Our first project this year was the Rube Goldberg machine. We were paired up with people to design a Rube Goldberg machine based on each others 'food stories'. We were asked to speak to each other about our chosen food, and how it connects to our life/what it means to us. We took our partner's food stories and built off that.

After we created the comic story and the Rube Goldberg machine of our partner's project, we created visual recipes. I made a recipe to show how Lily's food was created, with all the cooking steps and ingredients. Most of us chose to create them on Canva and carbon copy print onto paper, while others free-handed them on paper directly. I chose to create a draft on Canva to trace onto paper and color. I have a link to the original draft below.

Recipe on Canva Link 

For our Rube Goldberg machine, all first three projects were connected to the food stories. Based on our Rube Goldberg machine, we made a blueprint symbolizing our machines, showing how it connects to the story, and how our machine was created.

Here was my proposal for 'The Plushie Pantry'. We were asked to present our project proposals to the class, I created a slideshow about my idea and the information on it and it's process.

For the Wicked Food Project, we were asked to write a paper about what we created. For my project, since I chose to mix stuffed animals, I wrote a paper on how I chose my project, what it means, and just more general information on ultra-processed foods. Click the link to gain access to the document.

This was my final product for the Wicked Food Project. I had sewn together two stuffed animals to create a new species. This represented how animals, humans, and nature were affected by ultra-processed foods.

In humanities, we were partnered up with people and asked to create comics on their chosen food story. My partner was Lily, she explained to me how as a kid she and her brother would eat edamame at her parents restaurant. I made a comic to example this food story.

At the end of our semester, we began to research different types of food processes in groups. I was given the farm role, so it was my job to research how much joules were put into the chicken raising/caring on the farm before being transported to be made into chicken strips. Each group member researched the amount of joules/solar energy and we put the total together; then we created large wooden wheel stands and wheels. We put them all create together to create this!

Around the end of our projects, we were given topics surrounding 'Unpredictability and the Beauty in it.' My partner and I chose to create a poster on Traffic Jams, we researched information on traffic jams and all about what makes them unpredictable.