Reflection #8
Innovation Inquiry
Reflect on how you went during your inquiry. What did you learn?
What were some of the challenges of innovating?
Explain how you worked toward your goals and how it helped your learning. What worked? What didn’t? What would you do differently next time?
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My eighth Inquiry went very well. I think this was because I worked very hard to design an interesting and innovative prototype The problem I chose was soil erosion on farms in NZ. This was a good topic for me because I am interested in farming and it is a very real and present problem for a lot of farmers..
The Innovation Inquiry was really useful as it taught me about the value of putting a lot of effort into the inquiry conclusion. I spent over twenty hours designing the seed shooting drone prototype that I am very happy with and proud of
I think my innovation was useful and truly innovative as well as being realistic because it uses technology that already exists.
The biggest challenge of innovating for me was coming up with an idea to work on.
One of my goals was to persist through difficulties by working on this goal it helped me to improve my learning because I continued to persist through the difficulty's that came my way while designing my prototype this meant that there was a much better outcome. One specific difficulty that I had while working on this inquiry was struggling to have enough time to complete it. I was away for all the weekends and as a result I needed to knuckle down and do heaps of work at home and at school.
The goal I did the best with was resilience the reason it went so well was because I was very interested in my topic of trying to mitigate the problem of soil erosion and wanted it to work. So I persisted through sickness and through health to complete my inquiry.
I was a bit frustrated with how one goal went because I was sick so I couldn't present my inquiry.
Next time I will do more user research this will help me to get a more accurate picture of what I need to create to help the people who would impact from this innovation.
Drone Design
Evidence of Term 2 goals being met.
Copy and paste all relevant evidence in the form of screenshots or written explanations of what was done to achieve your 4 goals for Term 2.
e.g. Test results, teacher feedback, parent feedback, peer feedback, your own explantion of things you did etc.
1.Resilience.
2. persists through difficulty's.
3.I will work on the physical part of my Hauora because I need to be fit and healthy to run well in my races this term.
4.Honours the legacy of the inquiry programme.
6E. Good effort Tom. A well thought out and practical innovation. Thanks for your speech the other day.
This is the "Seedstrike". It is a seed firing tree planting drone that can help solve soil erosion and deforestation issues around the world.