InnovatED project Year 8

Our finished stall during the showcase.

Just recently we had our InnovatED project. I was in the art group and at first we were given a very vague explanation and rules on what our project could be. All we knew is that it had to make a positive difference. I knew I wanted to do something hands on because I learn more with hands on projects and thought back to the time I made blankets for cats in Japan during the winter time back in 2015.

From this thought I came up with the idea that we would donate these blankets to Cat Haven because thats where I got my own cat from and the colder months were approaching. It was a very brief idea but it still was possible. I came up with many random designs involving pets and other random foods.

One of the basic random designs I made for the blankets (I think it was a living potato) I didn’t continue this idea because it had no correlation to cats and it took too long to make.

At first I did a lot of research on what materials cats liked and then did some basic designs of the blankets. A few weeks into the project I was joined by two other students and we worked together to make these blankets possible. We were given suggestions by teachers to contact the place we were giving the blankets to (Cat Haven) to get a better idea of what they needed. After that we created our first prototype which we tested on my cat Arlo. He loved it and slept with it for multiple nights one small problem with this is that he used it as a pillow instead of a blanket and Cat Haven doesn’t accept pillows. We are still working on the design to make it seem more like a blanket.