Using cardboard, popsicle sticks and hot glue, I created a (hopefully) haunted looking house. The house I made has paneling on all four sides of the house, and shingles on the roof. It also has a front door frame, but no front door. I cut popsicle sticks out for the roof, and the sides. I then glued them onto the cardboard base and purposefully overlapped them, I thought that would make it look a little more realistic because on real houses, the side paneling is usually a little overlapped, and so are the shingles. Using materials I made a pretty cool, in my opinion, house.

  During the process of making the House,  I learned that I would not be a very good architect. I would not be a very good architect because the base of my house is pretty uneven and so is the roof. I tried my hardest to make everything on the cardboard base even and straight, but I didn't try very hard on the roof because I felt rushed. I ended up glueing  on uneven pieces for the roof base and I didn't realize how uneven it really was until I started glueing on the roof shingles.

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 made the design for the house all on my own. I did everything by hand and by myself. I glued pieces of cardboard together as the base for the house then I cut out a bunch of popsicle sticks and used hot glue to stick them to the base.  

  A challenge I overcame on this project was making the front of the house's paneling that is above roof level. When I first glued them on, I accidently cut them to be to small but I thought it would be fine because the shingles would cover up the cardboard you could see. I was wrong, they did not cover up the cardboard. After I finished the roof, I realized the shingles didn't cover the cardboard, so I ripped off the original paneling. Then, I cut out different popsicle sticks and glued them to the side of the house. You can still see some of the cardboard but I think its still a major improvement from the original paneling. I overcame the challenge of bad side panels.

  Given a chance to do this project again, I would take more time and care to line up the popsicle sticks correctly to make the corners of the house not have cardboard that you can see. I would also try to make the roof only have vertical sticks/ shingles and not have the horizontal sticks you can see. I only put the horizontal sticks there because the vertical ones were very uneven and you could still see some cardboard and I didn't like it. So, if I were do make this house again I would make sure there isn't any cardboard you can see through the popsicle sticks and I would try to add a working front door.

  Hastings High School Carrier and Technical Education Program Offers Agriculture, Business Management, Computer Programming, Construction Trades, Culinary Arts, Digital Multimedia, Engineering Design, Finance, Insurance, and Marketing. My project connects to Engineering Design because I made the house and it's design completely from scratch. I also put everything together on my own. My project connects to Engineering design because I made a popsicle stick house.