Above is a picture of one of my first Blue – Sky Drafts.

What I wanted to accomplish in this project is, what would a Canadian Hogwarts look and feel like? So when I started thinking about how this would be done, I thought that I could make a model maybe out of clay and other materials, and then attach it to a poster board with information about the model and overall project.

So I started constructing the model out of some nicely textured clay and I filmed a timelapse of the first bit of the construction. The link below should work.

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Here’s a picture, first I worked on the trees because I was going for a Canadian look kind of like British Columbia.

And here was some inspiration for the landscape and structure of the building for me.

And so after the trees I started working on the blue lake out front of the cabin.

And then eventually I started working on the cabin using brown clay, but I ran in to a problem, the clay doesn’t stand up on its self so I thought what were some materials I had kicking around to help it stand up. And lucky enough I found some toothpicks that I lodged in to the middle of the clay for structural integrity and sure enough it stood up.

So by now I had the frame built and then I used the rest of the Clay for wrapping around the bare toothpick frame to give it a more wooden look. And then I ran into my final problem, I didn’t have enough clay to cover the roof hole or sides of the cabin, and even when I tried using the small amount of clay left, it just drooped because it was just clay. So I thought again what could I use? Well I had some old shoeboxes and I cut them to size, then used them as the roof and siding for the cabin and presto, we have a completed model!

And here is my final product including the poster board with the information that I just told you, including pictures of my inspiration, as well as a picture of hogwarts.

And that lead on to a great well done exhibition!

Our whole class was divided into different groups based on the theme of our projects and my group consisted of things themed by locations or technology or quizzes, our group had been working on giving the audience a special experience so we first drew a part of the great hall which if you don’t know Harry Potter well it looks like this.

So we tried to recreate it, what we drew was a big drawing of the window of the great hall as you can see above, then we tried to recreate the floating candles by wrapping little electronic tea lights in paper to look like candles, then taped them to the ceiling with thin hardly visible wire. We also all thanks to the help of Ms. Pye had a chocolate fountain for the people, which was delicious, but don’t tell my group, ps. it was not for us, shhh.

We had quite a bit of attention in the exhibition because we were one of the first groups you saw, if you came in through the library. And overall this was a great project! I hope lots of other students enjoyed it as much as I did!

Thanks

Quinn,

 

So recently in Scimathics everyone got put in a group and joined together to make a superhero, but not just any.. Elemental Superheroes! That’s right these heroes were from the periodical table. So Sam, Robbie and I set off to find a element, and in the end we chose neon.

Then we decided to name our group the Night Ryders and here’s a picture of the logo.

It is a bike handle bar because we all like mountain biking and the logo in the middle that looks like a biohazard symbol is actually a little alien face.

Then we got to draw our own periodic table, I must admit ours looked pretty good and you can just see for your self.

I hope you enjoyed this blog post as much as I did!