7-P2: Cardboard Creations.

List of 10 ideas we considered making:

Computer
Basketball
Dragon
Car
Plane
Xbox
Lego Figure
PS5
Computer Setup
Golf Club

Planning Questions:

Are you working by yourself or in a team?

For the cardboard creations project, I am working in a team with Rayn Evans, Darren Feilds, and myself.

What materials will you need for your project?

Our team will be using materials such as cardboard, scissors, tape, hot glue, wire, colored pencils, and markers.

What is your plan to create in this project?

Our plan to create this project is to make the main pieces separately, like the backboard, rim, and pole. Then we will assemble the pieces by using tape and hot glue to put them together. We may also make a basketball if we have time.

What unique qualities will your project have?

It will be a fun creative project that is interactive. We can all make a part of the basketball hoop and work together as a team to assemble the project. The basketball is something we all like to play, so building a cardboard project of a basketball hoop will be a way to be interested in the project.

Day 1

I looked at other student's cardboard creations and created the subpage on my digital portfolio. I also worked on my list of 10 ideas for this project and thought about something I could make that was going to interest me and look cool.

Day 2

On day two we selected team members. I worked with my group members together. We made a sketch of what our project might look like. I think we are all excited to make something!

Day 3

We worked on the pole of our basketball hoop. This is one of the main pieces, so we worked hard to make sure it was sturdy. Nex, we started on the rim.

Day 4

We added the backboard to the pole, and attached the rim to the backboard. It's starting to look really cool! We also tried to make a ball.

Day 5

We added the net to the rim, and also worked on marking the standard box on the backboard. We continued to work on trying to make a functional basketball.

Day 6

On day 6 we worked to make a better basketball. We also colored in more on the backboard. We used duct tap to cover the main pole and the base.

Day 7

We finished up the rim and added some final details. One final detail we added was tape to the pole and base to help reinforce the connection and make the project more sturdy. These were the last steps we took to finish up our project together.

This is my cardboard creation:

My cool creation

Reflection on my project:

Using cardboard, hot glue, tape, cardboard scissors, wires, markers, and normal scissors I created a functional basketball hoop. This completed hoop was inexpensive to make, and is small enough to sit on a table. It can help people not get bored if they have nothing to do, or if they want to play basketball and cannot go outside if it's too cold or a rainy day.

During this process, I learned how to make a paper ball using square cardboard. It was very tricky because it was hard to visualize how to turn a square into a sphere. I looked up some images online and found an instruction guide online on how to do it, and followed their steps. Once we had the structure for the ball built out of cardboard, we used duct tape to help further shape it into the circular ball.

The 7 standards of the class are Empowered Learner, Digital Citizen, Knowledge Constructor, Innovative Designer, Computational Thinker, Creative Communicator, and Global Collaborator. My cardboard basketball hoop project ties to Innovative Designer, because it uses simple materials to create something fun and playable. I had to think creatively to make a design that works, using the materials provided. I also like that the design reuses materials you may already have at home, which would make it environmentally friendly and low cost.

A challenge I overcame on this project was the duct tape not sticking to the cardboard well. Once we took time to press on the tape it seemed to stick better. We also had the challenge of the pole not sticking to the base with hot glue. We used more tape to reinforce the pieces together so it was stronger.

Given a chance to do this again, I would change the amount of duct tape we used. The reason why I would change it is because In some spots, it looks rough because we had to use quite a bit to help strengthen the assembly together. In other spots where we did not have to reinforce it as much, it looks smooth and clean. I preferred that look, and we may have been able to use a different type of glue and not as much duct tape in the spots that needed extra reinforcement if we were to do this project again.

Hastings High School Career and Technical Education Program offers Agriculture, Business Management, Computer Programming, Construction Trades, Culinary Arts, Digital Multimedia, Engineering Design, Finance, Insurance, Marketing. My cardboard basketball hoop project connects to the Engineering Design CTE program at Hastings High School several ways. It uses creative thinking and hands-on building. I had to plan, design, and test my project to make sure it worked, which is a similar process that an engineer would do in real life.

My project connects to careers in Robotics Engineering because in their projects, they have to determine their project's physical structure. They also have to determine their projects functionality. I liked that I created something usable and playable from an idea.

Our team worked good together. We were able to each work on pieces of the project separately, and were able to work together to connect them. It was a fun project and I would do it again.

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