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Our group faced many concerning problems. From our pieces big to big and small, to our rubber band motor not working, and falling apart at the last minute. Luckily, we were able to solve these problems by sawing, drilling and cutting our pieces into shape, and attaching our wheels to rubber bands which enabled our dragon to move. When we thought things couldn't get worse, our head went missing, whilst we were in our final minutes of constructing our toy. Yes, this was extremely concerning, and had everyone in our group in a total panic attack. At the start of the week, once our pieces had finally been printed, our head fell apart into 100 missing pieces. If it wasn't for the back-up (it was not as good though) head we had printed, we would have most likely had a headless dragon. Just when we thought matters couldn't get worse, our current packaging box, wouldn't stand up and gained many cracks and wholes. As you probably could have guessed, we all started panicking. After a few minutes of discussing our possible ideas, we chose to re-make the box. This turned out to be a great idea, since our box is now a lot better!! Even though my group faced many difficult obstacles, we still were able to find a way to finish our toy and make a great pitch, and packaging. This experience has been extremely useful, and our group couldn't have gotten through it without each other

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This is the front of the final box and the second box that we created. we choose this design as it was simple and easy as we had a limited amount of time. we chose to do the paint splatters as we feel that it makes it stand out and matters for both genders. we feel that this box is much better and feel that it shows how we feel about our toy and how it will make other people feel when they play with Blaze the dragon.

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This box did not work as it was bent and curvy and there was a lot of different colour paint that was not supposed to be on it. although this box did not work we are still happy with it and would have liked it to work.

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Day 5
Today was the final day of the steam project. today we were under a lot of stress as we faced many problems. our box did not work as it was bent so we had to start again and do another box with the limited amount of cardboard. this was a huge challenge. another challenge we faced today was our rubber band motor was not working so we had to do a lot of trial and error and sometimes we had to just start again. When problems did occur it was hard and frustrating to deal with but we just had to take a breath and try and figure it out. My hardest challenge today was making the rubber band motor as i was in charge of doing that. it was very hard to do as sometimes things would brake and one time it would work but other time it would not so i had to figure out a way were it would always work. in order to do this i had to ask friends for a bit of help.

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Day 5
today was our final day for our steam project. it was definitely a very busy and stressful day. after choir practise this morning, we finished constructing and painting our packaging and toy. we finalised and practised our pitch and created our rubber band motor (which was created and broken multiple times). as a group we decided to create a second package for the toy. we made this one in a different formate to the other. It has clear cellophane on the sides so that customers can see what the toy looks like. potentially, one package could be used for blaze selling in Asia, and the other could be used for Blaze when sold in Australia. after both of our packages were complete, we created a blurb for the packaging and added a card with a short history of "the dragon" for children so that they are both saving fun AND learning when playing with blaze. after everything was complete, we got to present our pitch to our house, Andrews!

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Day 4
Today we mainly focused on putting our toy together, and getting our pitch ready which we will present on Monday. For the first half of the day we constructed our toy, decorated it and tried our best to fix the problems. Whilst doing this our group faced so many problems, which really stole the amount of time we had to work on other things.
Firstly, none of our pieces fit together. At first everyone was extremely disappointed and annoyed, but after a few minutes of considering our options we came up with a solution. We used the drill to make the wheels bigger, and enable them to fit. We then sawed our pieces to make it the perfect shape and size. After almost 45 minutes of fixing our pieces, we could start to construct it. Then once we thought everything was going to be ok, we realised our wings were to big, which would result in our toy not moving. After thinking about what we could do, we realised we would have to cut them .

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Day 4
today was all about constructing and getting messy! in order to get what we needed to get done, as a group we had to plan ahead in terms of what each person was doing, use our time wisely and be flexible with our ideas. unfortunately, our laser cut pieces weren't printed to the scale we hoped they had been printed in. this was frustrating because it meant that our hinges couldn't connect, which lead to us not able to make the head and wings move. this was annoying as this feature would of been something that would make our toy stand out from the crowd. we were able to work around the pieces not being the correct side. we did this by sawing down edges, sandpapering corners and hot glue gunning pieces together. after, we did a drama workshop on creating an advertisement for our toy! this was really fun and exciting. after, we created our packaging and painted our toy. this was really fun to do and indeed up being very messy!

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Day 4
Today we was all about putting our toys together and making the packaging and finishing the pitch so that they are all ready for Monday. Today was definitely the most difficult and most challenging day by far as our toy was to small and to big for the different pieces to fit together so we had to think very quickly on how to fix it.

A few of the problems that we faced during the day were:
Our pieces for or toy did not fit together
Our wheels were to small for the dow rods
Our wings were to big for the toy so they caught onto the wheels which resulted in the wheels not being able to turn
At one stage we misplaced our head
One of our heads broke so we had to use our back up head

These were only some of the many problems we had. They were frustrating but it was also fun having obstacles to overcome as you have to problem solve and think carefully on how you can fix them. once we had assembled the toy it was time to decorate and finish other task. Our group approached this by assigning a person to a task so that we were minimising our work load quicker. When the day was almost finished we were really in a hurry to finish as on Monday everything was due but then we were told that we would be getting 3 hours on Monday to finish. This was a huge relief as we were no were near finished so we were starting to rush but then when we were told this we started to calm down and just take our time. So far i am happy with out toy and all of the other parts that are involved but i feel that if we had managed our time better we could have really made it so much better and could have been finished with say our pitch and packaging, but i am still happy with what we have done so far. Our packaging is looking really good as we cam up with the idea to paint it white but then splatter bold and bright colour onto it to make it stand out and really catch your eye. We also thought outside the box when doing our pitch as we have decided to create not one but two pitches one fore adults and one for kids.

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When it came to choosing the textures we wanted to use for our toy, we had to challenge ourselves and look outside of the box. The way our toy will feel is extremely important. We don't want it to feel bumpy or rough, but we do want it to feel scaly and glazed.

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In this design i like the way that you can imagine how the design will feel before touching it. I also like that this design could be used for anything/ any type of toy and would still look amazing. If i was to use this design i would probably change the colours, since they don't go together very well.

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This design wouldn't suit our design too well, but still looks extremely good. The way that the design, is all coming from different ways and different sides look very effective. This enables it to look like the water is moving. I also like how the light is shining at all different parts of the image. If the colour of this design was to be changed it probably could look very nice on our toy deign. Although, this design could be improved by making it look even more realistic.

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In this design i love the way that you can tell exactly what it would feel like before touching it. The colouring looks perfect and is great how it uses different shades of greys and browns. I don't like hoe the design looks very messy and not to attractive.

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I like how this design just makes you constantly want to touch it. The way it is set out makes it look like it would be bumpy and smooth to touch. The colours in their design make it look even better. If i were to use this texture on my toy it would make it look and feel a lot better. This texture design could be improved by adding additional colours to it.

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This design caught my groups attention right away, since the colours, the feeling and the texture would look especially good on a dragon. We decided not to use this as our final inspiration though, since the dark colours wouldn't really show the aspects of a modern traditional Chinese dragon.

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When it came to choosing the colours we wanted to use, and the contrasts that would suit the design best, we had to do lots of researching and looking on the internet. Fortunately we found many inspirational pieces. As a group we decided that we wanted our toy dragon to be made with bright vibrant colours. After this decision had been made, we thought that maybe boys wouldn't like it as much if it had too girl colours. So we decided that the dragons we make would all come differently. Some made from warm colours, others made with pastel and bright colours. This way our dragons would be loved by bot genders.

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In this photo, the colours stand out and look really good. My group decided to use this for some inspiration for many reasons. Firstly the way the blue stands out very clearly, but then there is a touch of different purples and pinks, look really unique.
Secondly, the way all of the colours blend together looks really nice. The top of the flower is a blue but by the time it gets to the bottom of the flower it is a pink/purple.
Thirdly, the repetition in the photo is a key factor to its amazing final design. This is why these colours could look really nice on our dragon.
Despite all of  these amazing traits, there are still some parts of the design that could be improved.
Firstly, the way that majority of the flower is blue and then there is a little bit of purple, and basically no pink make the design not as good as it could be.
Secondly, if the design used more colour it could have looked even better.

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In this colourful, inspiring photo, it represents different colours, both bright and vibrant. We decided that we could use parts of these details in our design. For example, the colours in this design go very well together. They also would easily blend and are even prettier colours. Another thing that i like about this is the repetition. The way that

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On Wednesday we had time to work in the FabLab and get our design done and printed. Unfortunately my group was put last, so we had to wait our turn before we could ask any questions or get ours printed.

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When we were designing our dragon, everyone had many different opinions and suggestions of how it should look. It was hard to incorporate everyones ideas but fortunately it was possible. To incorporate the idea of a traditional Chinese dragon, with the modern components of a dragon we had to work extremely hard. we used a traditional Chinese dragons head and body, but added modern wings and colours to it. This turned out looking pretty good, and even though we struggled making this dragon, the whole group was extremely happy and couldn't ask for anything better!

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My group used this colourful dragon template to help add modern characteristics to our dragon. We thought this would be a good unique idea!!

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My group also used this template to give us even more ideas! This modern colourful dragon helped make the design even more unique.

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This was a base template of a traditional dragon which we used to help understand how we could incorporate this with modern characteristics of a dragon, to make our final toy.

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My group got this design to help add modern detail like the wings and tail.

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This was another box idea we came across. We thought this would be a good size for our toy and a toy that would be possible to make in our set amount of time. Like many of our other ideas, we thought that it would be best if you could see inside of the box and into the toy. We then decided to incorporate this idea with another one, and then cut out a small area so that you could see inside. Despite all of our problems and the small amount of time, we were still able to do what we wanted, which included everyones ideas.

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This was another packaging idea we came across. We thought that this would be possible to make and that it looked very professional. We didn't end up using this as our final box, but we used this as a starting base. we then built off this idea.

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This was one of our first packaging ideas. We thought this would look really good, and be a possible challenge. Eventually we decided that this might not work as well, because it would be better if you could see inside of the box.

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My greatest challenge was working in the fabled and constructing our design on Adobe illustrator. Our group isn't the best at using computers, so we all really struggled when it came to the designing of our toy. Despite our obstacles and troubles, we kept trying, was extremely persistent, used trial and error and eventually found a way to use it. Fortunately, our design came out very well

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Day 3
Today we mainly focused on our final packaging/box design, getting our toy printed and our final pitch. The day started off by getting sorted into three different groups. In these groups we each had an hour to sort through three different rotations' printing our design, packaging design and the digital tool session. The first rotation me and my group experienced was the packaging design session. In this hour, we spent our time learning what we were going to do with our toys packaging, and then brainstorming our ideas. My group worked particularly well in this session, as we really got through it quickly, agreeing with everyone great suggestions. Once our session had finished we got a quick half an hour break. At 11:00, when our break had finished, we had our next rotation. My group got to go to the Fab Lab, and get our toy design printed. Unfortunately this session did not go to plan, since our group had to go last to get our design printed, and by that time our hour was finished. Therefore we didn't get any time to ask any questions about our design. After we left the fab lab, we had half an hour to work on whatever we had left. My group decided to work on our unfitted pitch. This half an hour went super fast and unfortunately we didn't completely finish our pitch. It was then time for our lunch break. At 1:30, when we got back from lunch, we had our final rotation. My group had the digital tool session. This session was extremely useful, since we had time to get a lot of our pitch put onto a final presentation design, and we also came up with a unique addition to our pitch. My group and i decided we could shoot a quick video of our toy dragon (brought to life) explaining all of his interesting features and characteristics, so that the younger kids could see this and what this toy even more!! Day 3 was very useful and lots of fun, but throughout the day we did come across a few problems/ obstacles. Firstly, we found that we were a bit behind with everything and running out of time. At first this was very concerning, but eventually we overcame this obstacle by handling our time better, and splitting up into different parts. Another problem we ran into was agreeing on big decisions. In our group people had their own individual and great opinions, but it was difficult compromising on these. After a while of consideration, we were able to incorporate all of our different ideas into one. This was really good in the end, because everyone was happy and it even brought our group even closer. By the end of the day we were able to finish some uncompleted things, and come together as a group and make our big final important decisions.

By Ella Bennett

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Who are your customers?
Our toy that we have made, are based for people are 6-8, and both boys and girls.

What are their characteristics?
The kids who buy this toy are very imaginative. They use their minds to bring the dragon alive and are able to have a great time, when they are alone with the toy dragon.

What are their decision making/buying triggers?
Kids are buying our new modern toy, because of the great colours, and the fact that they can use this toy to put them in a good mood, and put a smile on their dile !!

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Day 3
Today we finished our pieces and printed them in the fablab using the laser cutter. This was both exciting and frustrating as somethings did not go to plan so we had to use our problem solving skills a lot. We also had workshop about packaging. My group worked well in this as we worked well and got everything done that was needed to be done. This helped a lot in the future workshops as we did not have a pile of tasks to do. When working in the fablab my group was last to be printed but we were not there when it was printed. this was a hard as we were not able to ask any questions.Another one of the workshops today was working on our pitches and if we wanted to incorporate a digital side to the pitch. My group decided to use a digital tool to help enhance our pitch. we decided to record on person in out group talking as the dragon and explaining what our toy is and all the information in a childish style so that the digital pitch is for the children to understand and our pitch that we say is for the adults to understand. Overall the day was fun but was also the most stressful day so far as a lot of things did not go to plan so we had to think of how we can fix all of the problems and problem solve a lot. at times this was hard but in the three days that we have been doing this we have gotten a lot better at it. Our biggest group challenge of the day i think was using our time wisely and being productive because some things we got finished but most things we did not so we have a lot of catching up to do tomorrow. Each day my group is getting better at problem solving and working together so we are able to produce the best toy that we can make.

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Day 2
Today we mainly focused on the illustrations and designs of our toy. We started the day off by having a short, efficient lesson with Doctor Street. He showed us how to use Adobe Illustrator, and how to construct our designs once a template has been added. Once we had thought about ur final designs, we moved on, to learning about rubber band motors and how the final result will work with it. After we had successfully learnt about the rubber band motors, we moved on to learn and think bout our pitch. Our pitch is something that we will present on Monday to our peers and head of houses. This pitch will convince people to invest in our toy, and show all of the fantastic characteristics that it has. After we had thought about our pitch we spent some time on reflecting the day. Once we had written a detailed reflection, we took a trip to the shop. We brought what we needed for the dragon toy, and planned out what we were going to do the next day. After this we had a quick cleaning competition between each of the four houses. The competition was to have the cleanest room. The house that achieved this got a big box of favourites. After an intense and suspenseful five minutes, the winner was announced. Fortunately it was Andrews!! Overall day 2 was a great day. As a group we worked great together, getting our ideas done and having a clear vision of what our final toy will look like. Throughout the day there were a few disagreements of what our toy should look like, and how our pitch to go. After a few minutes of consideration it was easy for the group to compromise.

By Ella Bennett

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Day 3
Today we printed our pieces using the laser cutter in the Fab Lab! this step was exciting but meant that we had to be flexible in changing our pieces slightly. Today my group focussed on the pitch of our design. We used youtube to find examples of different business pitches, which helped us broaden our understanding of what a pitch really is. As a group we created a script for our own business pitch, and used adobe sparks to create an advertisement for the toy pitched for children. This process was really fun and was easy when working as a group.

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With the Help From A Peer - Amelie Graham

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With the Help From A Peer - Amelie Graham

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i was able to change my adobe illustrator design as i had created it using the wrong template.

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What I learnt from a peer during this project- Olivia Rice

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What I learnt from a peer during this project- Olivia Rice

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While doing this I learnt from the people in my team as we all had different strengths and weaknesses which was good because i could learn from there strengths to improve my weaknesses.

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What I learnt from a peer during this project- By Ella Bennett

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What I learnt from a peer during this project- By Ella Bennett

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Whilst doing this project i learnt from my peers how to use Adobe Illustrator and how to construct a finished design in the fab lab. This helped me and my group immensely when it came to working in the fab lab.

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Our greatest challenge whilst making the toy and brainstorming ideas, was incorporating all of our different and strong ideas. This was a challenge since we all felt extremely strong about all of our own ideas. To overcome this, we had to negotiate, compromise and be willing to agree and settle on a different idea.

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The first lightbulb moment my group experienced was when we decided to improve our pitch, by doing one for both adults and kids. The second lightbulb moment was when we decided to expand our way of thinking, by believing outside of the box, and adding additional unique features.

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opening and closing, needs be gripping and engaging. e.g Imagine, or relevant questions.

focus on positive, up beat, convincing, when pitching.

mention the packaging; how does it attract buyers

use short punch sentences and great adjectives.

confident language; what language will you use to convince the sellers

transitions between points need to be swift.

how will our toy solve problems, and help current revolutions.

Enthusiasm.

Body language

presentation tools/ visual

Finish on a closing that will take peoples breath away.

think outside the box

rhythm can be a source of persuasion

think ahead

unique ideas and uniques pitches

repetition, to ensure that the important ideas stands out

clearly spoken

short and sharp

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how we are going to open and close your pitch to make sure that it is engaging and makes people want to listen. open with questions e.g. have you ever wanted.....
pick the main selling points.

keep it up beat and interesting.

how your packaging is attracting buyers.

say the cost. cover a lot of ground move quickly from one point to the next.

how will your toy solve problems.

how we are selling it be positive.

use visuals.

NO POWERPOINT.

Have a strong finish.

How is your product going to be different and most profitable for buyers.

Tell what kind of people are going to buy you toy.

What language and structure you are using for your pitch.

Think about the rhythm

What you want

They researched

thought outside of the box

idea was creative and appealing to a certain crowd.

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Day 2
In the morning we had a workshop with Mr Street. He thought us how to use Adobe Illustrator and what to do when designing our toy on it. When we were creating our toy on illustrator we used a template for the base, sides and for the tail. With the sides the template was the attachment piece that we use to attach the sides to the base. We drew the shape of the body that we wanted for the dragon around the template and did the same with the tail. We also had a workshop about how to pitch our toys and make them the most marketable. We also were shown different ways to package our toys. After the workshop we had time to discuss what we wanted to call our toy, what the packaging would look like, our sales pitch and what we wanted our audience to be. We had to choose what the gender, price and a way to make our toy stand out and also be profitable. my group decided that the toy would cost $22.00, would cost $10.00 to make and we would give $5.00 to a charity called China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation which is a charity in China that helps children suffering from poverty.

By Olivia Rice

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Day 2
Today i focused on the selling points of our toy. We found that, this modern interpretation of a traditional Chinese dragon is a toy that caters for all ages and  genders. It informs children about different cultures which will bring communities closer together. This toy is reliable, and can be passed down through the family. This fabulous toy is mass produced which means that more people can experience the fun! $2.00 per model will be donated to help children in China experiencing poverty at the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation. The toy will cost 10 dollars to make and will be sold for $22.00. Also, today i used adobe illustrator to create the head of my dragon. This was challenging at times as i hadn't drawn my print using millimetres but my using points. luckily, I was able to over come this challenge with the use of others in my group.

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Day 1
When we were planing our design we had to consider many aspects of the design and the key factors. We had to think of all the pieces that are involved in process of making the toy and making sure that we include everything that was needed to be included. If this toy is mass produced we would need to make sure that our toy was correct as our design is based off of the Chinese dragon. During the day we had many different works shops about various different things such as we had three girls from an organisation called "ThoughtWorks". They explained their daily lives as a ThoughtWorks employee and how different occupations do different and the same things during the day. We also had one of the Chinese and French teachers speak to us about how different countries and cultures have different toys and different ways of using the toys. After this workshop we had to include some sort of culture into our toy design. My group chose to incorporate China into our design so we decided to steer our Dragon design into a Chinese dragon style. Another workshop was called artful thinking. This workshop included creating a mind map to help us expand our ideas and of more ideas and not just be set on one idea. after all of these workshops we had a chance to go of with our groups and think about what we had just learnt and include that with our plan of our design. Overall The first day of STEAM was a lot of fun and i learnt a lot. I am very exited for the rest of the week and to progress with our toy.

By Olivia Rice

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Ideas:

1. Triangular shaped box with an opening at the top.

2. Rectangle box with see through sides.

3. Square opaque box.

4.  box of a dragon shape.

5. fully see through rectangle box

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·      Does not diminish a gender but caters for both male and female.

·      Teaches children about other people and cultures

·      Reliable, can be passed down through generations.

·      Fun and exciting

·      Can be used for all occasions (birthdays, festivals and celebrations).

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This is the groups mind map. We made this on day one, to ensure that we wouldn't get confused or forget any of our ideas. There are many different topics for our ideas, and many different things to choose from. This mind map helped us to pick which animal our toy would be, since we got our three choices, weighed the pros and cons, and made a final fantastic decision. This mind map helped us expand our ideas and helped us make our final decision.

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When we were deciding what animal to do, we had many different options. A sheep was one of our original ideas, because we thought that younger kids would like it, due to one of their all time favourite song 'Bah Bah Black Sheep'. In the end we decided doing a sheep for our animal wasn't as good of an idea as our other choices.

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As you can see our dragon design has evolved a lot since

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When choosing what our dragon would look like we had many thoughts to choose from but we had to make sure that what we create would fit with the template we were given to use. This design is probably going to be our final design but we will make some adjustments to make sure that the toy suit us and what we are trying to show in our toys design.

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Day 1

At the start of day one,  all of the year 7s gathered together in the 7/8 centre. Three girls from an organisation named Thoughtworks, came to give us a presentation, on their jobs. They explained what is involved in they daily lives, and what we would need to achieve by having a career like theirs. After the presentation, we got into our groups of three or four, and participated in an intense competition. The aim of the game, was to build the tallest tower possible, using a given amount of spaghetti sticks, string and a marshmallow, which was to sit on top of the tower. My group made a pretty good tower, but unfortunately broke and fell apart once we let go. Therefore we did not win the prize, which was a big box of chocolates! After the challenge we got a quick half an hour break!! Once our break had finished, we all came back together and had presentation on different culture ideas we could do. We had to really focus on our design and think about what we would have to keep in mind when creating it.  When planning the design, we had to think about the components and pieces which we needed to include in our design, in some way. Some of these key factors were culture/language, size/strength and if our design would cause any problems when moving. After our group had considered all the different cultures we could do, we decided to make a dragon, but incorporate the Chine culture. Throughout the day, we  also had a chance to think about all the arty aspects of our design. Over all, day one was lots of fun and was a great success! Our toy so far is looking great, and if it was produced it could definitely go world wide. If our toy was to be mass produced, we would have to ensure that the cultural designs of the toy would not offend anyone, and that it was politically correct/allowed. Overall the day was great, especially since we didn't come across many problems. So far our group has been working fantastically together!!

By Ella Bennett

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