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Currents from the Kitchen Lab

So in my hypothesis I thought the potato was definitely going to work the best. We firstly started by grabbing all fo our materials witch were 1 bulb, 1 voltmeter, 2 wires, 1 nail, 1 copper strip and your fruit/vegetable. We then set it up with the copper and the nail in the potato and connected the wires. But after doing this with the potato we realized that not much was happening. We then used a lemon witch worked the best. We then tried to light the bulb witch we could not do. We tried many things but it wouldn’t work.

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Explore the Field

My essential question is how can we make something that truly will help Tim, and what can we focus on and how can we use his body to really understand what we are making. What I mean by that is what can we focus on that will actually help him, because if he has a lot of strength in his arms then we would focus on his legs or vice versa.

When we started this project my group and I wanted to focus and making something for Tim so be able to get off the couch. But after some brain storming and tries we realized we kept coming up with the same result as the other groups. So we took a step back and thought “what else can we do?”. So we came up with a handle we will glue onto a coffee mug, because we remembered Tim saying his hands were shaky. I think it’s meaningful because it shows we really did listen because we caught that his hands were shaky. Its meaningful to Tim because I hope he can see all the work we put into it.

One of the small questions i asked was what movements can people with huntington’s do. I started off with this so I could really understand more what Tim was able to do and what he wasn’t. I think that this question actually really helped me to understand huntington’s more because I also learned more just about what it is and some symptoms.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/huntingtons-disease/symptoms-causes/syc-20356117

My second source was Tim and Nikola. I learned  a lot from our FaceTime calls with them. I learnt that Tim was shaky. After me and my group came up with our new idea for the cup we had to ask Tim if he drink tea or coffee or there would not really be a point to make the handle. We learnt that he drinks and enjoys both. I also could reflect a lot about what Nikola said Tim could do and not because she would most likely know the most.

-Tim

-Nikola

The last question was how does it affect the brain. For this question I have 2 sources. One is from a website and the other one is Nikola. She was able to kind of explain to me how it affects the brain but I still had some questions so I had to do some more research. After this I found out that it affects the motor movement called the basal ganglia.

https://hopes.stanford.edu/the-basic-neurobiology-of-huntingtons-disease-text-and-audio/

-Nikola

It helps me answer my big question witch was “how can we make something that truly will help Tim, and what can we focus on and how can we use his body to really understand what we are making”. The research helps me because I needed to really understand how he can move and what works for him and what doesn’t because I didn’t want to do all this work for something he didn’t need help with.

So at first when we realized we wanted to make something else we started brainstorming. We defined that we wanted to make a handle. We needed to discover if Tim even drank out of a cup and around what size his hands are, we also got the idea to ask what size ring he wears because that would help us. We started envisioning what we wanted to make but we had a hard time actually putting into TinkerCad. We then started to try a few different designs and options. We then came up with a final product on TinkerCad. Right now we are in the middle of figuring out what we need ti make this. We haven’t done a debrief yet because we are’t done.

My critical questions were: what is Tim able to move and were does he have strength? Then I asked How does this affect the brain? Finally I asked What does Tim need help with?

I learnt how to use Teams because I have never used it before. I also learnt how to use TinkerCad and I have never used anything like it so it was cool to see. TinkerCad was actually not to hard to use, so that was good!

I didn’t just one website I would check a few to make sure the information was repeated and made sense. And for Nikola I trust her because she lives with someone who lives with it so she would know.

For next time I would probably wanna be less shy on the call with Tim to make sure I wasn’t left with any questions in the end. I also wish I worked a bit harder and used my class time a bit better, not that I wasted my time I just wasn’t always 100% focused. But overall looking back at this whole experience i’m actually really happy with our final product.

 

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What I have learned about Grade 9 Exponents

  • What is an exponent?

An exponent is a little number above it’s base  and it tells you how many copies you have to make of the base. You don’t multiply the exponent by the base, that will give you the wrong answer. You have to remember you are making copies and the exponent is the number telling you how many copies to make.

 

  • What is the difference between evaluating and simplifying?

The difference between evaluating and simplifying is that when you evaluate you get the answer, like the final answer. To evaluate you use the rules and make it easier to do and you dont end with a normal number its sort of an easier way to get the “answer”. It always you to leave it at a simpler answer.

  • Multiplication law and why it works

The multiplication law for exponents is that if the base is the same you add the exponents together, but if the bases aren’t the same there is no short cut or rule you just actually have to do the work.

  • Division law and why it works

The division law is that when both of the bases are the same you take the two exponents and subtract them. It is pretty similar to the multiplication rule except you subtract.

  • Power of a power law and why it works

The power law is that when there is two exponents and one number. You multiply the two exponents  together and that is your new exponent.

  • applications of exponents

An application of exponents could be when you are trying to find the length of the side of a triangle. Because you square the number and then you find what the side is.

  • one more thing you learned about exponents

I learnt about the copies thing, because I always used to think that you just multiplied the two numbers together.

 

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TOKTW 2019

 

 

1.What is your job title?

Assistant vice president (western region) TJX Canada

  1. What is your job description?

Collaboratively develop and implement strategies for the region. Also invests a lot of time into district managers personal development. This position is in charge for supporting the development of the regional vision and strategy, and overseeing the execution of the strategy to successfully achieve the overall business plan developing talent and supporting the TJX Canada’s off price model.

  1. What are the duties and/or tasks you perform at your job?

Accountable for providing strategic direction and leading District Manager teams of assigned market area to achieve financial plan targets. Develops and implements regional strategies to achieve or enhance financial targets, talent development and customer experience. And the last main thing is District Manager talent development.

What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas?

  1. a) training?

Training on how the stores work, leadership experience/training, strategies, development and implementation training.

  1. b) education?

University degree or several years leadership experience.

  1. c) experience?

Leading people, leading teams, retail experience but not mandatory.

  1. d) skills and attributes (personal qualities)?

Driven, outgoing, energetic, leader.

 

  1. What are some of the things you like about the job?

The strategic part of the job and she loves working with people. TJX is a great company with a great coulter and she gets to work in a great environment.

 

  1. What are some of the things you dislike about this job?

Sometimes she feels like it’s too much travel because its set out of Calgary and that’s were the main office is.

  1. How do you anticipate this job changing in the next 5 years or so?

TJX has expanded a lot in the past several years. While the Off Price Model has proven to be very successful in the changing retail landscape the rate of growth will likely slowdown in the next 5 years. They will need to continuously evaluate how we do business to ensure it is what the consumer is looking for.

What are the hard parts about your job: 

As company continues to grow it gets harder to find people with enough skill and responsibility and be able to grow so they can take on more responsibility’s.

Student Reflections:

Give three reasons why you would like this job (be specific):

  1. a) Because in a way it has to do with fashions witch I’m really interested in.
  2. b) I think it’s a job for a leader and I think I’m a leader and you get to work with other people so all the work wouldn’t all be on you.
  3. c) I think it offers a bit of everything. You don’t have to sit in an office all day, although sometimes you had to do that not all day. You can also work from home and take calls from home.

Give three reasons why you would not like this job (be specific):

  1. a) My mom technically works out of Calgary which means she travels a lot and not just to Calgary but usually Calgary. Which means I don’t get to see every day.
  2. b) My mom does a lot of work calls and a lot of the time when we eat dinner or sometimes she can’t do stuff with us because she has a call. So, I think that would be one of the reasons I wouldn’t love it.
  3. c) It honestly just seems like a lot of work and I’m sure it would totally be for me and to have to put that much work into something you don’t love would suck.
  1. Is this job for you? Why or why not?

I honestly think some parts are for me and some parts aren’t. While I was there we went on a walk through with a district manager and then I sat in a meeting and we went for a lunch. I don’t know if specifically, the part I watched and helped in would exactly be for me because it seemed a bit boring but I know she goes to events and gala’s and those look really fun. I feel like overall I could do pretty good in this job because a lot of the things you need to be good at I have. She also gets a lot of vacation time. I am also very similar to my mom and I know she does very well in her job. I think down the road this could be a option to look at.

 Explain the value of the TOKTW experience in relation to your ideas about your post-secondary (after high school) plans (education? training? travel? work?).

I think it has a lot of value to see what’s out there. I think I realized maybe this is something I want to look into but maybe there were people who realized that’s not at all what they want to do. My dad always tells me you have to work for a long time so you should love what you do. And I think that this just kind of helps us see what we like what we don’t. I plan to go to school right after high school and hopefully get a job right after. I’m not certain on what I want to do yet but I think something in business or marketing maybe. For me I don’t think I would take a year off to travel because I don’t think personally I would go back into school after that.