This semester in InnovatED I continued to work on the $20 project with my group members Sunishka Verma and Olivia Loke. We really improved on our business by changing how we market our product to be a trinket box. We also improved our personal skills by learning how to manage a business.

To create our product, we used creative thinking to decide what we were going to sell that people would want. Our original idea was to sell folders made out of plastic that can be attached to computer bags. This was too hard for our group to do so our idea evolved to lazar cutting, to change thee folder to be a smaller box, and then to change it to be a trinket box.

I developed my capabilities by working with others on a project I had never done before. I developed problem solving by changing the product so it would sell better. I also developed creativity by designing the advertising our group used at our market.

I improved in the subject by knowing how the lazar cutter works. Before I didn’t know anything about how it works or how to cut something but now that I have used it a bit more, I am becoming more familiar with how it works.

One of the things I found challenging was deadlines. Our group didn’t sell at the market; we only took pre-orders. We had so many that we decided not to sell at the second market. We did this so we would have stock to sell at the Transition Showcase. We were a bit further behind other groups because we had only just decided our final product.

The part of my learning that I would like to showcase is the trinket boxes. Our group is making stock to sell at the Transition Showcase. This shows our growth in capabilities by showing our process and newly developed skills.