During Term 4, we worked on a term long project, the Christmas Market. The Christmas Market is an event where us year 7’s get to start our own business and sell them on 18/11/2022 at lunchtime on the Common to year 5, year 6’s, year 8’s, year 9’s and teachers. This project was very exciting and we got to learn many valuable skills in this business opportunity.
Our first step was to brainstorm ideas for our business in our groups that we had formed. My group consisted of me, Ethan, Jack Z and Shaan. We originally going to create a memory board game made out of cardboard, but unfortunately this idea was rejected. Then we thought of the idea of a fridge magnet. To make one, we would get milk caps, stick magnets underneath them and then finally put cardboard and drawings on the top of the milk cap. This idea was accepted. Below is our word document for our ideas in detail
To make our actual products, we first needed to find out the cost to make all of the products. We chose to make 40 products, and our total production cost to make the 40 magnets was $24.70. We planned out everything, and found out where we could buy them, and how much. Then, each of us went to either Bunnings or Kmart to buy them
Then we decided to go to Ethan’s house to make the products. We spend 4 hours making them, and created everything we needed. We cut out cardboard, glued on magnets, and had a great time creating them.
Finally, it was time of the actual Christmas market. Unfortunately on that day, the weather wasn’t very good, and it was raining slightly, so instead of being on the Common as normally it would, we were in the verandas around Common
Capabilities.
During the process of the Christmas Market, we learnt many capabilities along the way. Some of the most important capabilities included problem solving, resilience and collaboration. We had to problem solve many things for our group, because we encountered many problems, like hot glue leaking out. We also had to be resilient, as sometimes we felt like giving up because of all the thing that weren’t going well. We also had to collaborate very much as we worked together in our groups to create our products.
Design Thinking Process
For the design thinking process, we though about the target audience, and the stakeholders that we were targeting for. For us, this was the year 5’s and year 6’s. Then we had to define and ideate. This meant we were brainstorming ideas, and thinking of what we could do. In the end, we went with the idea of magnets. Then we brought in a prototype. Shaan had a prototype from home, and we used that as a model. Finally, we made the actual thing at Ethan’s house in the morning