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WEEK 14

Week 14: This week’s task began on Wednesday and lasted for about a week. My classmates and I had to think of an idea that would be easy to create, creative and incorporates using form and design learned from tech. class. Given a day to think about it, everyone came back the next day with an idea set in their head. With this idea set, everyone would come together, stand in front of the class and explain their ideas to their fellow peers.

Coming into school the next day with an idea in mind to share with our peers.

My idea was inspired by Frances Glessner Lee. This woman is known best as “the mother of forensics” because she created over 10 small rooms that look exactly like a murder scene, but a doll version. It inspired me because I’m really interested in forensics, so I thought, “why not make a house?” When I presented this idea to my classmates, many of them were surprised because they thought I wanted them to make a MURDER house when this in fact was false, I wanted them to create any house to their interests.

Photo image of Frances Glessner Lee working on the houses.

The reason I chose the idea of a house is because every house has its own unique form, so if everyone were to create a house, every design would be different from another. It would also allow individuals to be more patient because building a house requires small detail and lots, and lots of effort.

After everyone pitched in their idea, the teacher (Mr. Currie) wrote every idea on Sketchbook Pro. From here, we all yelled out the answer “yes” or “no” on whether we should keep this idea to take it away.

From yelling “no” for numerous ideas, the class was between a pick from either a chess piece or a headphone set holder. The chess piece was overruled, and thus we decided that the chess piece would be against two sides of the class. The class could pick any theme, and my team decided on a space theme. As there were 9 of us, we decided to split the work, individuals or partners would work on 1 piece of the chess of their choice.

"yes", "no"? The class deciding on whether to keep this idea, or erase it.

My partner and I decided to do the queen piece. The dimensions were given on Google Classroom, and we were set to go. 0.85 inches in diameter and 3 inches in height, my partner and I decided to do a Saturn planet, with a crown on its head to represent the queen.

The plan was to create 4 parts:

The sphere (for Saturn) (my partner will do)

< >The ring (of Saturn) A crown The star (this is the base)

The two parts that I will be creating on Solidworks are the crown and the star base. Thus, for the remainder of this week, and following into week 15 (until Thursday), we will work on our chess piece before the winter break.