John Chun 8-6 2023 Capstone Project
This essay is about the SDG Goal 16. It talks about the causes, effects, and solutions on a modern problem – school shootings in the US.
John
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious" - Albert Einstein
My old lamp at home broke so I needed a new lamp to place next to my bed, so I decided to build a lamp using Fusion and Lightburn. At first, I wanted to make a simple cube with a lightbulb inside as the final design, but decided to add extra details to make it more unique. After all the planning, I split my lamp into three parts: a top bit, the base, and the supporting bit. The top bit is where the light bulb will be placed, the supporting bit is what helps support the top bit to connect with the base, and the base bit is the base of the lamp. I first used Fusion to draw each panels, and used Lightburn to send and laser cut, with a wood length of 5mm. I wanted my lamp to look simple and modern so I added simple shapes on the top bit such as stars, apples, Korean flag, etc. However, when I made my first cardboard design I found out how some of my pieces didn’t match accurately and my Korean flag looked bad after printing. So I worked really hard for 3 lessons to fix my calculations and replaced the Korean flag with a smiley face. After I made sure that everything was going to work out after I print it with wood, I exported my panels from fusion to lightburn. I colored all my panels red so they would all be cut out and sent my design to the technicians to for printing. After receiving my printed wood panels, I made sure nothing was wrong with the shapes on the panels, and started gluing them together for 2 lessons straight. Luckily, they were all perfectly calculated by me and fit flawlessly. However, after I placed my light bulb in and glued the top piece, I realized that I might have to take the lightbulb out in the future when it’s broken. So I took the top piece out and instead used a magnet to connect the top piece so I can take the bulb out (Thank you Mr Diego). Another problem was that the bolt that I screwed in was sticking out from the bottom and did not make my lamp look good. So Mrs. Kim helped me get rid of it using a cool but dangerous tool. And I screwed a new bolt sticking up so that it was hidden. After that, I was finally done with my lamp. Overall, I’m totally satisfied with my work, but something that i’m disappointed about it was that I didn’t have time to color it.
In this project, I thoroughly used most of the skills I learned in Fusion, such as the spline tool, circular pattern tool, rectangular pattern tool, mirror tool, etc. Especially the circular pattern tool was very useful for all the panels that I made. Moreover, I enjoyed drawing the apple and smiley face shapes with the spline tool and it was super cool drawing other stuff as well. Although I didn’t face any problems when using Fusion to draw my panels out, I did spend a lot of time adjusting the panels sizes and drawing out the apple shape with the spline tool that was hard to use because i wanted the apple to look good. I remember spending almost 30 minutes to adjust the overall shape of the apple. After I finished drawing all the panels, I moved on to Lightburn which was super easy because I just had to color all the panels red because they all had to be cut out.
As an advice to incoming students, I believe the key thing about Fusion is patience. Because Fusion does crash a lot and it takes time to learn and it is important to stay patient while learning. Unlike me I was very impatient whenever I faced a problem or when Fusion crashed, and it just made everything worse. If I retake this subject again, I would try to stay patient while learning and acknowledge that learning a whole new software is a hard process. Overall, each class was a fun and difficult experience and I feel like I learned a lot from it. But one thing I would like to change if I were the teacher is that I wouldn’t make my students use the macbook for Fusion and instead use a better PC because it crashes a lot.
This journal was written by a soldier during the American Revolution. He has encountered the American in the journal and his writing is a bit bad because he wasn’t educated. This revolution was not a success for him because he became fatherless after a war.
During the past few weeks we have been learning about the American Revolution. The American Revolution was an impactful revolution for the Americans which occurred between 1774 and 1783. It formed the basis for America’s future development by abandoning monarchy and ruling under a congress. Moreover, they gained complete independence from Britain after the Treaty of Paris was signed on 1783 with the help of France. We had fun learning about various interesting events that took place, while investigating many primary sources. After the seminars, we got to make a common craft video explaining the revolution, you can watch the below. Editing/Voice Recording/Video by Ethan Liu and John Chun.
– A Picture of Google It.
Google It , is a book written by Anna Crowley Redding is a book about the whole history and development of Google. This story is told in the perspective of two college students, Larry and Sergey working on their university assignment. They soon expand the homework into one of the most powerful and impactful company in the world, while going through hardship. This story is told in a chronological order from Google being just a small homework into a lavishing company. Moreover, the author introduces the readers many thoughtful, noteworthy ideas and themes.
I totally enjoyed this book (10/10) and would highly recommend it to my friends. Below, I will show you my notes about the interesting central ideas and themes.
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The first central idea that I identified throughout the book was “Keep Trying New Things.” As you can see in my note(assessment) below:
As I read further, I noticed Google was growing in a rapid pace, making tools that helped their users. In the notes below, i noted down vital tools that Google created.
As I read through the book, I was intrigued by the Google April Fools event. From this I realized that sometimes new ideas did not have to be useful, or require time to make, it could be something entertaining. So another idea i spotted was: “New Ideas can be anything.”
As I flipped through the last few pages of Google, I was shocked by the amount of projects Google was carrying out, such as the Google-X project in order to make life easier for people. The tenacity of Google was astonishing, as they are still working hard and rapidly growing since 20 years before. From here, the central idea from my note number 1 is reiterated.
Thank you so much for scrolling down to the end of my blog. For more information about google, feel free to check the book out, it’s amazing.
Brown Italicized Text History Education Presentation by John Chun [STUDENT]
Found Poem for Humanities
This found poem was created with the words from the story entitled “Tuesday of the Other June” written by an American author named Norma Fox Mazer. To put the words together, I used online tools such as Microsoft Words, and Canva. I first chose the words that I was going to use for the found poem on Words, then added pictures on Canva.
In the story, the main character named June meets another June with the same name in her weekly swimming class. However, the Other June thinks she is unique, and thus forces June to change her name to “Fish Eyes”. Additionally, she even bullies June physically, and makes fun of her clothing. As the bullying goes on, she becomes afraid of the days that she has her swimming class with the Other June. This clearly shows that the story has a character vs character conflict between June and the Other June. For example, I added and distinctly colored some action words such as shove, pinch, and punch to black to show that there is a collision between the two characters. I made use the font GFS Didot, and a red, blood-like background with dark edges to make a serious mood for the poem. Furthermore, I made use of some symbolic images to help the readers clearly imagine the story. At the end of the poem, I used words such as awful, and bad to express different emotions of the protagonist, and also show a slight internal conflict in her mind. In conclusion, I believe these small details and elements were combined together to form an appealing poem.
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