7P2 - Cardboard Challenge

List of 10 Good Ideas

1. A button that opens a door when pushed

2. A lever that is connected to a coil of string to open a door

3. A gumball machine

4. A character or object from a video game

5. A box that opens up when you stick a pencil into a small hole

6. An animal or some other creature

7. A puzzle set

8. A cardboard suit made out of cardboard

9. A wall

10. A skyscraper

11. A Nintendo GameCube

Planning Questions

Are you working by yourself or in a team?

I am working in a 2-person team.

What materials will you need for your project?

We will need a lot of cardboard, hot glue, scissors, paper, coloring utensils, and duct tape.

What is your plan to create in this project?

We plan to create a Nintendo GameCube.

What unique qualities will your project have?

Our project will have a unique logo design.

Daily Log

Day 1

We formed our group.

Day 2

We brainstormed ideas and made a quick sketch of the one we decided on. We then gathered the required materials and stashed them in our corner.

Day 3

We cut the boxes and hot glued them so that they wouldn't fall apart. We then used duck tape to put all of the boxes together into one large frame with a flap at the top and a hole in the middle for a popsicle stick to go through. This will be important to activate the system. (We decided not to use a pencil)

Day 4

We brainstormed a new and easier mechanism to open the flap. After designing this we created it only to realize it didn't work, so we decided to restart mid-project. After some thinking, we decided to make a Nintendo GameCube using the box we had already built.

Day 5

We created a circuit board for our GameCube and also made the platform for a disk drive.

Day 6

On the last building day, we finished up our project by adding a screen and 2 flaps that went over the screen for triple action. We also finished the disk drive and made the entire body chrome. While I was working on all this, my partner created a completely new never seen before HatchBoxx controller. We then rebranded our GameCube as HatchBoxx.

Reflection

• Using cardboard scraps, duct tape, crayons, toothpicks, and clothes hangars I and my partner created a GameCube alternative. We did this because we thought it would be cool, and because we had to restart mid project and needed something that wasn't super complicated to make. We created what Nintendo did but better.

• During this process, I learned how to use cardboard scissors. I also learned how to use a hot glue gun. I already partially knew how to use a hot glue gun but this project helped reinforce my knowledge.

• The 7 standards of the class are Empowered Learner, Digital Citizen, Knowledge Constructor, Innovative Designer, Computational Thinker, Creative Communicator, and Global Collaborator. My project ties to Innovative Designer because I worked with someone else to create something new that has never been made before. Not only did we create something unique we did it with cardboard scraps and duct tape.

• A challenge I overcame on this project was trying to cleanly cut the cardboard. I was able to do it by using a plastic handheld cardboard cutter to get a rough outline then using the scissors to cut off all of the flakes and rough spots. After this was done we were left with clean-looking cuts in the cardboard boxes.

• Given a chance to do this again, I would change the thought process we used. We started off with a project without thinking about it. The reason why I would change it is that we had to restart mid-way and lost a lot of valuable time, leaving some parts of our project looking rushed.

• Hastings High School Career and Technical Education Program offer Agriculture, Business Management, Computer Programming, Construction Trades, Culinary Arts, Digital Multimedia, Engineering Design, Finance, Insurance, and Marketing.  My project connects to the Construction Trades CTE program at Hastings High School. It also connects to the Engineering design CTE program at Hastings High School.  My project connects to careers in Product Design Engineer because it involves testing and improving product box designs, similar to what we did in this project. This job pays well at a typical pay of about 113K a year, according to Glassdoor.