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Planning Questions
Are you working by yourself or in a team?
I am working in a team with Brissa.
What materials will you need for your project?
We will need skittles, kisses, gum, springs, rubber bands and duct tape.
What is your plan to create in this project?
Our plan is to create a vending machine.
What unique qualities will your project have?
It will (hopefully) work just like a real vending machine.
List of 10 Good Ideas
List of 10 Good Ideas
Vending Machine
Foosball
Shoes
VR Goggles
Hot Wheels Track
Tank for a cat
Skeeball
Mini-Fair
Basketball Court
Model Runway
Daily Log:
Daily Log:
Day 1: I worked on my 10 ideas and worked on my planning questions. I googled ideas for most of them but came up with a few myself.
Day 2: We worked on the dimensions and started cutting some of the pieces.
Main Backdrop
Front piece
Planning sheet for measurements
Day 3: We finished cutting out our pieces and started assembling them.
Base Part
Partially completed base
Slightly more completed part of base
side part of base
Day 4: We finished building the main structure and started making the more complex dispenser part.
Parts to release mechanism
Popsicle sticks to put on mechanism part
Day 5: We worked on putting together the part that releases the candy.
Skittles
The buttons we might use
Thing that will hold the candy
Main structure
Top view of thing that holds candy
unfinished candy holder
Jolly Ranchers we'll use
M&Ms
Buttons for the candy you want
Day 6: We worked on the part that releases the candy and we put in the springs.
Candy that we'll use
Part that releases candy- almost completed
part that releases candy-almost completed
Attached candy dispenser to main structure
Day 7: We finished assembling two of the candy dispensers and attached them to the main structure and filled them with candy and tested them.
My Movie.mov
Candy in dispenser.
Using cardboard, hot glue, popsicle sticks, and a lot of candy, I created a candy despenser because I thought it would be fun and challenging. Also, I thought it would be cool to know how to do. I could probably base some other creations off the mechanisms I constructed while creating this project.
During this process, I learned how to solve problems that occured during the planning and design processes. I also learned to measure more accurately. Also, I learned to do proportions better. The project didnt have set measurements so we had to improvise.
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 and Computational thinker because we designed (most) of our project ourselves, and we had to solve problems that occurred. Also, Global Collaborator works too because we shared our projects on our google sites which is shared with the world.
A challenge I overcame on this project was the lack of measurement on some of the different materials. I was able to do it by using proportions and measuring our project to make sure that everything fit. We had to remeasure some of the edges because we (I) measured wrong, but we got it in the end.
Given a chance to do this again, I would change our time management. The reason why I would change it is because I noticed towards the end, we started having to rush in order to finish our project. I'm usually on top of things, but this project definitely tested that. Or, I could decide to make more variation on what types of candy we could use instead of just having 2-3.
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 project connects to the Engineering Design and Culinary Arts (sort of) CTE program at Hastings High School. My project connects to careers in Engineering.
This was a very fun project to do. It was definitely very challenging getting the mechanics right and using the time allotted to finish our project, but we succeeded in the end.
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