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Yasmin:
What I used to think:
1. How are we going to come up with something that we all agree
2. How is our car going to travel in a straight line with out us touching it?
3. How do we use illustrator ?
Now I think:
1. Our wheels are too small! we might have to drill a hole in a different place
2. we have to improvise because part of our toy was thrown out in the bin
3. We are nearly done and our rubber band motor is working! but we still have a few things to do.

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Lucy:
What I used to think:
1. How am I going to get this rubber band motor woking? it keeps breaking!
2. How are we going to get the wheels the right size without seeing it in real life with our toy?
3. How do we make a car with curvy and straight lines using adobe illustrator?
Now I think:
1. I have watched a couple of videos on how to make the rubber band motor on youtube, I think i know how to make it work
2. We need a lot of time to do think, we might need to work on this at lunch
3.This is great our toy is coming along

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Lauren:
What I used to think:
1. How will we create a toy with adobe illustrator ?
2. Why do we have 5 days to do this? it is such a long time
3. how are we going to use a rubber band motor
Now I think:
1. We have a lot to do and criteria list to follow
2. "Our rubber band motor is working!" "we might have a chance of winning!"
3. We need to be productive with the time we have and we need to keep our area clean

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The process of putting together the toy was a challenging, problem solving and fun experience. We started by hot glueing our pieces together. We added the screws and decided to leave the wheels and glue them later. Then we found that it was good that we did that because if we had already glued them we wouldn't be able to add the rubber band. We then painted the car pink by using our paint tokens we bought at the shop. We tried to get the rubber band motor to work, but we just could not get it! We added all the accessories to the car such as the windscreen, wheel and the headlights. The next day or two we kept trying to make a rubber band motor work and we finally got it with a little help of Mr. Street and Miss Casey. Also in the next day or two we started and polished our packaging. As we finished our toy we were stressing out a little because we still had our pitch to practice, but we learnt it in the end so it was all ok.

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The hot glue guns really helped us throughout the making process of the car and packaging. Some of the things we used the glue for was sticking parts of the car together, sticking the packaging together as well as sticking things to the car and the packaging. It has really helped us set things in place and make the car be more stable.

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Lucy
1. Show how you are meeting your audience needs
We have tried very hard that it would be appealing to our target audience it also meets all the requirements and is a very good well-built toy. It is very environmentally friendly and some of our money goes to charity.

2. Outline at least 2 new skills you have learned so far
I have learnt how to work well in a group/team as well as become very confident in using tools such as the drill.

3. Identify 2 things you want to work on refining tomorrow
We want to finish our rubber band motor so that our toy actually moves.

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Yasmin
1. Show how you are meeting your audience needs
We have made a toy on wheels that is for girls aged 6 - 8 years old. It is moving by a rubber band motor and is a complete original design. We have made the toy have a low cost, and some of our proceeds go to a charity called 'Kids Undercover'. Our toy is very environmentally friendly and is not dangerous.

2. Outline at least 2 new skills you have learned so far
During this process I have learned and used many new skills. Some are cooperation, solving problems, teamwork, learning fast, creativeness, and

3. Identify 2 things you want to work on refining tomorrow
On Monday we need to continue and polish our pitch. We also need to complete our car by getting the rubber band motor to work, and making it look neater. We also need to paint, and stick things on our packaging.

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Lauren
1. Show how you are meeting your audience needs
We have created a toy that is aimed for girls 6-8 years old. It moves by a rubber band motor and is a original design. It is a low cost and part of our proceeds go to a charity called 'Kids Undercover'. Our toy is very environmentally friendly and there are no small parts.

2. Outline at least 2 new skills you have learned so far
I have definitely learnt many new skills so far these include teamwork, dealing and solving problems, learning about rubber band motors, using adobe illustrator and learning about a pitch.

3. Identify 2 things you want to work on refining tomorrow
On Monday, we need to polish our pitch and continue to work on our car by decorating it. We have made our template of our box but we need to decorate it and stick some things on it.

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Client: Girls 6-8
Date: 2nd of December, 2016
Contact: DSL Company
Project: A Car enjoyed by all girls
Prepared by: Lauren, Yasmin, Lucy
Budget: $10,000
1. Objective
Our main objective is to make a toy that is at a low cost easily accessible toy that all girls can use and enjoy.
2. Target market
Our toy is aimed at girls 6 to 8 year olds. It for girls that enjoy playing with

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What have you learned from a peer during this project?

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What have you learned from a peer during this project?

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We struggled using Adobe Illustrator and making our design fit in with the template. We noticed another group had joined it onto the end, so we asked them why they did that and they explained it to us, and helped us do something similar in our own work.

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Yasmin -
1. Tell us about what you did to test your product today
We have not reached the stage where we test our toy yet.

2. Read over the success criteria and explain how you are meeting them
In the designing stage, we have definitely met the criteria as we have made a toy on wheels for girls age 6 - 8 years old. In preparation we have tried to work out how to use the rubber band motor.

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Lauren -
1. Tell us about what you did to test your product today
we have not yet reached this stage

2. Read over the success criteria and explain how you are meeting them
For the designing stage, we have met the criteria as have made a toy that is for girls 6-8 years old. We have also tested out a rubber band motor on a toy from previous years.

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Lucy -
1. Tell us about what you did to test your product today
We did not get up to finishing our toy today.

2. Read over the success criteria and explain how you are meeting them
Whilst designing we have been able to meet the criteria and made a four wheeled toy for girls aged 6-8 years old. We also tested out a rubber band motor and tested it on a toy from last year this really helped us understand how ours would be put together.

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What has been your greatest challenge during your project?

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What has been your greatest challenge during your project?

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A challenge for us was to figure out a toy design that we all liked and thought would work. We overcame this by using coggle (mind map) where we wrote out possible ideas.

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In Adobe Illustrator the template we were given, we had to incorporate it into our design so that it would connect.

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What makes our toy car unique compared to other toys such as the barbie car?

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What makes our toy car unique compared to other toys such as the barbie car?

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Our toy is much more detailed then the barbie toy and a lot more time and effort went into making the toy. It would all be locally and a portion of the profit goes to charity as well as the materials being used are able to be recycled. Our car is wooden in comparison to the plastic barbie cars that are horrible for the environment. It is also not manufactured in a big factory that will pollute the air.

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- Language
- Body language
- Certainty of your product
- Confidence
- Pace
- Eye contact
- Pauses
- Repetition
- All members talking
- Explaining
- Offers
- Bounce backs
- Back up
- Persuasive language
- Benefits
- Short, snappy
- Examples
-Think of problems or concerns that people may have and be able to come up with solutions

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In our group we all have different roles and tasks so for each task we have an expert so if any of us have questions we just ask the expert in our group for that task.

Lauren -
My task is to be the captain of design. As that captain I need to be the go-to for the actual design, illustrator submition, and the aspects of the look of the final product.
Lucy -
My task is to be the captain of creation. As that caption I need to be the go-to for the manufacture, assembly, and test for the toy.
Yasmin -
My task is to be the captain of marketing. As that captain I need to be in charge of the presentation pitch, and everything to do with the promotion of the toy.

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In our pitch we are going to write about why we think it is a good idea to sell it, where some money will go, where we will be selling it, how it is made and the costs.

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Today we sent our work to be laser cut and ready to be put together tomorrow. We had a go at using adobe spark to create our sales pitch and found it quite easy to use and definitely a lot more entertaining then powerpoint.

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We are considering using the website adobe spark for our sales pitch as we thought it would be a lot more entertaining then having a poster that we read out to everyone. It also looks very fun and interactive and there are a range of different themes.

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While working in the fablab we produced our actual toy car. What we did first was fix a few things up as we had made some mistakes. It was really cool to watch the lazer cutter engrave and cut into the wood to produce many different shapes. As we are doing a dolls car, we had to make a few changes and add a few things onto our design.

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Yasmin
What project management skills did your group use today?
While we were working we all went on with different jobs, but if anyone needed help we would help each other. My task was to write more on our padlet and creating new ideas for our toy design. We cooperated really well and this has been such a fun experience so far.

What types of things will impact on the distance your toy can go in a straight line?
We decided on how we will place our rubber band motor, how many we will use, and where to put them.
I think it will help that we try to make the car as light as we can because then it will have less to carry.  If we choose to put a heavier material (such as fur), it would affect how straight the toy car drives.

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Lauren
What project management skills did your group use today?
Our group used many multi tasking skills as we all had different tasks to complete. My task was to create the adobe illustrator for out car design.

What types of things will impact on the distance your toy can go in a straight line?
Our group has not really started talking about how our car will travel in a straight direction but we have talked our design and watched a few videos of a rubber band motor. For our toy to travel straight, we will need to use materials that are light in weight . We might try and incorporate a windmill at the back of our car if there are any useful free materials at the shop.

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Lucy
What project management skills did your group use today?
We all assigned ourselves different tasks whilst still working together as a group it was really reassuring to know that if we didn't understand anything you could just ask one of your team members and they would help you. We used team work and cooperation and although we didn't always agree with everyones ideas we were able to complete most of our work very well and time efficiently. It has been so fun and such an incredible experience doing this project with Lauren and Yasmin.

What types of things will impact on the distance your toy can go in a straight line?
It will be impacted by how we make our rubber band motor and what kinds of materials we put on our car. If we put a heavy material such as fur it may not move as fast as if you just had a coat of paint. If you put some heavier materials on one side of the car it will affect how straight it drives as it may lean or tilt to one direction which will cause it to turn.

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- Less is more
- Picture?
- Benefits over feature
- Design/colours
- Buyer friendly (children)
- Warnings (children)
- Australian made?
- Passes national safety standards?
- Catchy words
- Transparent?
- Eye popping
- Persuasive
- Collective?

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This is our mind map - continuously writing this and updating this really helped us when planning the design for our toy.

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We have decided to sell our toy in Toys r us, David jones and Myers. Our toy will be $10 to make, and sell it for $25 $5 of it will go to the  charity  "Kids under cover". Our toy's packaging will be vibrant and stand out so that it is easily seen but at the same time it will be very environmentally friendly.

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- You are going to pitch your toy into an executive from a multinational toy company
- As a part of your brief you must cost your toy
- Read all the information on using language to persuade
- Read and consider the section called Seven Principles of Persuasive Packaging

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What will the box look like?
We would most likely make boxes using recycled cardboard so that it is good for the environment. we may also set something up so that the boxes can be returned and reused. They would have information about the toy and any safety information required. There would probably be a picture of the car on the outside

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We want this to be a low cost easily accessible toy that all girls can use and enjoy. We want it to be locally made and made very environmentally friendly. It is a very safe and well built toy as there are no small parts and it is already put together ready for use. We would donate a portion of these proceeds to kids around the world who don't have access to toys like these.

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Who are we selling the toy to the kids or the parents?
Will it last?
Is it part of a collection?
Is it safe - Will there be a safety warning?
Where do the proceeds go?
-Ethos
-Pathos
-Logos
Is it unique?
What is the concept?

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This is an idea for our logo, representing our brand name Dolly's car. We decided to make a simple logo so it would not be too hard to make or for kids to understand.

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Many cars include logos on the front of the car to show the brand and we want to include one of our own to make the car look a bit more authentic and interesting. A lot of the logos have a circle around them which we used in our own logo design.

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What materials will make our car move faster and longer?

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What materials will make our car move faster and longer?

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To make our car move faster and travel a further distance we have tried to make it as light as possible so that when it drives it has less to carry. We also needed to imagine the added wait of a toy doll that kids may place in and make sure that the car will still run with the additional weight.

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We decided to have a barbie inspired toy car because many girls love and enjoy playing with their barbies and her accessories. Girls like having as many accessories for her barbie as possible so we thought the car would make a perfect addition to their collection. This was also a very popular toy during that time period.

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Whilst some people might associate cars with boys toys, cars had become a very popular toy for girls to have and many girls enjoy spending hours driving their toys around in a fun little car. During this time period toy cars became a growing trend for young girls and boys and were very popular.

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The colours during that time period were very bright, bubbly colours that really stood out. We are going with a very bright pink.

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During our steam program, we needed to choose a specific time period to have our toy sold in. We decided to sell our toy in the 1900's - 2000's. We chose this because we wanted to be 'barbie inspired' so it would be all pink, and in that time there was a lot of fluorescent colours such as pink.

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We looked at the history of American children's toys and how they have changed over time and what kind of toys were popular during the time era we chose.

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The rubber band motor is made when one side of the rubber band is tied to the set of back wheels and looped around the set of front wheels. When the back wheels are winded up the car will move. We are thinking of adding a few rubber bands to increase the speed of the car although we will have to trial and error this a bit as to how many bands we put on and whether the car will still run straight.

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We started designing our car on adobe illustrator and began by using the template and setting it up ready for additional changes. We tried to think of what our car would look like side on if it was flat and drew some pictures to help us design it. To be cut on the laser cutter the width of the lines would have to be 0.01 mm. However we decided to engrave a door wth the line width of 1 mm. We found working with illustrator was quite fiddly and hard to use as it was not something that we had worked with much in the past so it was a very new but educational experience.

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Here are some of our ideas for our car:
Age group: 6-8 year olds
Gender: Girls
Time period:  1990s-2000s
played: Indoors
Country: America

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- White paint blob 50c
- Red paint blob 50 c
- White ribbon $1
- Blue glimmer paper A4 $1
- Pink felt A4 $1
- 2 black 3 pink pipe cleaners $1
- Silver glitter glue $1
- Gold glitter glue $1
- Pink glitter paper A4 $1
- Pink soft foam sheets A4 $1
- Pink bright coloured paper A4 $1

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1. What key factors did you consider when planning for your design?

We had to think about the target audience as well as the actual purpose and function of the toy. We also had to consider the design and whether it would appeal to the target audience (girls aged 6-8). Another factor we had to consider was the time era that our toy would be sold and what colours and patterns were trendy during that time period.

2. If this toy was to be mass produced, what social and sustainability considerations would need to be made?

We would need to make sure that the materials we used were environmentally friendly and that our toy was not over priced so that it was affordable and available to large masses. It would need to be safe so that children were not harmed when playing with the toy.

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Different pinks -
We looked at the time period that our toy was set to see which pink would work best for our toy. We found a common pattern was that most of the colours in that era were very bright. We think that the Fuscia or Magenta would work best for the outside of the car and possibly od rose or pink for the inside of the car.

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Our car design is inspired by the mattel Barbie cars. We have decided to use the idea of the hot pink - quite glamorous design. We decided to take inspiration from this as we had the same target audience of young girls.

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We have decided to make a barbie like inspired car with and open roof (VERY PINK). We want to include a seat for kids to put a toy (small) doll to sit in. We are hoping to make a propeller motor. (video below). The age group we have chosen is 6-8 year old girls. The time period is the 1990s-2000s, it is set in America and is an indoor toy.

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