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Hi, I'm Kasimir!
I try to do my best in all of my subjects and spend a lot of time being involved in student life. I'm an Events Crew Captain, and part of MTC Leadership and I really love working with audiovisual technologies. I love playing both of my cellos, but especially German-made one, both alone, but also in the company of other musicians such as my string quartet.

I also really enjoy listening to lots of different music and podcasts!

If you want a more brief snapshot, watch the video below!

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The first lesson had a focus on inducting us into Action Project and practicing our ideation skills.
For this we attempted to think of as many ways as possible to shave a monkey...
- Radiation
- Metallic substance and magnet
- Razor
- Knife
- Shivers & cold
- Laser
- High powered fan
- Tweezers
- Vacuum
- Leave in incredibly warm  environment; evolves without it
- Wait for it to evolve without hair
- Acid
- Ani-age
- Bugs
- Fire
- Friction through twigs
- Superglue
- Electricity
- Wait for it to get old

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I'm currently wondering a few things about action project?

Will it be time consuming?

Do we get to chose what groups we work with?

Will I gain anything from the program?

Will I enjoy it?

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In this lesson, we aimed to extend our awareness about our strengths and weaknesses by completing the VIA Character Strengths Survey.
My top five strengths were deemed to be:
1. Creativity
Thinking of novel and productive ways to conceptualize and do things; includes artistic achievement but is not limited to it.
2. Bravery
Not shrinking from threat, challenge, difficulty, or pain; speaking up for what’s right even if there’s opposition; acting on convictions even if unpopular; includes physical bravery but is not limited to it.
3. Appreciation of Beauty & Excellence
Noticing and appreciating beauty, excellence, and/or skilled performance in various domains of life, from nature to art to mathematics to science to everyday experience.
4. Social Intelligence
Being aware of the motives/feelings of others and oneself; knowing what to do to fit into different social situations; knowing what makes other people tick.
5. Kindness
Doing favours and good deeds for others; helping them; taking care of them.

I feel that doing this character strength survey was actually quite beneficial as it reinforced my existing prehibitions of my self-perceived strengths. I would however place kindness in second place if I were the survey.

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Today was our first online lesson with the 7-day lockdown in SA. In the lesson, we received more information on random input as a way of generating ideas. It involves putting two objects together like fruit and a mug and seeing how they can be combined to become an ideal product. We also covered the applications of the 1 + 1 thinking routine.
In our second lesson online as part of the lockdown, we gained access to the live planner for action project which I will use to help keep me on top of work. We also used our divergent thinking skills to identify different ways to repurpose ping pong balls into other products. Our group came up with:
- Seasoning shakers
- Egg shaker (instrument)
- Paintball bombs

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In today's lesson, we continued to develop our ideation process skills. We were given various objects and had to come up with an alternate purpose for them, and this would be followed by a short pitch to the class.
Xavier and I received a window squeegee that we thought could be repurposed to become a gardening and construction tool. It would be able to flatten out different surfaces.
In the end, we completed our pitch in front of the class. Overall I think it went well, however it would be good practice to rehearse the pitch a bit more.

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In today's lesson we continued the task of analyzing the pros and cons of lockdown.  I was able to work with Xavier to identify some issues:
- As there are less distractions while at home he was able to finish his work approximately 3 times faster. This resulted in boredom.
- His father resulted in a constraint as he would often distract Xavier
- Teachers didn't set enough extra (optional) work.

Apart from these shortcomings, Xavier really enjoyed lockdown as he had more time to eat, play music, sleep, study and do gaming.

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In today's lesson, a staff member from the Learning HUB directed us through the process of finding good research materials by using resources such JSTOR, Clickview, EBSCO and Explora Search.  Within these different resources, we learnt how to narrow down our search results to find more relevant information.
This will help me gather more useful information both in action project, and in other subjects.

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To help put our skills into action that we've developed over the past five weeks we have been working on the Spin Off Project.
It aims for us to develop an idea that fixes an existing issue in a council area. For us this has been resolving the ongoing issue of inadequate street lighting that makes streets often unsafe.
We have developed the idea to implement bioluminescent trees and LED lighting to solve this issue. Bioluminescent trees will not only require no electricity to run, but they also help remove CO2 from the atmosphere slowing the effect of climate change.

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Spin Off Project - Presentation (Week 7 T3)

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Spin Off Project - Presentation (Week 7 T3)

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Our Presentation consisted of us showing our product video after having given a brief introduction of our product.
After, we received feedback on our video. The primary concern was that it was very slow paced, whereas others had faster paced videos that kept an audience's attention better.

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After having scripted my sections of the video, I filmed them at home with my DSLR with the help of a Lavalier microphone for better audio. After having done this I downloaded my teams video files and edited them in Premier Pro.

Overall I feel that our video was good, however I would like to have increased the speed of the video to make it more interesting to the viewer.

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In this lesson we watched a video by 7 News about young entrepreneurs who had created strong businesses before even leaving high school.
It was quite inspirational to see what can be achieved with dedication, however I felt that they were mainly doing it for financial gain, rather than personal enjoyment.

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Teen millionaires: the young entrepreneurs running successful businesses | 7NEWS Spotlight

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In today's lesson I joined forces with Emilie and Laura to start planning our INNOV8 Project. On this document we started brainstorming our ideas, while also beginning some research about different topics.

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Today's lesson I spent designing our team's logo and branding. Our service is a meal and food delivery service supplying products from small local businesses throughout Australia. It aims to help diversify their income and support them after the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Pastel green shows our commitment to the environment"

I designed the branding to reflect what we want the service to be - inviting and useful. Thus, I used soft colors for the text and the background, while the eucalyptus leaf is a pastel green showing our commitment to the environment and naturally derived products.

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Understanding what people think of our service is integral to creating a better service.
Our questions are based around providing insight into people's needs so we can adapt our service to fit them.

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Marketing is one of the key tools that helps sell any product or idea. This week I worked on designing our website which will help people learn about our unique business.
As I haven't used google sites much before, I was able to improve my fluency and understanding of the web app.

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In today's lesson we began working on the slideshow for our first marketing pitch for the spin off project, which we're creating in google slides. One of the difficulties I have faced during this process is the fact that I have had to start designing my own graphics to match the color scheme of the presentation, and our brand. Today I made a vector delivery truck with our logo on it. This will help provide visual stimuli for the audience.

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The process building up to our marketing pitch was a stressful but interesting experience. Judges and students seemed receptive to our idea, and asked clarifying questions to help legitimize our imperfect ideas. Overall the process remained a little monotonous, but I think it went well overall.

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Presentation for the Presentation (Week 4 T4)

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Presentation for the Presentation (Week 4 T4)

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Ahead of the presentation at the INNOV8 expo, we are working towards having consistent branding for handouts and posters. Hence, I have begun designing a custom tri-fold brochure in Adobe Illustrator.
I've used my critical thinking skills to help find the optimal ways to navigate a brochure so that any viewers have access to an accessible handout.

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My reflection

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The expo pushed me out of my comfort zone as I needed to interact with many different people while pitching our service.
The expo went pretty well, if I were to have to repeat this with my team I would likely try to be more enthusiastic during my pitch.
Next time, I would prefer to substitute Action Project with a creative subject like Media. I think this would bring me far greater satisfaction and enjoyment of school.