Pewter Casting

Today was another time at Tamaki College doing Pewter Casting with Mr Grundy. Everyone was just showing Mr Grundy our 16 images and we choose the one that we were going to do and then he would tell us the rules when someone is carving there shape everyone has to be 1 meter away from that person and only Mr Grundy could be close. I was changing some of the images because it wasn't really good enough to use and I just went up and searched different ones that I could find that has no holes in and thats a good picture that I could trace, if it wasn't a picture I could trace then I would need to change it to something easy instead of hard. Then I saw everyone tracing there images and going upto Mr Grundy so that we could help them a bit and then they will be tracing there pictures that they will want for there necklace to be looking like. But today was just fun looking for silhouette images and some others tracing there pictures.

Tech Reflection

This week was our first session of tech with Mr Grundy. Today we looked at pewter casting to make jewelry. First we planned our designs and who our recipients were. Mr Grundy showed us the steps of creating our designs, so we could have a clear understanding on how we make it. There were a few designs we were thinking of making.

Robotics

This week on friday we had another session of tech with Mr Krishna and we were trying to use codes to get our mbot to move into a circle or figure of eight. A mbot is a little robot that you use in robotics and connect to your device and go onto ide.mblock website to control and use codes to control the mbot to move what action you want it to do, everyone gets a mbot each to use and you use any codes for you to control the mbot from moving to point A to point B, or you could also ask students around you to help you or for you to ask for them if you can use there codes. Today we needed to try and make it go into figure of eight and circle using the code that was on the t.v. screen. The circle was hard to do at first I found it more easy to do the circle by changing half of the codes and that made it more easier for me to do it. I tried to do a figure of eight but it was hard to do because I used about more than 3 codes to make it easier for me to make it possible to do.

Tech | Graphics

This week for tech we were finishing our mini pieces for our 3D games. I was painting my board for my tic tac toe game, and the rest of the year 7's just left their bored how it looks like, also some other students were making clocks, connect 4 and puzzles, and I also had a little help from people to paint my board. We could make any 3D games for what were focusing about well Mrs Ferguson helps us in graphics. We thought that graphics was gonna be boring, but then when we get to create our own 3D stuff we got happy and knew that we could create anything that was 3D, but if we were stuck on something we would get Mrs Ferguson to help us do our 3D games. What I liked about graphics was we could make our own 3D game and with Mrs Ferguson helping us to make our 3D game or something that's 3D. I had so much fun making these 3D game or clocks, puzzles and others. Also using the website tinkercad to help us with making our pieces for our game and doing some challenges on it while some of us are still working on game pieces or getting the piece of our board painted in a color or get it spray painted. We all got to do what we wanted to do, like paint it or leave it the way that it is. Thank you Mrs Ferguson for helping me do my tic tac toe game and helping me with my game pieces.

Graphics

This week for graphics with Mrs Ferguson we were creating our little pieces for our games and measuring out what type of bored were gonna have for our game pieces to be on. The 3D game that I was doing was tic tac toe and other students did different games, also such as making clocks, and puzzles and other 3D games that you could make.

Tech

For the second session of Graphics we needed to finish off our toys that makes us think of our next move or what we would do next. After we did that we had to go closer to the table and see what our teacher was doing. Later on we had to draw 3D squares. When everyone drawed a few squares we had to go back to the table and listen to what we were gonna do next. What we need to do next is shading, what we had to do is get the pencil and make light, medium, and the last one was dark. What we had to do is shade in the squares we did using light, medium, and dark to colour the square in. After we did that we used the colouring pencil to shade in the squares. We kept on carrying on with what were doing then we had to get ready and pack up. I had fun today doing tech at Tamaki Collage and I loved how we were shading.

Tech| Wood Work

This week for Tech we worked with Mr Grandy for Wood Work. We drew 8 designs and Mr Gandy had to come and look at it to see if joints are in the things we think of doing. The designs I drew was a box, chest of drawers, Piano toy, skatebored, truck, trophey,  and the jewerly tree. After I did my designs I went and put my name on the bored so that Mr Grundy can look at my designs and see which ones need the joint. The ones that need a joint was the bus and the truck. When Mr Grandy was finish Ticking my designs he said that I need one more so the ones I did was I drew a toy piano  and a truck that had joints too. When Mr Grandy came back to look my the designs I just did and then he ticked it because I had the joints on it, after Mr Grandy did it he said that I could pick any design that I wanted to make after that I chosse the box and then I flipped my page over and I had to draw the desgin. Later on Mr Gandy said who are the 3 students that are finish with there 8 designs get to have some M&M's from Mr Grandy.