Using cardboard, I created a basketball hoop because we thought it was a cool idea. Me and my team made this because we all liked basketball. We were going to make a different project but while we were working we saw that it looked like the start to a basketball hoop so we made one and it turned out really cool.

During this process, I learned how to make cool things with melted crayon. It was very cool you put the crayon in the hot glue gun and after a while it made really cool melted crayon. What we made with it was the ball we covered a ping pong ball with hot glue then we melted the crayon and then covered it with the melted crayon.

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 computational  thinker because me and my squad made our project step by step. we started with finding the box to start with. Then we made a back wall to it and added a piece of green felt. and then made the balls with the melted crayon. Then we made the hoop with 2 pieces of cardboard. then we painted the hoop and stuff with really cool blue paint.

A challenge I overcame on this project was the hoop. I was able to do it by talking with my group and design thinking. we talked about how we would make and what we would make it with. 

Given a chance to do this again, I would change the hoop. The reason why I would change it is because it does not look as good as the rest of the project. we used popsicle sticks and duck tape for it. the gray tape with the light blue tape did not look good it looked pretty bad.

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 and design CTE program at Hastings High School.  My project connects to careers in Mechanical Engineer.