Where I am at for the HASS project Part 2

Mason Cailes-Spence

What we have completed:

We have completed the script and started filming our HASS film. The filming went well and we managed to complete a large number of scenes, only leaving about an hour left of filming to do as well as a few hours of editing. I expect that the film will be finished on Monday next week.

 

What we need to complete:

We need to complete the film by Monday as well as edit. We also need to work on the second part of the project which is a poster to go alongside the film that provides information about escapes from concentration camps during WW2.

Prototype and Design

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Game Title:

 

Duty Calls

 

Write an overview of your game:

What is the backstory?

You are in a maze of hard tunnels and you have a few hours before the dungeon master gets back to kill you

What is the inspiration?

Call of duty

What genre is it?

Puzzle

Why is it appropriate for the target audience

Because it’s engaging and age appropriate

 

Game Objectives

Identify the objectives here. Be specific.

Get to the identified check point without getting killed

 

Does the character need to interact with any other sprites? What is the purpose and how do they do this?

The character needs to interact with the checkpoint in order to complete the level

 

How do you win the level?

By getting to the exit point

 

How do you win the game?

By completing all the given levels

 

 

Sprites

Hero: Red block

Villain: Black Block

Other: Moving obstacles

Check point: Glowing yellow

 

 

Game Images

Where I am at for my HASS Semester 2 project

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As part of our Year 10 humanities course, we are able to research a project of our own choice, and to create an outcome to showcase at a final exhibition in term 4. We had the opportunity to choose a variety of topics to choose from, all of which we had learnt about during HASS. This included economics, history, geography, and civics. The topic that I have chosen to research is and base our project on is WW2 history.


The steps that I have completed so far are:


1. First, chose what to as part of our project regarding history, which we decided to do a short film about a Jew escaping a concentration camp.
2. Next, we did research on people who escaped concentration camps and how they got out
3. After that, we started looking at costume design and to see how affordable a nazi uniform would be
4. After that, we started writing a script for our movie and deciding the roles that we will have


Our plan for continuing our project includes

1. Finish writing the script for our project
2. Get costumes for our project
3. 3D print weapon props and other props
4. Successfully film and edit the movie
5. Present project and get a good mark

Global Goals Entry

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During our time in Global goals this semester, we were tasked looking at the United Nations sustainable global goals. The sustainable global goals are goals created by the United Nations to fix issues in this planet. There are 17 global goals, they range from climate change and life below water, to political justice and gender equity. As part of our task, Holly, Shaurya and I all chose goal number 14, life below water. We were tasked with solving our global goal in our local area. We decided that it would be a good idea to choose the canning river, since it’s local and makes up a big part of Perth. After doing some research, we found a lot of issues in the canning river that would probably stop people from swimming in their. The canning river has lots of mosquito issues, algae, excess salts and chemicals and motor vehicle fuels. We found a solution to all these problems with a single species of tree called the weeping paper bark tree, this tree has a natural chemical in it that repels mosquitos and absorbs chemicals in water, the other good thing about it is that is natural to our local area. After analysing the issue, we found that we wouldn’t have enough time to get to planting the trees. We then looked for an even more local issue. We found that at our local swale at the school kept drying up during summer, so we looked for solutions to the issues. Our teacher, Ms. Donnelly, got us in contact with Wendy Corrwick, who is an expert of plants in our local area. She directed us away from the swale and to bull creek across from the school. Bull creek has been having a lot of issues with the black berry bushes in the area. A majority of the black berry bushes have been cleaned out but it left lots of empty dead space. Wendy said that we should host a tree planting day down at the bull creek, so that’s what we did. We ended up hosting a successful tree day and planted about 250 plants over the span of 2 hours. 

Global Goals and our Community

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I chose stem as my elective because I really enjoy STEM and I am seeking a job as a mechanical engineer. In this elective, we are going over the Global Goals that have been set by the UN to make the world cleaner, and a safer place to live. The UN is organisation of 193 countries that come together to help each other on issues in other countries and try and make the world a better place. The 17 goals are all sustainable development goals. Sustainable development is development whether that be social, environmental, or economic that can be sustained for long periods of time. The 17 goals are important because they set goals for important issues, like global warming, poverty, hunger, clean water, ect. The 17 sustainable development goals are No Poverty, Zero Hunger, Good Health And Wellbeing, Quality Education, Gender Equality, Clean Water And Sanitisation, Affordable And Clean Energy, Decent Work And Economic Growth, Industry Innovation And Infrastructure, Reduced Inequalities, Sustainable Cities And Communities, Responsible Consumption And Production, Climate Action, Life Below Water, Life On Land, Peace Justice And Strong Institutions, Partnerships For Goals. The sustainable development goals have had progress from 2015-2020 in some areas such as improving maternal and child health, expanding access to electricity and increasing women’s representation in government. I believe that there are a few goals that relate to All Saints College and its community, for instance, reduced inequalities. I acknowledge that there are still inequalities in our college. This can be seen with how some people treat the LGBTQ+ community just because they are not the way that they expect people to be.

 

UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals website:

https://www.globalgoals.org/

 

Cites:

https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/progress-report/#:~:text=Five%20years%20since%20the%20adoption,increasing%20women’s%20representation%20in%20government.

https://en.unesco.org/themes/education-sustainable-development/what-is-esd/sd

 

 

 

STEM escape room

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Introduction:
Our project was to create an escape room for a certain age group. The age group we were assigned was the year 5’s. In our escape room, our puzzle questions had to associated with the math curriculum done in the year 5’s mathematics class. We chose to do our escape room both physical and digital. We did our physical one by having legitimate physical questions on pieces of card which would lead you to your next clue. Our digital aspect was done via Minecraft were we had more freedom and could make certain things open when the questions were answered correctly. We chose to do both physical and digital because the physical aspect would make sure that they get to use their brain without technology, move around more and talk to each other more to try and figure out the puzzles. The digital bit was done because it was done in Minecraft and as a year 5, I loved Minecraft and video games; so it was good to know that they enjoyed the whole escape room.

Our steps to success:
Their were multiple key steps in the creation of the project. The first step was to empathize with the year 5’s. We thought back to when we were year 5’s and tried to think up of what they liked and get a decent idea of that. The second step was to email the year 5 mathematics teachers and find out what the year 5’s are learning in mathematics at the moment or have previously learned. Our third step was to look at the numeracy NAPLAN test for the year 5’s and get an idea of what they do during the year in mathematics. Our fourth step was to start looking back at our first step (empathizing) and then coming up with a theme for our escape room. In our fourth step, we chose ancient Egypt as our theme for our escape room. Our fifth step, we started deciding if we should do a physical or digital escape room. Like I said before, in our fifth step we decided to go for both physical and digital escape room. Our sixth step was designing the escape room for our year 5’s. Our seventh step was creating our original design and using the questions that we decided on doing. Basically we made the questions and got Minecraft world ready. Our Eighth step was to email one of the year 5 class teachers and explain this whole project to them and ask them when the students can come done to do our escape room. Our ninth step was to actually get the year 5’s to do the escape room and find out if they liked it or not.

Positives/Negatives:
There were many positives and negatives in this project. The positives in this project were that later on down the track, we worked extraordinarily hard to get this project done and dusted. The negatives of the project were that most of the lessons were us messing about or not getting work done, which lead to us almost failing or original project in the end.

Next time…
Next time I will make sure to not mess around and get all of my jobs done as soon as possible as well as make sure everybody else is doing the job they should and somebody else (*cough cough* Hayden) wasn’t destroying our project before we could even present it or put it into practice.

Stem Build logo *fixed

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We were given the task of creating a logo about what we think STEM is at ASC. Overall STEM at ASC is a subject that uses all your knowledge from other subjects in a practical and fun way. Our 3 focuses were collaboration, effective communication and problem solving.
What our logo looked Like
For our project we created a wooden sign with an S made out of an acrylic pipe filled with blue dyed water, the T was made out of 2 LED light strips to represent technology, LEGO for engineering and a laser cut M to represent maths
Team Collaboration
Our team worked pretty-well together. We all had equal jobs in the team, and all played our role in making the project. Ethan did mainly the written work, Mason and Amos did a lot of the physical work but we all got a fair share of everything.
Design Thinking Process
The first thing we did was emphasise the project and find out what we were actually doing. The we defined what STEM was at ASC and what it was at other schools. Then we began our ideation with a few brief designs of our logo and ended up doing the first one we chose,which is the one shown in the image above. These designs were drawn on OneNote.

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Allsaints College

Virtual Reality Tour pitch video

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As the Co-Leader of editing, we had to create a VR video to pitch. Before hand, the videoing team had videoed just around the school. They handed us their video to experiment with. Tyson Neil, Amos Butler and I all edited our videos. When it came to pitching; Tyson’s and Amos’s were too long… So they had to use mine as it was the shortest video of them all. Darren (the salvation army representative) said he liked the VR Tour pitch video and there is lots of potential in this. The next step in this program is to get actual footage of the Salvation army place and edit and use it!