All Saints’ College recently bought some chicken. Students were selected to care for the chickens.
In term 2, we started the project to care for the chickens during innovat-ed. I was assigned to a group and our job was to create a sustainable bedding for the chickens. In my group was Brooke, Rohail and Paul.
Goals
Some of my groups goals were…
- Finding sustainable bedding for the chickens
- Finding a way to source this material
Process
In the first few weeks of caring for chickens, my group and I researched sustainable bedding. We found many sources and ways to make sustainable bedding but we had no ways to make it. After doing a lot of research and ideating, we decide that buying a shredder would be our best option.
In the first lesson, we had the shredder we tried many materials. At first, we tried cardboard tho that just got blocked and if it didn’t it came out in huge chunks. We then moved on to sticks and twigs. These materials worked well in the shredder since they came through easy and didn’t get blocked.
Showcase
On the day of the showcase, we decided to show the old bedding compared to the new one, this meant that our audience could see and feel the bedding. As a group, we decided that we would split into 2 groups going different tasks. I was in a group with Rohail, we were presenting all our findings and achievements over the term. In the other group was Paul, he was helping out with the tours, showing people our work.
Challenges
One of the challenges we faced was on the showcase day. Since Brooke was not there, this meant we had to compromise and come up with an idea to solve the problem. After collaborating for some time we split into groups solving the problem.
The second challenge we faced was finding a way to produce the sustainable chicken bedding.
Capabilities
Collaboration
During the ideate process we had to collaborate. We were tasked to come up with ideas solving our problem. We each came up with multiple ideas, so we compromised joining each idea with another making all of them better.
Reflection
Overall my time doing this project was very fun. We got to try many new things and just caring for the chickens was very joyful.
