October 2024 - Project Updates

 We are currently at the half way point for the school holidays between term three and our final school year in New Zealand (term four).   We have a number of design projects that are looking for completion this term, before the end of the school year including finally completing the Dolls House Project, which you can see the overview here.

Our biggest school event coming up is the 2025 School Market Day.   You can see the amazing video from Mr Bloor, our AV teacher above.   We have detailed the process for our students which has been featured on this blog through the year - you can use the search bar, top right and undertake searches using the tags 'market day 2025'.   You can also view the view from our 2019 here below:

Our School Market Day in 2025 will take place afterschool on Friday 31st October 2025 at Auroa School.   Preorders can be picked up on the day and there are going to be a selection of goods that are available for purchase.  If you want to make any additional orders you can email the admin for this blog.

We are going to make selected projects from this blog available during the Market Day, this includes projects shared here such as the 'cyclops' challenge 

This is one of the ideas which has been developed from a brief for the students, which based on the results of the project including how it progressed with the work of the students, has become a viable Market Day item.   At the same time we are going to attempt to look at producing unique earrings for the event developed and created by students in the design process for the classroom.  You can see a teacher directed version of this project and a slideshow describing the entire process by clicking here.

We are also going to complete the process of designing the labelled, authentic and detailed geometric shapes that tie in as part of our Mathematics program at school (specifically for Geometry).

While we started the process for these objects the complete set was not printed prior to the end of term and we require adaption for this prints to ensure that they are viable for long term use.     In the example shown left you can see for instances that '5 faces' has been put too close to the edge of the object meaning that the 5 will not be sustainable in the future.

You can click on the link here to look at details about the original project.

We are continuing to explore examples of ideas, concepts and physical examples for the students moving forward.  An example of this is shown left with the iPhone stand turtle that a student had located.   We realised the print time (completed on the Bambu) made the print more than viable (as it was just over one hour) and while the student concerned had no input into the creation of this as with the other major one off prints that we build the idea is to get the students thinking about ways that they can take an idea such as this and then apply it to other projects and designs.