For take your kid to work day I went with my dad to his school maillard middle. My dad is a principal and has to wake up early every morning which instantly went under my cons list for this job. However he didn’t want me to spend the whole day in his office with him because he takes care of “private information” so he put me in a French classroom since I’m in French Immersion. I interviewed the French teacher a bit about her job and then I did my own exploring. She said that she loves her job because she loves working with kids. She claims it’ rewarding to be apart of a child’s academic development and journey. She says that it can be challenging at times but loves it none the less. She says you need to go to school after graduation for at least for years with a major and a minor. She majored in French and minored in geology at SFU foe five years. When she told me about the personal attributes that help with job, I wasn’t too sure this was the job for me. she said you need patience, kindness and heart. I have no patience, not for kids, not for strangers, although especially not for kids. As I circulated the room I noticed that I don’t like WORKING with kids. SO despite all the breaks you would get, I don’t think I could be a middle school or elementary school teacher.
I am so excited to start the season!
intro
This is the define, dream, deliver and debrief process for our electric house problems. Paula, Elodie, Rena and myself all faced many of our own and group problems and frustrations while building this house and its circuits but the one problem we decided to focus on was organizing wires . They were becoming difficult to work with and we new they’d be a problem.
Define
We found it hard to organize wires especially bigger ones with lots of slack. Wires would get tangled and it was hard to follow where the wires connected to. The wires would often be distracting and time consuming to detangle. We needed to solve this dilemma in an organized way, so we used a 3d printer to create a wire holder. we figured a wire holder would be able to hold more than one wire if we measured big enough.
Dream
We wanted something easy to print so we came up with a design of a square with two long tube like holes inside it. The long wires can loop through the two tubes as many times as it needs to too shorten and that gets them organized and out of the way. It was the first time using a 3d printer for some of us so at first we were really nervous. That’s why we decided to go with a simpler design since we didn’t want to ruin what we could already do. There was many ideas but we all agreed in the end that this would be the most useful one. Originally, the holder was supposed to hold all the ends of the wire to the battery.
deliver
Unfortunately, the printer wasn’t working when we needed to print so our holder came late. When it did come, we found that it printed well. However, the tubes were too small to hold all the wires and its clump at the end to the battery. So we decided to use it to organize loose and long wires. The only thing I would have changed is I would have made more holders because we still had lots of wires that needed to be sorted.
Debrief
All in all I think our tinkercad design was a success for the most part. It helped organize wires, however, it is inefficient because you can really only use it for one long wire at a time. If we were able to make more, I’d say we came up with a really useful tool. As for the circuits I think my team did well. We were finished the series circuit in no time, but the parallel circuits took a while longer. we ended making a combination circuit thing with only one switch. When we realized each of the three bulbs needed their own switch we had to restart. So we know for next time to be more organized. With our tools, information and time.
this is my one pager for the sea devil. It elaborates on hubris and gives some examples of text to life situations. Also includes some visuals of statement.
