The documentation of your project is essential to your overall grade and experience in the class. It's important that you capture this process throughout the semester. You will be responsible for three overall elements that will need to be submitted for a grade and ultimately end up on one website page within this Hawken Fab Lab Website (Example).

The goal is that you can use this documentation as a way to populate your own professional portfolio for college or career opportunities.

1. Project Slide Show (100 points)

Frequent (almost daily) posts of what you are working on each day. (Example)

Complete your Project Slideshow with captions, labels, and mini-write ups for each slide.

1. • • Eventually, the first (front) slide should be a photo of your completed project. This would be the final, best, image of your project. This image should look “professional” and can be taken in a photo booth or in good lighting. They should be cropped to emphasize and provide focus on the final product. Enhance the images by adjusting the brightness and contrast through the formatting options of the image selected. An animation or GIF could be a bonus.

     • Crop and enhance any other photos and images in your slideshow to improve what the viewer sees. Make it look professional.

     • Add supporting process text to each slide. What did you do, learn, try, experiment with, etc.

     • Change all text to size 12 font, unless it is a tile.

     • Include supporting caption text (size 10) for photos to point out what you want the viewer to notice.

2. Design Process Summary Report (Example) (100 points)

Generate a new Google Document by making a copy of the template provided. Add the following sections to the document...

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Abstract: This will be placed next to a final image slide of your project. This should describe the “What” of your project. What did you do, make, invent, processes you have explored. Be concise and descriptive. Examples

1. Feature (Title) Slide - Presentation Cover Slide - this is the first thing that viewers will see when they click on your blog post.

2. Concept Slide - Conceptualize the Idea - You should prepare a concept piece that shows the time, thought, and energy you have to see this project through. In other words, convince me you can do this by preparing a document that shows some initial ideas, sketches, and photos to examples of similar work, instructions or tutorials you will follow, and a potential plan you will follow.

3. Initial Progress Slide

4. Breakthrough Slide - Focus on one breakthrough moment that really put you on track for this project

5. Midway Slide and written Reflection - What are your proposed initial next steps and what do you need to start planning to do to complete this project

6. TBD

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