PREP Week 4 Reflection

 

This is our finished prototype. I expected it to be tricky but it wasn't. I already knew how to use the sander and that's all we needed to do so that's why it was so easy. For next week Izan said he would bring the varnish and maybe a packaging to make it look nice.

PREP Prototypes

These are the prototypes Jamie and I created with the off-cuts of wood Izan got. The one on the top left was what we started off with, a piece of wood that was already cut into a square. The top right is the same thing but with the sides sanded. Bottom left is all of it sanded and the bottom right is the final prototype with it completely sanded and level, the edges were quite the sight aswell.
 

PREP Week 4 Planning

 We have our wood now and it's sitting in the office so we can use it whenever we want.

After we get into the woodwork room we will create a prototype of our product so we can see how it turns out. For our actual product, we might add some carpet to the bottom of the coasters so the wood doesn't scratch the surface on which it's being used on.

To get this carpet Izan and his mum will go to the carpenter and grab whatever offcuts we can use. We will glue the carpet to the bottom of the coasters.

If we aren't happy with how our prototype turns out we will keep making them until we are.

Week 3 PREP Reflection

Something that went well was we able to finish all the preparation (which was our prep proposal & the recourses) we needed to do for our product but I think could have done it faster if we didn't mess around as much so I will work on that next time. Nothing was very tricky for our group since everything we did was something we already knew how to do what we were doing. Next week for PREP our group needs to get wood so we can start working on the actual product. 

Week 2 of PREP Reflection

 

1. What went well today for you and your team?  Think about your teamwork, and your group’s product idea.

We got all of our work that was assingned done. The teamwork was good, I think the product idea is good.

2. What was difficult?  Why do you think that was?  

Nothing was hard in my opinion.

3. What do you need to work on in preparation for the PREP lessons next week?

Nothing, I think we are all set for after the holidays.

About our product

For now we're still planning our product, it's going well so far we've already planned one place we could possibly get the wood from. For the christmas theme we've planned to laser cut some christmas designs onto the coasters. In my group is Jamie and Izan, our group name is Big KEK. 

This is our logo

It has santa to represent christmas and our group name.

Week 1

 One thing that went well today would be that we got all the work that was supposed to be finished today done and started on the next thing, the teamwork was good we all worked together nicely and our product idea is turning out well. Something that was difficult was focusing when we have all this freedom we tend to start talking. There was nothing new I learnt about business but we were taught about was trying to find out what would be the best people to sell to, how to intrigue them to buy it and make sure to make an example of it. For next week I can try to stay more focused and on task, and sort out what would be the best type of material for our product.