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Today was the Innov8 Expo, the main event that all of the hard work led up to. We made sure our stall looked nice and featured all of the information we wanted to share. Our group was the first group to present to the judges for our category and it went extremely well as the judges enjoyed our pitch and asked us some good questions. Throughout the expo, parents and other teachers would come up to our stall to ask about our product/service and everyone seemed to have liked our idea. Our group didn't make the top 3 for our category but we still had a great time pitching our product.

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In our lesson today, myself and Yeoryi went around the school and collected rubbish for an engaging visual for our stall. We wanted to collect enough rubbish that represents an extremely small portion of the rubbish in our oceans per year.

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Today our group refined our pitch down to around 30 - 45 secs and made the final changes for our expo stall tomorrow.

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Alessio said my pitch was good as I had continued to keep all of the vital information in. The only negative was that it was slightly over one minute, so our group will have to make a few adjustments.

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Alessio has said that my pitch was good and well explained. He said that I covered all the information necessary and cut out all the information that wasn't needed. I easily fit the pitch in the two minutes as well, so now it's up to cutting it down to one minute.

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Today my entire group was absent for the lesson so it was up to me to get something down for the expo which is coming up. I originally wanted to make a stop motion video but due to it being too difficult I began working on a website via Canva which will be used as a visual. The website is a prototype as to what our actual website would look like if we were ever to make one. In this lesson we also worked on cutting down our pitches from 4-5 minutes all the way down to 2 minutes for the expo day.

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The main point was that our group used cue cards a lot and we continuously looked up and down. The next part was to get rid of the robot part and focus more on the clothing side. The final point was to get rid of the physical store and focus more on the website.

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For our expo, our group plans on utilising both our table and pin-up board space to create an interactive stall that is filled with information. We want to have posters on the board that showcase some key facts about the rubbish in our ocean, and the clothing prices. As for the table, we want to have an interactive activity where people are allowed to guess the amount of rubbish in the fish tank, just to tell them that it is only 0.00000001% of rubbish that is put into our ocean each year. We also plan on having a stop-motion lego video that goes through the process of the rubbish in the oceans all the way to the clothes on someone's doorstep.

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Today we presented our marketing pitch to the judges about our Collect and Convert Co. idea. Overall, it went exceptionally well as no group members made any mistakes in the script and we managed to answer all of the follow-up questions that the judges asked. The next step from here is to take in the judge's feedback and refine our pitch to get to 15-30 seconds ready for the innovate expo.

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Today we listened to the first three groups idea pitches. One thing about all three of them was that they had engaging visuals on screen and covered all of the required points. I did think that some people included too much extra information and some people missed out on some resulting in them having to answer more questions. A key take away from today is that I will need to practice over my lines a few times so that I spend less time looking at my cue cards and more time at the audience as this was an issue today. Overall I'm feeling really good about my group's presentation as we have those engaging visuals, the key facts and we are all familiar with what we need to say.

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We worked on our pitch script and highlighted what parts each person says to try and get everyone to have equal speaking parts.

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Today our group designed a logo for our company. We went for something both simple and modern that can appeal to large audiences of people and can be easily remembered. We also started working on our presentation as well as the script. We also recently came up with the name of our company that represents the soul purpose of our brand.

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I worked on the target market for our spin off pitch. It was important that we took into age and also people's lifestyles about saving the environment.

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In today's lesson we looked into a few different designs of the ocean vacuums that clean up rubbish in the oceans. We found that it is possible to incorporate solar panels which helps with the sustainability factor. We will continue to look deeper into different designs to find more optimal ways of collecting and storing rubbish.

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Today we started working on our marketing pitch to prepare for our pitch later in the semester. We need to make sure that we cover all the main points to ensure our pitch is well thought out.

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Due to their absence Mr Ralph came to check on everyone's group about their idea. Our original idea of doing something relating to homelessness wasn't all that thought out as most ideas have already been done before. We had then made a group decision to change our idea but also the category to creating something that will help the environment (ocean) but also make it a business.

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Our group worked on our empathy map that related to our topic.

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Today was the beginning of Action Project and so we got into our groups and began to brainstorm our interests and passions that we may choose to continue with for our final product.

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Today, the spin off task for action project had finally finished and our group's infomercial was submitted. I really enjoyed the spin off task as I had the opportunity to work with people who I usually wouldn't and create an awesome concept for our idea. The whole task was a journey as there were times where we were extremely productive creating ideas and products, but also times where we had lost motivation because our ideas lacked depth and needed improvement. This task allowed me to demonstrate all of my four c's as they were constantly running through out every single lesson. In the end my spin off group created a well thought out product that helps bring communities together which was the main focus for our task.

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We created a logo for our spin-off company using a logo maker we found online. We wanted to incorporate big bold letters that showcased the name of our company, and then also add a delivery truck to help make the company more recognisable.

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Today, myself and the rest of my spin off group finished recording the rest of the video and I had taken the responsibility of editing the video.

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Today the spin-off group began to film our infomercial. We managed to record most of the parts that we were able to do and we would finish the rest of the recording in the next lesson.

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Today the group finalised our script to submit in as a draft for Mr. Ralph to review. We made a few final adjustments to make sure we included everything to help make the infomercial work.

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Today, our spin-off group collaborated and communicated to create a script for our infomercial that we will film later in the week. We made sure to cover all the key points like why the product will work and also how it will work and why we created it.

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Today, my spin-off group met with Mr Ralph about our project to give him an idea of what to expect and for him to make suggestions. Overall he enjoyed our vision but he said it just needs to be refined to make sure that it works successfully. So in the next few lessons, we will spend extra time working on refining the product to make it the best it can be.

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We got to work on a storyboard that we were going to follow for our infomercial. I made sure to include what information needed to be included in what parts of the story to help engage the audience. I also planned to include a mini skit showing how our product will work.

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In today's lesson, we went through a PowerPoint that highlighted some persuasive techniques we can use in our pitch that fall under different categories beings ethos, pathos or logos. We then later got into groups and all presented the same pitch but we had to include our specific persuasive techniques into it.

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Today we were introduced to the spin-off task and because I wasn't here I was grouped with Oscar and Addison. We worked really well together and managed to choose the prompt we wanted to solve and came up with a variety of ideas and also went into depth with our problem. Our problem was trying to get a neighbourhood to become more connected. We came up with a large variety of ideas and in the next lesson we will work on choosing the best few.

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In today's lesson, we presented a product to the class that helped solve one of our classmate's problem's. I had to create a product that helped solve the issue of having a bottom locker and that the person needed to access their locker so they could get to class on time. I used divergent and convergent thinking techniques to create ideas and then came to my final idea. My final idea was a locker elevator that similar to a forklift would essentially lift the lockers up so that the bottom locker becomes the top locker and it is easy for the person to access. This formative task allowed me to demonstrate my critical thinking abilities and my creativity.

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Today we did a character strengths survey where we had to answer a large variety of questions that then figured out what our top strengths were. My top five strengths were love, perseverance, hope, zest and honesty.

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This lesson was primarily to help us understand the course by playing a few short games which challenged us. The first game was where we were given a sheet of paper and we had to draw as many circular objects as possible. This challenged my critical thinking abilities as I needed to use my common knowledge and draw circular objects I was familiar with. The other main activity we did was get into groups of three and each member had a prompt and they had to be combined together to create a product or service. This used our collaboration, creativity, communication and collaboration skills.

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Today was the first ever lesson of action project and we were introduced to our amazing teacher and went through a presentation. The presentation included a short outline of the course and the assignments we had to complete. There were also short brain games that challenged our divergent and convergent thinking while we collaborated and communicated with our table groups.

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1. The main thing that we have learnt so far is using divergent and convergent thinking when approaching problems. Divergent thinking is where you try to create as many possible solutions to the answer, whereas convergent thinking is using logic and reasonable thinking to create the most appropriate solution.

2. I think that the biggest challenge during action project is time management. This project is packed with assignments and reflections that need to be completed so it is that I stay on top of everything and use my time efficiently.

3. I am most excited about creating the final product and getting to collaborate with my peers. The creating process will be the most fun because we get to develop ideas and continuously refine and improve them.

4. I would say that my character strength of perseverance will majorly help me during this task. Action Project is very stressful and contains a large workload with a bunch of due dates which can be very difficult to complete. I know that I will be able to persevere and produce high-quality pieces of work.