Our Woodwork Project:
Throughout our time in Materials Tech. (Woodwork) we have focused most of our time on making our LED Trophy Projects. Which is theoretically an opaque plate of acrylic, clear acrylic and a wooden base combined to make our project, along with our circuits to light our clear acrylic piece. Although it each piece sounds fairly simple when you get into actually focusing on making each and single piece it is very complicated! Throughout the process of making our projects we used a multitude of different machinery, including a laser cutter, multiple types of drills, and saws and much more. Before beginning the actual production of our project we had to draw isometric drawings, of our LED stand, and what it would look like once we finished production. (Isometric drawings being practically a 3-D model of something). Besides the fact that I am not typically the woodworking, machinery type of person, it was extremely fun to experience something new.
ZCapabilities used throughout our time in Materials Technology:
Throughout the Materials technology and the process of making our project probably the main and most used capabilities for me, throughout our time at Materials Tech were communication and collaboration. We had to be able to collaborate effectively in order to learn from other’s mistakes, which made the production process of our project much more efficient and or easier. Although the project itself was individual, the process of making our project was made more efficient through collaboration and communication as stated. Some other capabilities that we used were perseverance, planning and creativity. Perseverance was essential when it came time to actually producing our project due to the fact that there were certainly some moments when you had no idea where to go from there, and you had to have perseverance in order to overcome those moments and continue pushing on through the production. Eventually all of us came out with our finished projects. Planning and creativity were both needed due to the fact that in order to make our projects unique we needed to have creativity and planning before beginning our production.