First lot of MP3 Speakers
The year 9 speaker project is coming to an end and the first lot of completed Ines came through this week. The intent behind the design of this product is to try to highlight the implementation of sustainable design strategies like upcycling, use of recycled and recyclable materials and design for disassembly. The students have worked on their speaker grills using Adobe Illustrator and then laser cut them. This is a nice form/function challenge that the students enjoyed.
Mr R’s Designer of the Week
Well it is actually more like designer of the “term so far” remiss as I have been in my celebrating if individual work. So it is nice to be able to celebrate once again Wenxi’s work. This young lady shows a great deal of technical and creative skill in her work and an intuitive understanding of process. Her development of her speaker grill to the point where it can be cut by the laser cutter exemplifies this. Well done Wenxi!
Year 9 D&T speaker grill design work
As the year 9’s progress with their mp3 speaker project they have turned their attention to the design of the speaker grill. Using an approach called design rules students were asked to come up with a range of design based on a restricted design vocabulary i.e. A set of design rules. In one set of ideas this was limiting the design to using only straight lines and circles for example. The purpose of the exercise is to generate a range of ideas quickly and to reflect on whether these limitations help or hinder creativity. Here are some of the results for you to judge for yourself.
Star solderer!!
Well done Mia!! Got to grips with soldering like a fully fledged professional! Great stuff!!
Y9 Cake decorating competition winner – Natalie Choy (9D)
Congratulations to Natalie who won the cake decorating competition, with take on “what summer means to me.” Her “Ooopps I dropped my ice cream” was decided by Mr lord, Ms Chisulo and the other students to be the most creative and professional this year and she wins the hamper of utensils donated by teh PTA and a $500 vouchjer for Blue Butcher donated by maximal Concepts.
Year 9 lamp project
Sam Leenknegt’s lamp
Mr R’s Designer of the Week
A late entry for this weeks designer of the week which should have been done for last week. Anyway better late than never and I want to highlight Tiffany’s work this week. Tiffany has in fact got a lot of talents as a designer. An incredible eye for detail being one of them. Here she admirably demonstrates this in the design of her lamp. She has developed a beautifully detailed pattern that she took into illustrator to be laser cut. I am really excited to see how this turns out, especially when it lights up!!
MrR’s Designernof the week
i really liked what Rachel has done with her clock design here. The use of the hand positions as time indicators is a nice piece of design. I like her colour choices here as well. This image doesn’t show he whole drain off as there is a white background. Hopefully we will follow up with A photo of the actual clock when finished.
IS Masterchef – Juniors Round 1
Well done to Jenny Wang and Valerie Lee from Rutherford who were the first rounf winners of this years Masterchef. they were challenged to make a coffee shop prtoduct in 45mins and managed ro make a red velvet cake and ice-cream.
Well done to all the students involved as it was a very close competition. Also making it through to the next round is:
2nd Place – Pippa Yu and Audrey Lai (R)
3rd – Marie Brendal & Janice Chin. (F)
J4th – Alessandro Lucchini and Yash Anand (W)/Janice Fok & Rachel Zhou (N)
6th – Jason Qiu & Jordyn Dubinsky (D
2016 Robo Soccer Challenge
Megan Man and Ida Tsui competed in the 2016 Robo Challenge Cup at Wan Chai Exhibition Centre on Saturday 12 December. They won their group and then placed fourth over all.
