8p10 - X-Carve

Using The GlowForge, I created some boards with letters that can be rearranged into 2 different words, those being Secure and Rescue. I did this because I wanted to ramp up from what I did in 8P8 and make it more complex using more steps than just 1 SVG. Using the knowledge I gained from my first Glow Forge project, I was able to make this without as many errors or troubleshooting needing to occur. 

During this process, I learned more about the Glowforge and how to make sure my SVGs are up to scale to what they need to be. For example, when I was trying to make my signs I had to make multiple attempts until I figured out my mistakes causing the SVGs to not work as planned. knowing this data helped me to understand even more about both the Glowforge and SVG making and how to not make simple mistakes. 

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 Empowered Learner, I think this because I had to go around and figure out what issues I had and look up ways to fix said problems such as my letters being too big; therefore, I would search up the measurements I need to change and fix it. I also used Empowered Learner because I used the knowledge I had from my first project and used that info to learn more about Glowforge. Overall, I feel that this project was tied to Empowered Learner

A challenge I overcame on this project was making sure the SVGs were good for sending to the cutter. I overcame this by researching sizes and measurements, doing so to let me be able to get the size just good enough that no issues would occur mid-cut like an unaligned cut or random objects getting in the way. It was hard to overcome, but doing so helped me to understand Glowforge more and let me not have the same issue next time I run a Glowforge. 

Given a chance to do this again, I would change how I set up my project, my reason for this is that I accidentally took the boards out of the base of my board before cutting out the letter which made it harder for me to cut perfectly. It would had also let me stress less on this issue and let me focus more on getting ideas to put on the boards. Overall, I feel that there was flaws with this project but it came out solid and functioned as intended.

The Hastings High School Career and Technical Education Program proved the following programs, Agriculture, Business Management, Computer Programming, Construction Trades, Culinary Arts, Digital Multimedia, Engineering Design, Finance, Insurance, and Marketing. I feel my project is tied to the Construction Trades CTE program at Hastings High School. The reason I feel this is similar to my other Glowforge project, I had to work with wood just like how people in Construction Trades do. Working with wood would give me experience of the material and help me with the Construction Trades program as well, letting me understand its durability and what I can use it for.

My project connects to careers in Wood Design because similar to my 8p8, I burned my design on the boards. Due to me making the design, I have the credit for making the design meaning I did forms of Wood Design in this project. Overall, I feel that my project was able to tie to Wood design due to me using my SVG designs to carve into the wood for distribution to friends of family or as a job.