The final stage of this task is to produce an e-portfolio entry to summarise the engineering process.
Your e-portfolio should have the following parts:
This project was very hard to meet all the requirements needed. Our tower met all the requirements but lacked how stable it was. Our tower was very unstable and breaking lot when we left it overnight. It took us a long time to get the right type of building with was the best. We did a lot of research to come up with our design.
When designing the tower we would use builds that are made for earthquakes, to better enhance the chance of our tower not falling. We did some trial and error when testing our first design, and at the end, we had around 3 to 4 different designs with our last one being the most successful. We would draw an idea of how our tower would look like, then we would build it and then test it, if the test goes wrong or we can’t build what we drew, we would change it to make a similar design from the drawing. Then we would see of the new design works or not.
Teamwork and collaboration:
Our team teamwork is all about communication and working as a team. I think we split our work quite equally, even though most of us were away. We had a team group chat to talk about anything from this project. Each of us used our strength to complete our tower. I was very hands-on with the building because I enjoy building things.
Overall the project for me was very successful with all the aspects being quite good.
Throughout the year English has been my weakest in all mesh subjects, but this year I think I have made significant improvements in grammar, spelling and more. In term 1 task 2 I wrote a script, in this task I earned 60%, higher than most of my writing work components. in this task, I was lucky to use a script-writing site, which helped me a lot with the structure and layout, I could put all of my scenes super easily and tell the story I wanted to tell.
Term 2 task 3 I worked in a group with Jininng, Chloe and Eva, we filmed a current affairs segment, it was about eshay trashing the school. We all had different roles to act in, the roles were Eva – Mr Gatti (teacher), anchor, student and eshay, Chloe – Ms Shaw (teacher), Student, and eshay, Jinning – reporter and the editor (she edited the video) and Me (Haley) – student, Mr Haxby (teacher), eshay, these were the role we had and used it to work together to achieve a good video.
Throughout the market, I think I used collaboration to help and support my groupmates when they needs it.
During the process of making our product we had many complications but worked together to solve them. I think we have great teamwork and can collaborate well throughout the market. One of the hardest things we had to do is to work around our after-school activities, most of us have many other commitments that are hard to find a day we can all meet together, but at the end we finished and sold lots.
Capabilities
When making our product, we used organisation, problem-solving, and collaboration. An example of that is when one of the fabric padding was too small and we had improvised a way to go past it, so we just sewed on the padding in the centre.
There are many more examples that show that we can work together and get things done. When the market we fast approaching, we were not very prepared for it, But on the next two lessons we got everything done and was ready to sell our produts.
What I would do better
If I did this again I would like to change how we decorated our table. This is because it was quite hard to keep every thing togther and safe, some of the plants we used were messy and big, it did not really compliment our whole vibe. A other thing my group should working on is what we are ment to do on the market day, this is because all of us would go out and look at other stall and leave one there by themselves. But overall i think my group did very well and sold a lot.
Overall
The total outcome of this market was exciting and fun. I think I had a lot of fun working with people I had not to work with before. I like how I can learn new skills and knowledge from my groupmates.
The whole experience was fun and I learn new things quickly. $20 Boss will help me with jobs in the future.
2022 Semester 2
This semester I did $20 boss again but i went into a different group
I am writing to you about the very concerning problem of Australia’s overfishing. Overfishing is the act of fishing excessively that depletes the fish species. An analysis shows that 17.5% of Australian fishes are fished too heavily. Australia is home to many amazing marine life which are not found anywhere else in the world. Unfortunately, commercial fishing puts our ocean wildlife in danger.
I believe that as a Member of Parliament, you are in a position to help. Overfishing continues because our marine resources are poorly managed. Our government regulations are not strong enough to limit overfishing and difficult to enforced. However, we could set simple standards that require fishermen and vendors to label their sold fishes with information of where the fish came about. These disclosures will help the supplier to only purchase fishes from legalise fishing methods.
We could also create more marine protected areas. More no-catch zones would help fish populations and their ecosystem to recover. If we can just double the protected areas in Australia, it would make a difference to the population of fishes in the ocean.
Finally and most importantly, is to educate our citizen and spread the word! More campaigns for awareness of overfishing would be helpful and people would start to make smart consumer choices such as buying sustainable fishes or even local fisheries.
Please do consider how overfishing are impacting Australia. We need to think of our future generation. If overfishing continues, more species will be extinct and our aquatic ecosystem will collapse. By 2050, we probably would not have any fish left in the ocean!!!!
Our topic is deforestation. We want to show the impact when trees are cut down. We use funny scenes and educational parts to show how big the impact is when one tree is cut down.
When we first wanted to find our idea we looked at change (the topic for the competition), and we slowly cut the ones we did not like or were not interested in. We first started writing the script down and sharing it with everyone in our group. We gave everyone a role according to our script. We started by filming all the scenes that we can in one lesson. After we have finished all the scenes we started editing the video.
When we were filming we had some disagreement about where we filmed. After that, we rarely had any disagreements. When we did argue we all find a way to resolve the issue. E.g. when we did not agree on where to film, we just listened and find more ideas. (We just went with the original idea.)
We first started by thinking time and place we will be filming. we checked the time and always use small amounts of time. Most of our places are near or at the same place. (We film some at the same time.)
Some of the thing I think we should work on is a costume, places to film, and time. I think we should work on this because most of us forgot costumes and we had to film without them, making it odd. some of the places we filmed was loud and did not really fit the scene. sometimes we slacked off and talked instead of filming.
Overall I think my group is really good when filming and communicating when we are talking.
Family is the highest percentage on my values house because they are a key to my happiness, my confidence ,and strength though out the day. Family will make me laugh and I always have fun with them if I’m down. They will always lighten the mood at dinners, at home or at the shops with jokes or just being funny. My family helps me believe in myself and boosts my self esteem every day. They always help me with any goal I would like to achieve. They always compliment when I’m dancing even if I do really bad, they comfort me if I feel this way and tell me that people might not notice if I’m on stage. Every morning I have hot food because of my family. They make food for my siblings and myself. This helps me not go hungry or get moody. For me family any comes first because they always help me with anything that is a problem.
Traditions 15%
Tradition help families experience thing that are in there culture and believes each year. Families get to feel and express there family’s culture and there believes from the past. My family’s culture is Chinese and every year we celebrate Chinese new year, lantern festival and more. This helps me connect with my family.
Kindness 15%
Kindness is key to making friend and not being lonely at school or work. For me kindness always help me with making friends. When people is kind to others there kindness will be returned back to them. Random act of kindness will always light someone day. People who show kindness will never be forgotten in the hearts of others.
Task 2
Healthy (IU K-pop/Kdrama, actor and singer)
1. What behaviors does this person demonstrate to show that they are healthy?
My role model, IU is a Korean pop artist based in Korea. What makes IU different from others stars is that she has been named “Nation’s Sweetheart” by the people of Korea. IU also surprises people with her kindness all over the world. IU always shows kindness to people need, like when the Covid outbreak had just started IU donate medical equipment funds for medical staffs or In 2015 IU donated 1000,000 to a charity and choose not to tell the public about it, there was an amazing act of kindness that IU does over the years. This shows that IU is not only famous, she is also kind, helpful and thoughtful. IU wants to show awareness to her fan and Korea about different matters.
2.What do they look like? Are they healthy? How do you know?
IU is Korean with most of the Korean beauty standards. IU was brought up in a poor environment (property). IU’s family had debt out of there control and end up putting them in bankruptcy. Sadly IU’s parents sent IU and her brother to her Grandmother. Some of the conditions they had to live in is heartbreaking, IU and her brother had to live is a small room filled to bugs. Soon IU and her brother moved to other relative’s home. IU was always discourage by her family (relative) every time she sang.
IU has learnt how it feels to be in a poor family or environment and she wants to spread her story to not give up and follow your dream like her (anything can happen).
3.What message does this person promote? Why is it inspiring and healthy?
IU is a role model to many Korean kids all ages with her heart felt songs. She also show kindness though her random acts of kindness (explained in question 1). From my research (not accurate) IU wants to show kids about kindness and her story to help not hurt.
4.Why should young people look up to this person as a role model?
IU is hard working and has big believes that people can’t change. Having someone like that will show them if you want something you will need to work and persist thought hard times like IU to meet there dream. Even though IU might not have a big international following but she still show that to her fans (Uaenas).
5.Thinking back to your House of Values activity, what values does this person demonstrate?
Some of the values that IU has is kindness, love, caring and family.
Kindness because IU always supports people she does not know and she always donate her hard earn money to people who needs it more. Love because she always puts others before her. She also takes care of her brother when he needed it, this show deep love for people. Caring was also explain in love. Family because she shows love to her brother and parents. When IU became a famous singer she could pay her family and buy her dad his dream car that he could not afford.
Unhealthy (Abby Lee Miller)
1.What behaviours does this person demonstrate to show that they are unhealthy?
Abby Lee Miller is most well know for being on the reality show ‘Dance Moms’ staring as the mean dance intruder. In most of the episodes in dance moms Abby Lee Miller is mostly shouting or make rude remarks about her student’s dancing skills. Some of the episodes also have one part where Abby Lee Miller ranks her students by using a pyramid layout. (picture of the pyramid).
In 2015 Abby Lee Miller was charged with fraud after operating a secret bank account between 2012 and 2013. She used that bank account to hide money made with Tv deals, merchandise sales and masterclasses. Then Abby Lee Miller was accused of fake bankruptcy declaration, hiding bankruptcy assets, and bankruptcy fraud. However, she pleaded ‘not guilty’ in November 2015.
2.What do they look like? Do they look unhealthy? How do you know?
Abby Lee Miller is 56 year old who has suffered cancer at the age of 52 (fully recovered). Many articles were posted about Abby Lee Miller’s cancer when the news broke out to the public. Now Abby Lee Miller is posting content on Tik Tok, Instagram, and YouTube. Some of her video contain other content created.
3.What message does this celebrity promote? Why is it unhealthy?
(There is no solid information about Abby Lee Miller’s message she wants to promote.)
Some of the thing that Abby Lee Miller might be promoting is about dance and the different techniques people must know. Abby Lee Miller wants to promote dance and how fun, she want to show how competitive on the day of competition.
4. Do you think young people should look up to this person as a role model? Why or why not?
I think that kids should not look up to Abby Lee Miller because of the way she treats others. When she was on Dance Moms she made rude comments and always started drama (she also did that outside of the show). Abby Lee miller is mostly known for her shouting rude things or thing that someone needs to improve on in a very rude voice.
5.Is everything you hear, read or see in the media true? Discuss.
All the thing people see online might not be true because people might have changes it to make it more exciting and appealing to read. Even thought there is evidence people still should not jump to conclusions and send hate online.
