Week #6 Going Back Shopping

We started week #6 looking back at our shopping cart designs. On Monday we decided what sketched design we would use. Our final decision was the circular cart with a ball as the wheel so it can move in all directions. We thought about the dimensions and supplies we would use. The cart will be a few inches higher than a meter, and we will be using hulla hoops, PVC pipe, a soccer ball and duct tape. The next step is to get used to working with the CAD software for a few days.

Closing up Week #5

This week has come to an end with the beginning of the 21st Century Shopping Cart. The first step in the design process was brainstorming at least 10 ideas.

1. Put a handle on the front of the cart
2. Put handles on all sides
3. Make the cart a different shape (oval/circle)
4. Make the wheels more like the ball of a mouse
5. The cart has a rack for fruits and fragile items aside from others
6. Put a scanner on the handle to tally up the cost of items
7. Make a cart that can roll in all directions
8. Where the child sits put a small screen that they can watch videos on
9. Have the cart on a single wheel shaped as a ball
10. A shopping cart that flies around the store and automatically puts the items you want into the cart

The second step was to sketch out two different possible designs for your groups shopping cart.

Step 3 is to find three facts about a shopping cart

1. 24,000 children are injured every year by a shopping cart
2. One of the first shopping carts was made in Oklahoma in 1937
3. The price is usually between $75-$150

Bonus- Supper Advertising Week #5

We have entered week #5 after the Sunday Super Bowl. On Monday we just chilled and I worked on Minecraft during Mr. Olson's absence. Today we are getting a move on with this new week and Bonus Challenges are going to be introduced for us to have a chance to get points.

The 2013 Super Bowl commercial for Budweiser caught my attention the most.



I think that the part that made it memorable to me was the concept of "brotherhood." A lot of people who grow up together from a very early age will be friends forever. Pets also do this, sometimes if a pet gets lost or given away they might try to get back to their owner.

To run a commercial for 30 seconds during the Super Bowl can cost $4 Million or more.

Not only do you have to pay to run the commercials, but they also have to pay to make them. In this case they had to pay for the horses, the actors, I'm sure they had to pay for things for the parade part.

It costs roughly $4 million to air the commercial on Super Bowl day, and add another $3 hundred thousand or so to make the commercial. Adding those together if you bought a bunch of 12 packs at a cost of  $18.89 they would need to sell at least 22,7634 packs.

I definitely think they will be able to cover the cost with their product.

TED Part II Week #4

Objective

1. Our group has officially chosen what video we will be using.
2. We each explained the content of our videos to each other.
3. Patrick was the lucky person and we decided to use his video.
4. To prepare for our presentation we will each watch the video on our own after school and take a few notes so we can construct our open ended questions to ask the class.

TED Part I : Week #4 Begins

How art technology and design inform creative leaders

1. The TED organization is about completing their mission of "Ideas Worth Spreading."

2. The purpose of their website is to bring the experience of TED conferences online for anyone to watch. They have a new talk put up every weekday and you can search videos with filters.

3. The topics of most interests to use would be technology, design, and then business. We constantly need to be educated about the technology that surrounds us. Design is important especially in the engineering class we are taking, designing is a crucial part to making something.  Business is also important because if you want to get a job in a company being able to understand business might make you look more educated and qualified.

4. Three videos that relate to question 3: All it takes is 10 mindful minutes, How great leaders inspire actions, and Why architects need to use their ears. The first choice kind of shows if you take aside a few minutes and observe greatly it might be beneficial. The second video is because great leaders influence us to become better problem solvers. The last one's tittle is what really speaks to me, I believe in many jobs it is necessary to use as many senses you are able too.

5.

• MIT- learned a lot about computers
• Art school- he made a human computer: People play the different parts of the computer
• How to intertwine and connect teachnology, design, art, and leadership
• We are stuck in a loop of technology
• Difference between content and form design: "Fear"
• Content of this word is the definition, how it makes someone feel, and how it is spelled
• Form is the font, the size, the color, the position on the page
• Form can change the some of the content by changing the appearance (when the font is big it stands out makes you notice the words meaning, but if its font is funny the meaning can be so much less to you)
• Art: is about asking questions
• Sometimes doing something the old way is better than new ways (at an art school the students can not draw from pictures, they even use animals that have died and been stuffed). This is an example of how now many people use photographs or 3D graphics
• "Old" combined with "New" makes "Good"
• Leadership: is about asking a lot of questions because we aren't so simple anymore
• Traditional Leaders: love to avoid mistakes, and  want to be right
• Creative Leaders: loves to learn from mistakes, and hope to be right
• Leaders connect improbable connections and hope something will happen
• Powershop- is kind of like a brainstorm chart
• A CEO starts in the middle and are connected by lines to different branches in the company and each point representing a branch is red(poor) or green(good) to show how they're doing. Then you can click on those points and they expand to more lines connecting other little departments inside those. If one of those is clicked it opens up more lines connecting people to the branches. Some of those people will have lines connected to other branches and departments.
• When you are viewing the people you can look at the relations you have with them (when you have called, emailed, texted, or went out to coffee).
• These things can help leaders create better connections or different ways to lead better.

6. You can get involved with this by letting yourself experiencce these three concepts and try to add them to the way you are a leader. I think you would only need to open yourself up to learn in other areas and then work on combining these new things to the way to lead.

Minecraft-Architecture Challenge- The end of Week #3

Wow! Learning how to use Minecraft is so much fun. It has taken some time, but I have finally gotten used to the main logistics to know. Luckily I have a group that is very supportive and helpful. As a team we decided to construct an architectural structure based on Frank Lloyd Wright. I chose to build something with his most famous project the Falling Water. Here are some screenshots of my house:

Minecraft: Week 3

Week #3 began with the introduction to Minecraft. Logins were given to everyone and the games began. I thought teamwork was crucial for me because it was really confusing to me at first because I didn't have any experience with it.