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1. What are five characteristics of our beneficiary?

• Young people with big dreams
• Talented at riding bikes
• Lacking exposure to the affluent international society.
• Oppressed/discriminated against, both in terms of gender (female) and race (black).
• Lacking financial support.

2. What is the EI we should design for?

1. Lack of engagement in humanitarian causes
2. Regional poverty
3. Lack of sustainable income for NGOs

3. What is the problem we are trying to take action on?

1. MCC has insufficient monthly donors
2. Lack of global awareness of the MCC
3. There is a reluctance for people to be monthly donors

4. What does success look like?

• 500 monthly donors
• More opportunities for the athletes to race and travel.
• Females and males treated equally
• Higher community and worldwide recognition
• Increased media exposure
• Increased access to education and experiences
• Cover fundamental amenities and equipment costs

 

Title: The Big Four

Author: Agatha Christie

Page #: finished

Response to what you have read so far:

• Since this is only one book out of the whole Poirot serie, I wonder how has the character Poirot changed through out time?
• the character, Hasting, is a friend of Poirot and also the narrator of the book. I wonder did the author add this character just so that we could read from his perspective or does he actually influence the writing?

Title: to kill a mocking bird

Author: Harper Lee

Page #: finished

Response to what you have read so far:

• what does the mocking bird represent
  • in the story Atticus told jean “it’s a sin to kill a mocking bird”, so why is the title to kill a mocking bird
• what could the town Maycomb represent
• the theme of the story is related with race
• how does the death of Tom connect to the theme/ history?
• theme: social inequality, loss of innocence

visualizing research

In design we were challenged to solve a daily problem that we face every day using a A4 sized leather. In my case, when I come to school every day with my backpack, I find other students’ backpack to be decorated by cute keychain whereas mine is bland and boring. In the next couple of classes, I will be making a keychain as a decoration for my backpack. 

In product design, we were challenged to make a light box of a landscape or place that’s memorable to us. I chose to make my light box London themed—I included the London eye, Big Ben, and Tower Bridge.

after I had decided my theme, I used the adobe illustrator to make the layers of my light box(as you could see, the light box is made of layers overlapping each other). this seems very simple—drag and drop the icon downloaded online into my own file—but actually I had to adjust the size and change some of the details so that the laser cutter was able to cut it out properly. when painting the layers, I used the skill of masking, for the moon in the background, to avoid painting into areas that’s already covered with another color. putting in the LED was a lot harder than I had expected, and if I could do it again, I will stack more LED in between the background and the city layer so it looks brighter than it is now.

I think I made the layers of my light box successfully, but I could have done a better job in choosing the color for my layers. my biggest obstacle was trying to put the LEDs in place (as you could see in my final product, the light seems a bit dim).

We were asked to help our partner to design something that will stop their favorite food from ruining. I had to design a product that will keep my partner’s (Mr. Layman) favorite food; french baguette from going stale.

Research:

I did some research on how to keep baguette fresh and here’s what I found:

Wrap the baguette with aluminum foil, then put it in the freezer. when you want to eat it first wet the baguette and heat it in the oven for 10 to 15 minutes. after research I decided to design something that will do both of the job of heating and freezing it.

Sketch:

during the research part I decided to make some thing that could heat it as well as freezing it, but after wards I figure it’ll be better if the inner layer of my design is aluminum foil. it’s a pretty simple design with a heat and a freeze button, and a place to put baguette(I did some changes to my design when I am making my prototype)

Prototype:

since I was making something that has a box shape so I decided to first draw it on the paper, then cut it out, the stick the sides together (I added a On/Off button on my prototype.)and at last it looked like the picture below:

Conclusion:

My biggest obstacle in this project is the making the prototype part. When I was drawing on the paper I didn’t measure how long each side should be, so actually my prototype should be longer.

One thing I’d like to change is the prototype part because I was planing to add aluminum foil inside the prototype but I forgot about it when I was trying to stick the sides together.

One piece of advice I would give a future student doing this project is the sketch part is really important, it decides how your prototype is going to look like.

Overall I think this product is fine, but there are still lots of space for improving.

last week (May 22, 23 and 24) my class and 6.1, 6.2, 6.4 went on a 3-day trip together. There is 2 people in one room, but maybe because there is not enough room so there’s 3 people in my room. On the first day we did a civilisation game. In this game we had to build our own civilisation, in my civilisation we built 2 chair, a table, a swing, a tent and different weapons. On the second day’s morning we kept on adding things to our civilisation, and in the after noon we start building a raft, but on the way we carry the raft to the river the raft fell apart. On the last day we had to take all the things we built down.

 

中文课上我们做了一个阅读反思。我们需要写一首关于“漫漫求水路”的歌，这首歌需要概括的四章大概的内容，然后需要表演出来。我们组有4个人每个人都负责了一段歌词的创作。我们表演的总体来说还不错，可是我们唱歌的声音比较小导致我们没有达到ME的标准。不过其他方面我们都达到了标准所以拿到了ME-。