I come to the class the next day and I see projects around the classroom undergo a new dynamic transition, going from a class of piled woodslabs to a conglomerate of juxtaposed boxes with a few painted ones dotting the landscape; indeed, it is this growth everyday that I see that is my favorite part of this class.
2. What have you learned about yourself through participating in the Learning Studio?
This class has enhanced my belief that I can and should think outside of the box not just while making my wooden box but also while dealing with a variety of real-life experiences, and the next big choices to make. I think that by keeping an open-mindset, this helps me see the world in a different dimension, one where my ideas are not in my head, but manifested in the world around me.
3. How does your teacher help you be a better maker or designer? What kind of experience does he or she create in the Learning Studio?
Both Ms. Rivera and Mr. Keating provide myself and my fellow Makers with a great deal of freedom and trust, by designing each project in a way that fosters collaboration with my mesa and peers, as well as a way to interact creatively with the materials around us. In concrete terms, Mr. Keating has also taught me how to use a Jigsaw, Miter Saw, plug the drillbit into a drill, and the collaborative environment is also surfaced in the many times when I get help from my mesa, like when my friends help me clamp the wooden box when two hands aren't enough.
4. What do you think are the most important values or character traits a maker or designer should have?
The most valuable and indispensable traits are 1.) the willingness to help others out and 2.) the belief that the first time is never the best time and the following trials will always be improveable. I have benefitted countless times from my mesa group in developing ideas and trying out new machines, like the 3-D printer right behind my seat. I have also benefitted from seeing ideas not working out, and brainstorming newer ideas based off of what I learned the first time, like when I shifted from making a teapot to a dimsum basket during the light project. There is always a more innovative method.
5. Imagine there is a new student in your class who has never been exposed to a making environment. What advice would you give them to be successful in the Learning Studio?
Be prepared to make something more than once. You will make something, feel inadequate about it, and make something completely different and you will subsequently decide to change your design yet again. It comes down to collaborating and brainstorming with individuals around you, and taking the risks to create what you want, not limited to what person X thinks is possible.
6. Has your experience in the Learning Studio impacted your goals for the future? If so, how?
Among many professions, I have often been intrigued by designs of skyscrapers, cathedrals, and especially the newest innovative architechtural designs of slanted or curled up buildings often employed in skylistic museums like during the World Expo in Shanghai a few years ago. Being able to make my own versions of lamps and familiarizing myself with how to shape wood in the most basic forms has reminded me of my interest in architechtural design. This experience in Learning Studios has motivated me to bring the idea of designing landscapes, cars, and building back to the front of my mind, something I will want to delve into during college and beyond.
7. Have you made or designed anything for another person? What was it? What did you learn about that person through designing something for them?
During the Arcade, I worked with a few peers to design an alien on a 3D-Printer for our arcade. I remember last year I would constantly hear people talk about that new 3-D Printer in "Mr. Moos's class" and to be able to actually see up close the way how it works is no less than very intriguing.
8. Has making and designing changed the way you think about the world around you? If so, how?
When I was a little child, my parents would tell me stuff like how when they were young, they didn't have microwaves, television, computers, or any of the technology we see today and take for granted. I would also look at my cupboards and drawers and never fail to notice how cleanly cut they were compared to if I had manually cut a piece of wood at home. This made me think of all the manufacturing that goes into each household appliance; it almost seems to me as if each piece of furniture has a story of its own, a journey from the raw fiber, through the factory, and into a shelf in Ikea or Target. Sometimes, I wonder to myself that ironically, a piece of furniture has probably travelled farther around the world than I ever have.
9. Do you find yourself using the skills you use in the Learning Studio in other classes or in other parts of your life? If so, how are you using making and design skills outside of the Learning Studio?
From woodworking to 3-D printing to learning how to make this very Weebly page the most visually appealing, I must say that I have learned a lot about how to push my possibilities and see the very horizon and beyond. In other words, I have learned many life skills, and I want to use these skills of creative building and designing in the future automobiles, gardens, and whatver building may strike my head to morph into reality.
10. What have you made that you are most proud of? What about the project makes you proud?
Each project in this class has tested my strengths and fine-tuned my abilities to the next level. The arcade game trained me to collaborate effectively and the lamp project pushed me to try out new ideas even if they seemed unconventional. To say that I am proud of every single project I've done in this class so far would not be an overstatement. However if I were to choose, I must say that the most recent woodworking project truly taught me a lot of tool-working, from how to place a drillbit into a drill, how to clamp the wood while using wood glue, observing others conducting the Miter saw, to effectively cutting wood with a Jigsaw myself. There is much to learn in this class, and much more that makes me proud.
11. Is making important to you? If so, why?
Everything around me is made or was made by someone in a fragment of history. From the keyboard that I'm typing on right now to the screen you are using to read this, all of this was created by someone who not only had an idea but decided to blow life into that very idea. So yes.
Half a Year's Worth of Reflections (Warning: Lots of Words)
1. What is your favorite part about working in the Maker & Design Studio?
This class feels like stress-relief, as this is indeed the one class in the day that I can actually stand up, walk around, and simultaneously observe the classroom grow with projects just sprouting everywhere every single day. I come to the class the next day and I see projects around the classroom undergo a new dynamic transition, going from a class of piled woodslabs to a conglomerate of juxtaposed boxes with a few painted ones dotting the landscape; indeed, it is this growth everyday that I see that is my favorite part of this class.
2. What have you learned about yourself through participating in the Learning Studio?
This class has enhanced my belief that I can and should think outside of the box not just while making my wooden box but also while dealing with a variety of real-life experiences, and the next big choices to make. I think that by keeping an open-mindset, this helps me see the world in a different dimension, one where my ideas are not in my head, but manifested in the world around me.
3. How does your teacher help you be a better maker or designer? What kind of experience does he or she create in the Learning Studio?
Both Ms. Rivera and Mr. Keating provide myself and my fellow Makers with a great deal of freedom and trust, by designing each project in a way that fosters collaboration with my mesa and peers, as well as a way to interact creatively with the materials around us. In concrete terms, Mr. Keating has also taught me how to use a Jigsaw, Miter Saw, plug the drillbit into a drill, and the collaborative environment is also surfaced in the many times when I get help from my mesa, like when my friends help me clamp the wooden box when two hands aren't enough.
4. What do you think are the most important values or character traits a maker or designer should have?
The most valuable and indispensable traits are 1.) the willingness to help others out and 2.) the belief that the first time is never the best time and the following trials will always be improveable. I have benefitted countless times from my mesa group in developing ideas and trying out new machines, like the 3-D printer right behind my seat. I have also benefitted from seeing ideas not working out, and brainstorming newer ideas based off of what I learned the first time, like when I shifted from making a teapot to a dimsum basket during the light project. There is always a more innovative method.
5. Imagine there is a new student in your class who has never been exposed to a making environment. What advice would you give them to be successful in the Learning Studio?
Be prepared to make something more than once. You will make something, feel inadequate about it, and make something completely different and you will subsequently decide to change your design yet again. It comes down to collaborating and brainstorming with individuals around you, and taking the risks to create what you want, not limited to what person X thinks is possible.
6. Has your experience in the Learning Studio impacted your goals for the future? If so, how?
Among many professions, I have often been intrigued by designs of skyscrapers, cathedrals, and especially the newest innovative architechtural designs of slanted or curled up buildings often employed in skylistic museums like during the World Expo in Shanghai a few years ago. Being able to make my own versions of lamps and familiarizing myself with how to shape wood in the most basic forms has reminded me of my interest in architechtural design. This experience in Learning Studios has motivated me to bring the idea of designing landscapes, cars, and building back to the front of my mind, something I will want to delve into during college and beyond.
7. Have you made or designed anything for another person? What was it? What did you learn about that person through designing something for them?
During the Arcade, I worked with a few peers to design an alien on a 3D-Printer for our arcade. I remember last year I would constantly hear people talk about that new 3-D Printer in "Mr. Moos's class" and to be able to actually see up close the way how it works is no less than very intriguing.
8. Has making and designing changed the way you think about the world around you? If so, how?
When I was a little child, my parents would tell me stuff like how when they were young, they didn't have microwaves, television, computers, or any of the technology we see today and take for granted. I would also look at my cupboards and drawers and never fail to notice how cleanly cut they were compared to if I had manually cut a piece of wood at home. This made me think of all the manufacturing that goes into each household appliance; it almost seems to me as if each piece of furniture has a story of its own, a journey from the raw fiber, through the factory, and into a shelf in Ikea or Target. Sometimes, I wonder to myself that ironically, a piece of furniture has probably travelled farther around the world than I ever have.
9. Do you find yourself using the skills you use in the Learning Studio in other classes or in other parts of your life? If so, how are you using making and design skills outside of the Learning Studio?
From woodworking to 3-D printing to learning how to make this very Weebly page the most visually appealing, I must say that I have learned a lot about how to push my possibilities and see the very horizon and beyond. In other words, I have learned many life skills, and I want to use these skills of creative building and designing in the future automobiles, gardens, and whatver building may strike my head to morph into reality.
10. What have you made that you are most proud of? What about the project makes you proud?
Each project in this class has tested my strengths and fine-tuned my abilities to the next level. The arcade game trained me to collaborate effectively and the lamp project pushed me to try out new ideas even if they seemed unconventional. To say that I am proud of every single project I've done in this class so far would not be an overstatement. However if I were to choose, I must say that the most recent woodworking project truly taught me a lot of tool-working, from how to place a drillbit into a drill, how to clamp the wood while using wood glue, observing others conducting the Miter saw, to effectively cutting wood with a Jigsaw myself. There is much to learn in this class, and much more that makes me proud.
11. Is making important to you? If so, why?
Everything around me is made or was made by someone in a fragment of history. From the keyboard that I'm typing on right now to the screen you are using to read this, all of this was created by someone who not only had an idea but decided to blow life into that very idea. So yes.
Week 15: 12/4-12/11
A Manifestation of Creativity
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Below, you can see nine pictures, aka 9,000 words, that document my progress this week.
A Manifestation of Creativity
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Below, you can see nine pictures, aka 9,000 words, that document my progress this week.
Week 14: 11/26-12/3
On the Origin of Creativity
I feel the most creative in the morning when I am most able to concentrate. I also feel a surge of creativity during the night when I am more prone to think of random ideas. One example of my creativity is my woodworking box design, which you can see below. It is going to be an IPhone box, specifically designed for my new IPhone.
On the Origin of Creativity
I feel the most creative in the morning when I am most able to concentrate. I also feel a surge of creativity during the night when I am more prone to think of random ideas. One example of my creativity is my woodworking box design, which you can see below. It is going to be an IPhone box, specifically designed for my new IPhone.
Week 13: 11/13-11/18
So....It's a "Dim-Sum Basket"!
I spent a lot of time during Learning Labs and classtime to create this finished product. To be honest, in the beginning, I had intended to make a completely different design, a teapot (see Week 6 for my initial design), and when I figured that the trapezoid designs couldn't fit together to form a roughly 3D oval shape, I resorted to making a beehive made up of "onion rings" (see right). However, the cuts turned out sloppy on foamcore so I tried redoing the circles on cardstock. While working and experimenting with it, I ended up deciding not to make them in onion rings altogether, and I ended up with two large circular cardstock sheets and I thought, why don't I stack them on top of each other? I stacked them on top of each other, and made the center slightly slanted. I made designs of hieroglyphs, animals, TV Logos (The Flash), and Chinese city names on the side to make it aesthetically unique. When I topped it off with a circular piece with diamond plaid designs, I finally figured out what this was. I realized that it looked like one of those bamboo "dim sum baskets" and the name has stuck ever since.
Week 11: 10/30-11/5
Arcade Day! Checking out the different games today has been a very fun and enlightening experience. I got throw frisbees, play makeshift pool, and teamed up with Keandre to get the quickest time on a wobbly, circular maze game! Overall, more people visited our game than I had expected, and I learned a lot about how creative people at our school can be. |
Week 8: 10/10-10/15
Group Project In Continuation
Our group project is going at a slow and steady pace. Also, in case you were wondering, that fly on the right survived. :D
Week 7: 9/29/16-10/9/16
Week 7 Reflections
This week, Alexia and Mayra tested out spray painting galaxies for the backboard of our pinball machine, while the rest of us used pins to pin down the prototype wall to guide the direction of the pinball.
To honor the holy seven weeks that have passed, here are seven think that I believe make me Different!
1. I've been to 19 National Parks.
2. I've eaten sea cucumber.
3. America is getting boring so I hope to travel someday.
4. I try to see and consider everyone's viewpoints.
5. I built a castle in 2012. (a Cardboard one)
6. I tried memorizing every country of the world in elementary school.
7. I planted a tree in 2008 and now it's taller than me...
Week 6: 9/23/16-9/29/16
Lighting Up the Room with Ideas
This week, I was pondering over the various designs I had mentally conjured up, including a fish, rocket, or something related to taking L's. Ultimately, I was inspired to create something related to Chinese lanterns, but that thought shifted to making a teapot. My hypothesized teapot will be made of strands of trapezoids taped together to create an effect of a folded round pot with a handle made of card-stock. I was told that this would be a difficult and complicated idea, but I can see myself accomplishing this successfully.
Week 5: 9/16/16-9/23/16
Making 3-D Models and Designs
It was all about creating 3-D models this week. There were two models, the first was a cross like configuration and the second was an open cube. I drew a few animals on the first one, including a spider, camel, and an ostrich that could easily be mistaken for a horse or another camel. On the cube, I drew a stegosaurus, while the picture on the bottom left shows two other dinosaurs from my group including a self-proclaimed brontosaurus.
Week 4: 9/9/16-9/16/16
Receiving a Gift.... and My New Makers Book Cover!
This week, I was challenged to come up with something original for my makers book cover. To be honest, I really didn't know what I wanted to make, and I kept on inadvertently thinking about the collage I made for my sketchbook in freshman art. After 15 minutes of just thinking, I saw Troyer make a Japanese rising sun, so I decided I needed to get something started, so I decided to make something related to Germany. *Think: WWII* Dabbling with a few colors and designs here and there, I was able to create this design below, just scroll down and see for yourself. It's on the left.
Infographics!
Below to the right, you can also see an online infographic about "How Might We Questions!" Read it and educate yourself!
Below to the right, you can also see an online infographic about "How Might We Questions!" Read it and educate yourself!
Week 3: 9/2/16-9/9/16
Making a Gift!
We had the opportunity to create a gift based on an anonymous survey that was given to us. This one kid from another block wanted a tank, or at least that's how I interpreted his survey. This is what my interpretation of a tank became...
Making a Gift!
We had the opportunity to create a gift based on an anonymous survey that was given to us. This one kid from another block wanted a tank, or at least that's how I interpreted his survey. This is what my interpretation of a tank became...
Week 2: 8/29/16-9/2/16
Invention Literacy:
The ability to look at an object and see not just the conventional purpose, but also uses and creations beyond the existing ideas. Being open-minded and developing new ideas!
How we applied Invention Literacy:
We all know what paper clips can do. They clip paper. But you can also make a fishing rod out of it, like what my group did. We took a meter stick and attached a paper clip hook to it and hooked a paper fish onto it. While we weren't able to test it out in a lake, it was a fun experience to brainstorm exotic ideas!
Straw and Coffee Stick Creations!
Invention Literacy:
The ability to look at an object and see not just the conventional purpose, but also uses and creations beyond the existing ideas. Being open-minded and developing new ideas!
How we applied Invention Literacy:
We all know what paper clips can do. They clip paper. But you can also make a fishing rod out of it, like what my group did. We took a meter stick and attached a paper clip hook to it and hooked a paper fish onto it. While we weren't able to test it out in a lake, it was a fun experience to brainstorm exotic ideas!
Straw and Coffee Stick Creations!