For our first design project, we were told to create a lightbox that had the scenery of a place that is special or a place that we remember. During online learning, it was very hard to communicate with teachers but we still continued with our lightbox, first, we chose our site, then had started some designs on adobe illustrator but it was very difficult without having face-to-face help with teachers. After online learning, back to school we immediately started making the lightbox, starting off with designing in adobe illustrator. After we have our design all done, Mr.Layman and Mr.Gaby helped us cut our lightbox with the laser cutter. After we had our lightbox cut out, we had a sketch having where we will color and what color it’s going to be, once we had our sketch we started coloring, and let it dried. And the last step we have left is the LED and the spacers. We choose a way to put our LED in and I chose to wrap it around in circles inside, then after the LED, we can choose to glue the layers or no, and I chose to glue it together, while gluing I also added some spacers to have space for the LED. After this 3 months of design, my biggest success was learning how to use adobe illustrator, the first time using adobe illustrator was difficult but after 3months and with classmates and teachers help,  I feel like it much easier now, I know much more things about adobe compare to the first time using it. Something I’d like to change is adding more details, if I add more details I think it might also look better. But overall, I think my lightbox actually turned out pretty well, especially with the LED light opened.

my biggest success was that we used our time wisely, and when it was time for the 4th-grade class to come we were ready. And they really enjoyed it.

My biggest obstacle was when we were building the cardboard arcade some part didn’t fit very well,  and I also think that our game was a little too big if we make it smaller it might make it easier for us.

Skills that I learned and developed was my cutting skills before I came to design my cutting skills wasn’t that good, I didn’t know how to cut the very straight lines, but after having design I was able to cut straight lines and make my own cardboard arcade game.

One thing I would like to change is the size of my game, and how stable it is because I noticed that when I was using it and carrying it around the bottom of the game was always feeling like it was gonna collapse, but it might also be that it was cardboard so it felt like collapsing.

One piece of advice I would give to a future student doing this project is that you should plan what you’re going to do each class, and don’t be to rush on your last class or something, and you don’t want to challenge yourself way too much you should pick a game that you’re able to make.