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Cole Thrasher Portfolio

Cole Thrasher

D-Tech 2nd Dynasty

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Week 9/9/2019 - 9/13/2019

This week I've focused the majority of my time working on our first sale. We are creating custom stickers for an English teacher on campus. She needed identification for her chrome books so we opted to provide that for her. As of yet we have gotten a design ok'ed by her and have found out the color she would like best. We will soon be moving onto creating a prototype of the sticker to show her as an example before we go any further. The rest of my time was spent learning and mastering laser cutting, I am in charge of creating our houses logo plate that will be presented on the wall in the D-tech lab. I've finished a few practice engravings and cuts and will likely be creating the finished piece by the end of this week or early in the next week.

Week 9/16/2019 - 9/20/2019

This week wasn't nearly as productive as the last. I was sick for a few days so a lot of potential work time was lost. As a result I just did a few housekeeping tasks. I filled out our Sales Order Process form as much as I could for the Schmitt stickers sale. Along with this Gavin and I showed her a new version of the stickers that she really liked, now that we have a firm design we'll be filling out our Sales Order Acknowledgement form next week and getting a quote on the product. Aside from working on this I also took three safety tests so I now am completely certified to use the propaganda machines which include the Silk Screen, Vinyl Cutter, and Cannon Printer.

Week 9/23/2019 - 9/27/2019

This week our house focused on creating our D-Tech lanyards. We kept the front design simple, putting our name, house, and email on the front and then our skills and a QR code on the back. Once we had this final design we were ready to print them all out. After a few problems with the Cannon printer we were eventually able to print out our lanyard and cut them out.

Week 9/30/19 - 10/4/19

We only had two days of D-Tech this week and as a result we weren't able to do much. Due to the lack of time we focused on creating our t-shirts. We got a prototype made with the vinyl heat press. There were a few errors in creating it such as the logo being backwards, because we didn't mirror it and also the logo being on the wrong side. In our next test design we'll try to fix these errors so that we can start creating the official shirts for our team.

Week 10/7/9 - 10/11/19

This week Gavin and I filled out a Sales Order Acknowledgement but are yet to have it signed by the customer. Aside from this I made a few test designs for our House plaque. We were having trouble with the engraving and how it all turned out. The Epilog laser was only cutting half of our logo and cutting off large portions. To get around this we redid the file proportions and set our own origin on the laser cutter. Now we have a correctly proportioned design and are finally ready to cut it onto the main piece of acrylic.

Week 10/14/19 - 10/18/19

This week I got a sales quote for the Schmitt Stickers job and then got the quote as well as design verbally acknowledged by her. So we advanced several steps on the Sales Process Checklist. I also set up our basic Trello card for future jobs so when we get new jobs we just need to fill in certain details. Next week we'll be producing the product for her and hopefully finishing the sale.

10/21/19 - 10/25/19

This week we sent an invoice for our stickers sale. Since the invoice has been sent and the payment has been confirmed we were able to start production on the stickers. As of now we have produced 6 stickers and have 2 waiting to be weeded. After break we'll be cutting them all into a piece of vinyl so all we'll need to do is weed them. I'm expecting this all to take about a week and a half so after that we'll be able to deliver the product.

11/4/19 - 11/8/19

This week we finished cutting and weeding all the stickers for our Laptop stickers sale. We didn't encounter many problems cutting the stickers but faced a lot of trouble weeding them. The font we used was relatively intricate and the cutter had trouble cutting them completely. Along with this, letters such as the I's and T's were very difficult to cut out so in the future we'll either shy away from using text or we'll use block lettering.

11/11/19 - 11/15/19

We mainly focused on re-learning how to make T-shirts. Tuesday we watched another house make shirts for a job of theirs and then we spent all of Thursday practicing putting on designs, getting the technique, amount of coats, and time spent drying right. In the end we found that 3 coats was a good number and then waiting for 15 seconds after the shirt got to 270 degrees to dry worked best. In the end we had 2 designs that didn't crack at all and we will be using the method done for those shirts on our final shirts.

11/18/19 - 11/22/19

This week we practiced putting our logo onto the t-shirts again just like last week. Since we still hadn't completely mastered it and needed our house shirts for the D-Tech picture we ended up using a different method to create our shirts. We used vinyl heat press to create our shirts and in the end they all turned out very well. In addition to this we started delivery of our Stickers for Mrs. Schmitt. We would take out several Chromebooks at a time to put on the stickers but we encounter a large problem. The transfer paper molded to the sticker making it very difficult to put the sticker on without ruining it. Hopefully well figure out how to fix this next week.

12/1/19 - 12/6/19

This week we had a lot of work to do to complete our Schmitt stickers sale. We put the stickers on a total of 35 Chromebooks which proved to be a challenge since the stickers had bonded to the transfer paper, making it very difficult to get them to stick to the Chromebooks. To combat this we had to figure out a certain way to put on the stickers that made its easier. The way I chose was to hold the transfer paper very close to the sticker and bend off the parts of the sticker that was being put on at the time

12/8/19 - 12/13/19

This week we started our financial literacy unit. We had a guest speaker come in both days to teach us about how ads target people and the appeals they use as well as how to manage money better. We learned the different ways to save money such as under the mattress or stocks and bonds or a mutual fund. We learned that the best way to save your money is with diversified funds which is essentially not putting all your money in one method of saving which is good to know. We also learned about credit card interest rates and that people tend to spend more when using a credit card because they aren't physically giving something up

12/16/19 - 12/20/19

This week we were able to get another stickers job. Since we had already done it before it went a lot quicker this time. We were able to make and deliver the stickers in a week and using what we learned on our last sticker job, we did not ruin any stickers when weeding or putting them on. When we delivered the stickers we had 3 people working. One person putting all the stickers on transfer paper (to avoid what happened last time when the transfer paper bonded to the stickers) one person cleaning and prepping Chromebooks, and one person putting on the stickers. Working this way was very efficient and we will probably deliver in a similar fashion in the future.

1/6/20 - 1/10/20

This week we worked on completing our house plaque, we laser cut our names into a piece of wood that we will mount our laser cut acrylic piece onto with silver metal screws. Along with this we received news that we got a job with Mr. Dinkler for the soldier project awards. Upon hearing this we went and talked to him to discuss how many awards he needed, when he needed them by, and what materiel he preferred. After that we started cutting some of the awards and completed 6 out of 8 of the badge of honor awards. We are hoping to finish the badge of honor awards next week and find out the specifics of the other awards as well.

1/13/20 - 1/17/20

This week I started out by working on cutting some of the awards for Mr. Dinkler's soldier project. We finished cutting out the Badge of honor awards but are going to wait to cut the Best picture and Best actor awards because we are waiting on him for the quantity of best picture awards and on the names that will go on best actor. After finishing those awards I also started some preliminary sales quote calculating for the job that will need to be updated later. Then I helped some of my housemates vinyl cut a design that they will be heat pressing onto a shirt for an upcoming job.

#1 1/28/20 - 1/31/20

This week we focused on our house joust jobs. Starting off Tuesday we got the sales quote done for the jobs. We also got the requisition forms completed for the jobs. We determined that each job will cost $60 per set of awards that we create. Since the best actor awards are custom we had to talk to Mr.Dinkler and ask what 2 people won best actor in his classes. We also started production on the trophies that we hadn't already made. As of now we hope to finish production by the middle of net week and get everything completed with this job by the end of next week.

#2 2/3/20 - 2/7/20

This week we had to complete both our orders for soldier projects. To do this I had to come in at lunch and stay after school on 2 days to get everything done. We got both sets of awards delivered for Mr. Li and we will be delivering Mr. Dinklers 2 sets of awards on Friday. This will complete both of our house joust jobs and we will just be waiting on their payment. We didn't face a ton of struggles during production but one award did have a problem with it. The laser needed to be cleaned and as a result the award being cut was extremely foggy. Since we didn't want to put something out of such low quality we ended up cutting an extra award. Through this process I learned how to clean the laser which will potentially be helpful on future jobs.

#3 2/10/20 - 2/13/20

This week our house had the guitar pick job that we needed to complete. On Tuesday we determined the correct size for all of the guitar picks then we proceeded to cut them. We cut 10 picks total and then sanded them all down, by hand, to the customers liking. From there we coated some picks in mineral oil and some in lacquer to see which the customer preferred. We also got some financial housekeeping completed for our house joust jobs. We will be submitting our invoice to Mrs. Duffy as soon as she comes back and have already completed the sales order checklists for both of the house joust jobs.

#4 2/17/20 - 2/21/20

I have not been able to be in class much this week because of baseball so in the mean time I've been doing some research for a potential new job. The baseball team has a corn hole tournament each year and the winner gets a new corn hole board so i was trying to get a job for making the corn hole board. I researched how to make one and concluded that we have the ability to make one well. Upon that realization I started making a preliminary quote for the job that I can use when I present the idea to my coach.

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#5 2/24/20 - 2/28/20

This week I helped one of my house members on a T-Shirt job he had with his coworkers. We are selling 3 shirts to his coworkers and my job was to help him create the quote. We found the design time, vinyl cost and machine time but needed to wait on adding t-shirt cost because we have to order them from a special website. Kevin will be getting the sales order acknowledgement signed this weekend when he works with the customer so we will hopefully order the shirts and cut the vinyl next week. I also updated the trello page for the the shirts.

#6 3/2/20 - 3/6/20

This week a partner and I cut all of the vinyl designs for the job we were working on last week. We are now just waiting on the shirts to come in to complete our job. I also helped a house mate laser cut onto some guitar picks for a job with his uncle. We ran into a few problems with the laser settings because when we cut with the listed power and speed the image turned out in low quality. We had several guitar picks so I experimented a little and found that 55 power and 30 speed were perfect for the material of picks we were using.

#7 3/9/20 - 3/13/20

This week I completed the presentation for our house that we will use when a representative from gravity water comes by to get an idea of our program. We projected our total revenue as being around $1000 by the end of the year which our whole house believes is completely possible, so long as there are no long breaks in school within the coming weeks. I also helped with our potential job with Mrs. Eggertsen. She wants stickers for her Chromebooks so our house lord and I will be going to talk to her and hopefully getting her business. If we do get the job we will be able to start it next week.

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