Outdoor STEM space

This is a project where me and my group members came up with an idea for furniture that could be used around campus and created accurate blueprints for the furniture we came up with. If the school board liked one of our plans enough, they might create it on campus somewhere.

Outdoor Furniture Design

This is a slideshow we created, which showcases our plan, blueprints, cost, and a bit more. A lot of our information originally came from the bluepritns, such as the cost, and were later put onto the slideshow so we could present it easier.

To make sure the bench was sturdy enough to hold several people at once, we got strong supports, which could hold up to 1000 pounds. Since most of the wood used in the bench wasn't meant to be touched by humans, we were able to make that wood out of cheaper pressure treated wood, instead of the higher quality redwood used for the bench itself. As mentioned before, our blueprints are where a lot of things on the slideshow came from, but we also got a large portion of the material on the slideshow from our 3d model, which is shown in the slides. We were able to really structure our model with Tinkercad, since it really helped us see what the bench we had created would look like if it was built. One of the main points of our design is how cheap it is for a hanging bench, which was largely due to the cheaper wood costs and a few good deals we found on other materials.

I think I really did a lot better in this project than I did in others, and did well with Communication in my group and Conscientiously learning while designing the bench. The two areas I might have liked to improve on would be Critical Thinking and Collaboration, since I did a lot of stuff on my own instead of working with my group, and at times a lot of the things I did were flawed because of my thought process.