For semester one for InnovatED I had chosen to do recycled jewellery and sculpting. Our task was to make recycled jewellery out of used jewellery from op shops and give them to children in need. We had brought two bags of jewellery of all different sorts and de-beaded them and first sorted them out into different shapes, size and colour. This process was very relaxing and fun. It was challenging because we didn’t have enough boxes to store the beads.

The next process we had to go through was draw some designs of bracelets and design our logo. We has decided to call our business ‘Wish Makers’ because the bracelets were originally for children at the Perth’s Children’s Hospital. After we had drawn our designs we were able to start making them. This process was very fun but very fiddly. It was hard because the crimp that we had to use to secure the bracelets was extremely small and was very hard to fit the wire through it. We ran into a problem half way through the production stage because we had run out of clasps for the bracelets. We still had many beads left but we couldn’t make anymore because of the lack of clasps. But overall we had made enough but we could of made more.

After the production of the bracelets we had to decide on who to give our bracelets too. At first we had decided to donate them to the Perth’s Children’s Hospital. This had been our idea for majority of the project but after reading the Hospitals donation page terms and conditions we had realised we wouldn’t be able to donate them because they had to be completely sanitised. So we had to come up with a new idea. We had thought to give them to other people in need but decided this would be to hard to decide on the right place. So, we had ended up on selling the bracelets at the market and giving the funds to the Perth’s Children’s Hospital. We had made over 100 dollars to donate.

Since we had decided on where to donate our product we could start the packaging for our product. Me and Katherine had decided to try and make origami boxes. We had made four different types of boxes and found them extremely hard. We had taken lots of time on them but they hadn’t turned out very well. We had decided that none of the packaging worked because we had wanted to see the bracelets. We had ended up making holes in recycled card and threading the bracelets through it which ended up looking nice but because we didn’t know at this time that we couldn’t donate our bracelets we had made sweet messages on the card for the sick children in hospital.

We also had tried to make stickers with our logo on them to stick onto the back card but the stickers didn’t really work because they faded and we couldn’t find sticker paper so we ended up sticking them to our pin up boards to decorate them. We had made motivational messages for them in hope to cheer them up. But we couldn’t use the card because we couldn’t donate them. We had ended up arranging the bracelets colour coded on pin up to present them at the market.

On market day we had sold over half of our bracelets and if was really fun running the stall for some part of it. Overall this project has been really fun, relaxing and enjoyable. I have learnt many new skills such as making bracelets and made stronger connections with friends.

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Our task was to make a science video that will be entered into a national science competition on the theme of change. We decided to make a video on the theme, of how your memory changes overtime as you get older. We decided to show case this by making an informative rap and editing it on Cap Cut. Our video will be assessed for how informative, relevant to the theme and how entertaining it is, which I think our video/rap fits the criteria’s.

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I think that our group was very organised, we had finished our video early meaning that we had a lot of extra time, and it wasn’t stressful. Everyone in the group had roles of being a rapper in the video and we all had fair shares of two scenes each. But only one person was able to do the editing for the video because we could only do it on one device. We all contributed evenly to our research, and we all helped with submitting the video to the competition. Everyone was able to contribute their ideas to the project and we all valued each other’s ideas and took them into consideration. For example, we had an idea that there would be a granny at the start but since no one wanted to act as the granny we scrapped that idea. If I had the opportunity to do this project again, we would of improved our video by putting music in the background and having a schedule of what we would be doing for each lesson so we would of been more organised.

Our group was very kind and collaborative, but we did have one disagreement. None of us wanted to be the granny for the start of the video. Because of this it had caused some conflicts between us. So, we had cut the granny scene out and changed it to a drawing of something else. I would of improved this by having a video of us acting out the drawing that I drew to make the video slightly more entertaining.

Our group managed our time well. We had finished and uploaded our video on time. This was because we were very quick with our research and voice recordings. We worked very proactively for our filming and finished before the other groups. If I had to repeat the project again, we would be most likely of spend more time on filming for when we were rapping for the video because we couldn’t refilm it many times because it would of consumed to much of our time. We would also probably would try to use an editing app that we can all use and share, so we don’t put the load of editing all one person. Overall, this experience has been fun. I have learnt a lot more about memory and that it’s fun to be a gangster/rapper.

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