8p2-Carboard Project

Using cardboard, I created a cardboard turtle named Winston because I felt that I could make a turtle easily while it still looking nice. During the creation of my turtle, I created 4 models of a peacock and 2 models of a turtle before I finally made the perfect model. After school ends, I hope to show this project at the Barry County Fair.

During this process, I learned how to paper mache using paper towel. Normally, I use newspaper, but I really liked the look of the paper towel bettter than the newspaper look. I also learned that instead of the flour and water mixture that I normally use for my paper mache, I had to use water and glue.

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. My project ties to Innovative Designer because I created many models of my design and came up with a solution to most of my problems.

A challenge I overcame on this project was figuring out how to make the eyes. The reason for this, is because googly eyes looked weird, along with my painted eyes. I was able to overcome it by sculpting eyes with some leftover clay and painting it with nail polish hardener to make the eyes look glossy.

Given a chance to do this again, I would change the position of the painted shell pieces. The reason why I would change it is because I found that they were not correctly positioned. Instead, I would take even more time stenciling the shell.

Hastings High School Career 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 the Engineering and Design CTE program at Hastings High School.  My project connects to the Engineering and Design CTE program because I made many different models for my projects, found all of my problems, and fixed them.  

My project is similar to careers in Architectual models. It is similar to this career because I built prototypes and roughly built my turtle to scale. The average income for an Arcitectual Modelist ranges form $100,000 to $120,000.