Drill gauge

In metal, we have been making a drill gauge. First one was from on tinkercad and the most recent by using an aluminium piece. I have made many holes and lines from the task given to me, we made the measurements and did the drilling and slicing. We are cutting it out using handsaws (the corners which are apart of the centrepiece, which we only need the centrepiece), so we can use it when we're using drills, getting a gauge on the sizes thus the name.

Alaskan Tsunami in comparisons to some buildings

In Chaos, I have been tasked to make a graph or in my case, a list of building heights compared to the wave of the Alaskan Tsunami in 1958

Top 10 Zombie Apocalypse Rules

 In Chaos, I was tasked with making a list of the top 10 zombie apocalypse rules. Here is my list, they are very important to know about if we do ever have to experience such a situation in the world.

The Marketing Mix - Promotion

For Business and Enterprise, my group and I named FineLine yoyos made cardboard yoyos. For the promotion of our product, we had made some advertisements on google drawings but never printed them. Fast forward to Market Day and we had sold out even without giving the people the knowledge of our product, wow! 

This is one of the advertisements we worked on, very simple but in the end, we didn't create any.

We thought that anyone would purchase our product since it is a yoyo. A simple, for all ages, toy and it is an intersex product so no sexism. This product is just so the user can have some fun, it works with any lifestyle, I think. It could be used as a stress-controlling item or something to cure boredom.

In reality, we never really did spread the word of our product we just hoped people that walked by would be interested in purchasing it. We did have some google drawings which we were planning to print and put around the school but the reality check is that most people will be doing other things like chatting and playing then inspecting adverts.

This strategy we have chosen to use does not at all really appeal to the target market, it does aim at all people but it's going for the people that are active enough to look at all stools just to see what everyone is selling.

Our business prioritised place as the area we chose to sell was close to the 'bank', the place in which people traded real money for paper money that only works with stools at the Market day. Our location wasn't super close to the 'bank but many still walked by and some purchased our product (thanks to all that bought our product). We had a good location in conclusion.

Do you think our product was worth it? Was the stool placement good and did the price seem reasonable?

I think my group and I did badly at promotion since, in the end, we did not go out of our way to promote and advertise it. I am just glad we somehow sold out and made a profit, it was amazing to know even a product you don't have faith in can sell.

Contradiction

In this slideshow for chemicals, I have shown the work of contraction with a pan with hot particles on it and three trios of ice below it. The particles were moving around and being very hot but due to the absence of a flame, they have slowed and cooled ending up bunched together. The reason for the quickened speed of the cooling is from the ice.

B&E - Reflection

 1. Was your business a success? Why/why not?

It was, because we sold all our products somehow since some were not in the best condition but it surprised me that there was one that was falling apart that sold.

2. How much profit you made/lost - if known

We made $22 dollars in profit since we spent $12 and made $34 in total.

3. 3 things you learnt from B&E 

1. would be that no matter what the product is, people will buy it (even if it is a small group of buyers)

2. Teamwork is needed to work and function as a team 

3. If you slack you will fall behind and not be able to sell a product

4. What things would you change next time?

Getting on top of the work and even though having a laugh is good, it won't get any work done. Having communication at the start and doing the work which is required from us. Toning down the joking around.

5. Highlights from the day

A highlight would be having fun hanging with mates and seeing all our products being bought.

Marketing Mix - Place

We are selling yoyos on Market day and were are planning on having our stool anywhere close to the public eye 

 Where will you be producing your product?  

We are making our yo-yo's in M5 and on the laser cutter, we are using M5 as a point where we build and stick the parts of the yo-yo together. The laser cutter is for cutting out the parts of the cardboard and we are bulking them so when we return to M5 we can create the yo-yos.

Where would a good location be for your product on Market Day?

1 think that it works really anywhere, outside inside it doesn't matter unless we really want the public eye then we will want to be somewhere that is where the people are all coming in from. Outside will be more open and aware to the public but inside is nice and easy to have set up.

Pedestrian and traffic flow (does your business rely on people walking past or is your product unique enough that people will seek you out?)

Our product is more likely to not be seen by the public due to it only being an innovated and environmental version of the yoyo so we are more relying on the public to be looking at every stall and not skipping some.

Competition - who else will be selling similar products to you on Market day? How will your product stand out?

I don't think we have competition but if we do then we're probably gonna be beaten because we don't really stand out. Hopefully, a group of people will be interested in our product and will purchase it.

I think that the yoyos will be seen eventually on the day after a bit of time and that it will stick out to more of an older audience, adults and not the youth.

Would you buy this product?

Can Experiement

 AIM: To see what happens when you put a heated can in cold water

Hypothesis: What will happen? I think the can will go cold when it enters the cold water in the ice cream container even though it was put at near boiling in the sprite can.

Conclusion: We watched the can be put on the aliment to then be heated to a close-to boiling point, later it was put in the ice cream container which had the coldest water we could put in it. It had contracted as soon as the cold water entered through the can's opening and once they both made contact and the reason is that the heat causes the water particles to be moving really fast and cold had their particles moving slow. The cold water slowed the heated water particles and changed the pressure making a sudden change which caused an implosion of the can.

Ki o Rahi

 History: Based on the Purakau (legend) of Rahitutakahina and the rescue of his wife Tiarakurapakewai. The tākaro is a reflection of Tupuna storytelling at its best, as well as provides an insight into the way in which they would explain and design Tākaro to reflect their unique "world view". The Papa Tākaro (field) layout of Ki o Rahi and the way the Tākaro is played is a perfect example of this.

Two teams: Kioma and Taniwha

6 Rules of the game:

Taniwha score by hitting the Tupu with the Kī. Kīoma will have Kaitiaki (guardians) around the Tupu to stop Taniwha from hitting the Tupu.

Taniwha scores by throwing the ki by throwing it at the barrel

Kioma score by touching the 7 pous with the ki but don't need to hit all 7

Taniwha must stop Kīoma from scoring by either touching, 2 handed touches, ripping the tag or tackling them in the appropriate area.

Must be running with ki or if standing then need to pass in the 3-5 seconds

 Played 4 quarters or 2 halves of a set time, teams alternate roles of Kioma and taniwha at half or quarter  

Market Mix - Product

My group on Market Day will be planning on selling cardboard yo-yo's, we are thinking of making a profit which is decent, something that's maybe a little over in what we spent like double but over some more.

In this blog, I am exploring the product part of the Market Mix. The features of the yo-yo are that its made out of reuseable cardboard, they can be disposed of easily and they're a great time of joy to play with. It is sustainable but weaker and less durable than an actual yo-yo which is made out of plastic and metal, the size of the yo-yo is 3cm by 3cm in height and length and the width is not too sure The packaging is none, it will be sold in no casing. The materials that are being used are cardboard, hot glue gun and string which will only cost $12 due to we only need to buy the string. This is an innovated product of the yo-yo, and we only need to advertise by putting up some posters or online.

I feel that my group's product is going to make at least some type of profit, something over what we paid. The quality may not be the best since its made out of cardboard but it will be sustainable, and that is great for the environment.

 

Science/Chemicals - Particle Theory

 In chemicals, we are learning about the three states of matter, they are solid, gas and liquid. We also have looked at particles and the meaning behind what each state means, close meaning solid, a little far apart meaning liquid and a lot of space being gas. Solid stay close, Liquid will take volume but not shape and gas does not have a definite shape or volume and will take up the area it is in.

Diffusion: Movement of particles from high concentration to low concentration.

E.g. a smell which stinks or B.O. will spread but will lose its space taken up after a short amount of time

AIM: Observe the effect of temp on the speed of diffusion

Hypothesis: I thought it was going to not be that interesting and I thought the heated water would speed up the amount of space which the chemical would take up and the colder would be slower.

Method: We got two Petri dishes and filled either one with either cold or hot and then we got the chemical dropped in each, we observed the result

Observation and Explanation: We had put Potassium Permognate in two Petri dishes each have cold or warm water. The observation showed that the heat did speed up the amount of space the chemical took up, and the cold was at a slower pace. But in the end, they would take up all the space in the container.

The reason the hotter liquid had the chemical spread faster was that the particles in the heated liquid were moving faster and pushing out the chemical quicker.

9/11 timeline

Made with Visme Infographic Maker

In Chaos, I have been tasked with choosing an independent task

from a matrix and the one I have completed one of the many to choose

from, I chose 9/11 and I had the job of making a timeline. In the timeline

I have made it tell about the times and events leading to Bill Clinton 

declaring America has sustained a terror attack and will get America's 

allies of the country and itself to take down terrorism.

Marketing Pitch of everyday item

In Business Studies we have been tasked with making a market pitch for an everyday item, we chose a Tissue box, me and Tyson. We chose a tissue box because it was a simple easy product to make the public purchase it.

Disection of Rat - Biology

Today we have dissected a rat, it was an enjoyable but terrible experience. The enjoyable part was seeing what was inside 'Michael', his organs. The terrible part was having to get the whiff of the insides, it was getting worse every sniff. An interesting part was seeing Michael's testicles in Peni's hand, us humans do not deserve to have the power we have on Earth.

30second film - Film Study

In film study, we have been assigned with the task of making a 30-35 second film which tells a story about anything. We chose to do ours about a junior who sneaks into the learning commons on a normal sunny day and is caught by a teacher, in my group, there were Tobey, Lincoln and Chris.
Here is the video:


What I enjoyed about the filming was how easy the planning and filming was, the flow was simple and never got to the complexity that we didn't want. Every scene was easy to put together, there wasn't much planning to each scene as it was not difficult to know what was gonna happen next.

Our cast was Me being the Teacher, Lincoln being the Junior Student, Tobey being the Senior Student and Chris being both the Cameraman and Editor.

What challenged us was minor, like finding the song/s to put in, in the editing phase. Not much of a challenge during the recording phase and planning.

We had 3 weeks to do this task and I found it alright, it was surely fun to do something of our own like this short film. It was ok to have shots filmed of myself, being one of the two main characters and act out parts which were crucial for the story.

Buainess Studies - Innovation Challenge

Innovation challenge \

1. Picture of what I want to innovate:

Sleeping bag

2. My product which I want to innovate is sleeping bags, the way it is used currently is that you take it out of a bag and unravel it then lastly climb in. I dislike the fact that there is no built-in pillow or heating/cooling system which is lightweight.
3. I would like it if the bag in which you put it in could extend so putting it back is easier and not time-consuming
4. That depends on which one you get, there are thick and heat building ones and there are light thin ones which will keep you warm but not hot. They are used to sleeping in and some are quite comfortable, some can be as good as sleeping in your own bed.
5. We could add a built-in pillow and a lightweight heating/cooling system. These two added features could make sleeping bags more popular as long as it stays the same price as most good sleeping bags or maybe cheaper if the company is willing to make sales in their products but not as much moolah as if they had the same amount sold for a higher price.
6. Not relevant
7. Have a control panel which is easy to use like a dial which is right for heat and left for cold with red and blue respectively. Having the pillow be locked in place so that over time the product doesn’t mess up with the pillow ending up at the bottom and same with the heating pads locked in as well.
8. Cold/heating system - Advantages: gives heating and cooling - Disadvantages: requires batteries and can disfunction if wires are torn (like all electronics)

Built-in pillow - Advantages: comfy for your head - Disadvantages: Quality may drop after a few years of use

9. Choose one of your ideas and create an advertisement (e.g. online add or in a magazine) to help you sell your innovation. Make sure you highlight why your product is better than others that are on the market at the moment.

Community Garden - Sustainability

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GcuQPz17i2P0LCeSEys9RcaCNcEYRajjfHJNhmAUjZI/edit

In sustainability, we have learned how to use different types of shapes to fit in the garden so that space can be used correctly and enough space is created in the plots for a family of four. I had found it alright with finding the plots to build in, although Jeff and I had to restart after one build wasn't enough to feed a family of four. The shapes used were trapeziums, quarter circles and compound rectangles.

CMM - Customed Dog Tags

Recently we have created three dog tags each with a name on it, preferably. We created these in tinkercad, I had two of them made out of acrylic and one wood. We had to send them to Mr as a DXF from an SVG which we converted.

Business Studies - Steve jobs draft work

Steve Jobs - Draft - Entrepreneur

Steve Job’s was born, February 24th 1955 to two  University of Wisconsin graduate students, Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali. They placed their unnamed child up for adoption, and he was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. Throughout Job’s childhood, he learnt about electronics and chips, how to build them with his adopted father in their family garage. Steve Wozniak was a computer nerd and worked at HP while Steve Jobs worked at Atari. Between the two of them, their love of making things easier and simpler lead to them designing small devices such as the infamous Blue Boxes. These little devices could be connected to your phone to make free long-distance calls. Wozniak and Jobs attended a computer club together, where Wozniak saw a MITS Altair. This build-it-yourself computer inspired him to attempt throwing together a computer at home with cheap parts he had on hand.Ultimately, this led to what would be known as the Apple I, which was constructed with a simple keyboard and TV, and he built the motherboard on a piece of plywood. Steve Jobs saw this and offered to fund its production by selling his van.

 Apple Computer was founded on April 1, 1976, with its home computer product marketed at $666.66 each. They managed to earn enough money to move out of the garage and begin work on the Apple II. During the ’80s, Steve felt like he didn’t want to run the company while overlooking production. So he talked with the CEO of Pepsi, John Sculley to have a few roles in the company and so he did. This allowed Jobs to continue interacting with the development teams without interruption. Xerox was looking for ways to compete and had a graphical interface and pointing device they didn't like. Steve Jobs saw it and got it from them immediately, seeing its potential. This started the creation of the Lisa and Macintosh with two development teams fighting for dominance. Jobs had felt interested in the development of the Lisa but ultimately both Lisa 1 and 2 failed to make great success, the 2nd was half the cost than the first and the Lisa 1 was pricey and the software couldn’t beat other companies’. In ‘84 the Macintosh was released with much glee from Apple. In 1985 everything was going downhill, the company was filled with fighting, Wozniak left due to feeling the company wasn’t going the way he had imagined and Job’s being very eager with ideas to be shared for products. CEO Scully and the board decided that Jobs was too hot-headed and began stripping him of roles that he had in the business until he was barely a figurehead. Ultimately Steve Jobs left, or was fired, depending on who you ask. Apple soon went terrible, having bad sells on new products and was becoming absolutely trash.


Steve had now seen a new beginning with starting NeXT with a few employees. At NeXT Jobs made two computers, The first was revealed through a keynote presentation in ‘88 and did not be a huge success, only selling in the hundreds and having a hefty price tag. The 2nd computer just couldn’t make any sales and get attention, it sold at $5k 1990 money. By ‘93 NeXT was shrinking, and so Jobs sold the hardware department to Cannon and decided to put all his attention on, software. The new operating system, NeXTSTEP, had a colourful GUI and held many improvements still used today.

Research - Digestive System

This week we have been assigned to make a research project on the Digestive System. I have done the task with the help of my group of Chris, Lincoln and me, this was interesting to find out about some of the organs that consist of the Digestive System.