Action Project Yr 10 - Anish Mangla by Anish Mangla

manglan — 2024-01-31 23:42:18 UTC

In the image above, there is the first thinking routine that we did, which was to draw 30 circles and come up with as many things that are round to fill up these circles. This helped loosen our minds for the next few thinking exercises through the week.

manglan — 2024-01-31 23:42:35 UTC

In this thinking activity, our group was given a symbol and a group of the population, which were a square with a ^ in the middle, and a software engineer. With these two pieces of information, we had to come up with a product which addressed the target population of software engineers and also used the given symbol in some way. Our final product was an educational app where aspiring software engineers could learn the basics of coding as well as provide a guidebook for different languages, using the given symbol as our logo for the app.

manglan — 2024-01-31 23:42:50 UTC

This was the final thinking activity we did in the first week, and it consisted of a topic, which was A method of communication, and a box of items. From the box, our team could pick any items and as many as we wanted, and we had to come up with a method of communication, following the topic, with the materials we chose. As shown in the image, we assembled these pieces into various shapes, which consists of two main parts, two cups with zip-ties in between them, and a cassette with objects sticking out of it. Our design was meant to be a secure and easily destructible way of sending messages in Morse code using the zip-ties to mark out the dots and dashes, and the grey object acting as a receiver and a sender. The cups were meant to be a storage compartment for extra zip-ties to be used when one eventually reached its end.

Week 2 - Redesign your partner's lunch

manglan — 2024-01-31 23:45:13 UTC

So far, during our lessons, what are the concepts you have learnt (or further developed) and how are they influencing the way that you approach problems.

manglan — 2024-01-31 23:54:03 UTC

With concepts such as those presented in the Shave the Monkey ideation process and others, I am able to brainstorm problems within a given environment as well as figure solutions for those problems, which will be helpful in my assignments coming forward in action project as well as future subjects such as EIF and AIF in year 11 and 12, which will help me build skills required for my SACE and my future.

Week 1 - Introductory

manglan — 2024-02-13 00:32:33 UTC

What tools, skills or activities did you find most useful in the redesign your partner's lunch activities

manglan — 2024-02-13 00:36:18 UTC

In this task, I found the most useful activity to be the interview and resulting empathy map, consisting of asking my partner questions concerning their lunchtimes, and collating that data into an empathy map to try and form a viable solution for any problem they might have. This task laid most of the groundwork for my final solution as it was an effective and easy way to understand the problem.

Jesse's Lunch plan

manglan — 2024-02-13 00:52:25 UTC

Insight Statement

manglan — 2024-02-13 01:03:08 UTC

Jesse, a curious student, needs to be able to focus on work in a quiet and productive environment to be able to complete his homework as well as do research on interesting topics such as astronomy to learn more about them.

manglan — 2024-02-13 01:09:08 UTC

So, my problem was that some students would like to get some work done during break times, but the environment disallows such things to happen. The two main issues that students face in this scenario are the extremely loud environment everywhere around the school as well as teachers being strict about device usage during break times. Now, you might think that a student could just go to the hub, but from what I have gathered, the hub is as loud as any other place in the school. My solution to this problem is to introduce more of the small rooms which can be found in the walls of 3CL. But not just more of these rooms, more of these rooms upgraded. These new study rooms would be booked out by students on a virtual platform accessible on daily access, and they would feature sound-proofing from the outside so that there are no distractions from work. The only sound from the outside would be bells or alarms. Entry would be through student IDs to allow for only those with bookings to get it, and for people who want to work in groups within these rooms, there will be larger versions of these soundproof rooms. This would form the perfect studying environment, incorporating the quietness of the music practice rooms without needing to be a music student, with no distractions of any kind.

Spin off Project (Weeks 3-8)

manglan — 2024-02-21 22:37:40 UTC

How did you use or develop or grow your 5 C's (Collaboration, Communication, Critical/Creative thinking, Citizenship, Character (Strengths))

manglan — 2024-02-28 09:54:05 UTC

In this task, I used collaboration and communication to discuss topics with my partners and other peers to gain information and opinions on how to progress forward and design a plausible solution. Additionally, I used creative/critical thinking when designing the solution as there were many options to choose from and only one would fully solve the issue. Finally, I displayed citizenship and character during my interviews by asking follow up questions to everything to try and collect the most information in the politest way possible, while trying not to push on topics which may have been hard for my partner to answer and trying to actively empathise with their issues.

What did you find most difficult during the activity? How will you overcome this in the future?

manglan — 2024-02-28 09:54:17 UTC

The most difficult part of this activity was choosing the correct questions to ask during the interview and formation of the empathy map. This was difficult as examples were a little vague, and targeted more towards designing a product and already having some baseline information. For the task however, the questions had to be different from the examples to make sure that the same answer was not gotten multiple times, which can be quite difficult in the moment. This can be overcome by having a predetermined set of questions going into the interview to make sure that I know what I will ask.

My final pitch for the solution

manglan — 2024-02-28 10:40:48 UTC

Below is the final pitch for the solution that I came up with for my partners issues.

What do you think your biggest challenges are going to be in AP?

manglan — 2024-02-28 10:50:45 UTC

My biggest challenges in AP will probably be ideating as I generally find it hard to come up with original ideas. Apart from that, I feel like improvising for pitches and streamlining potential solutions will help me in my assignments throughout Action Project.

What are you most excited about in AP?

manglan — 2024-02-28 10:51:01 UTC

For Action Project, I am most excited about working with a group and working together with my peers to talk about our problems as individuals and work together to solve them as a group.

Thinking about your upper and lesser VIA Character Strengths, what do you think will help or challenge you in AP?

manglan — 2024-02-28 10:51:13 UTC

I think that my upper VIA strengths, including perseverance and curiosity will help me understand problems and solutions effectively, while my lower character strengths such as creativity may hinder my ability to find those problems/solutions I will need for the tasks to come.

What are our initial thoughts about our Spin Off Project? What do we still need to know or find out? How can we find this information?

manglan — 2024-03-18 03:03:41 UTC

My initial thoughts regarding the spin off project were mostly dominated by a sense of confusion about what to do and what our topic might be, as well as what kind of concepts I want to incorporate into the final Info-commercial.

The main concern about finding a topic for the assignment was the issue within the Gilles Plains community, for which we had multiple possible options, of which most were intriguing to our group, including lack sports facilities, community connectedness and healthy eating.

This information was found by one of our team members (Pranav) ranking the importance of each problem, which then led to our choosing of our topic. Additionally, we looked at the content on Classroom to find out more about the work we are doing.

What is most intriguing about this topic?

manglan — 2024-03-25 10:01:29 UTC

The most intriguing thing about our topic, which is mainly healthy eating in the Gilles Plains community, would be the fact that most of the area is filled with older generations. This is interesting because generally, fast food is not associated with older people, making the issue of healthy eating seem unlikely. This is answered mostly by the fact that the people who are younger do tend to eat out a lot more than usual, and that sometimes in this specific area older people are eating out alongside their children and grandchildren.

What am I most concerned about?

manglan — 2024-03-25 10:01:48 UTC

For this assignment, I am concerned about the possible solution we may come up with as our problem is quite broad and can be solved in many different ways. However, my biggest concern would be the construction of the infomercial as this is a new structure of a video which me and my group haven't made in before, making this both a challenge and an experience for the future.

What persuasive and presentation techniques were the most effective?

manglan — 2024-03-25 10:02:36 UTC

The persuasive and presentations techniques that we found to be helpful in the writing of our infomercial included the use of Logos, which refers to the use of data and facts to prove something is an issue, as well as a little bit of Pathos, which targets emotion to convince a viewer of an issue. In our infomercial, this can be seen as the use of results from research, quoted from our introduction "Research from the World Health Organisation shows that the leading cause of obesity, and terminally high cholesterol levels is because of an unhealthy intake of food, mostly fast foods." This sentence references studies conducted by the WHO and how this relates to the audience. Additionally, we used Pathos in our first sentence: "Do you want this to happen to you or maybe a friend or family member?" (with "this" referring to the previous scene where a person suffers from a heart attack). By relating the situation to the audience, we captured their attention for the rest of the video.

manglan — 2024-03-25 10:16:09 UTC

manglan — 2024-03-27 09:56:58 UTC

Sources such as this article from Harvard and others provided our group with information about the effects of fast food, which then led to our choice of providing a healthier alternative to fast food as our solution

Innov8 Expo (Term 2)

manglan — 2024-05-27 04:40:39 UTC

5 C's

manglan — 2024-05-27 04:49:28 UTC

Our group has struggled most with Collaboration, as we were unable to communicate with each other in regards to our thoughts, ideas and feelings about our problem, solution and product. In the future, we could improve communication between ourselves regarding these topics and therefore improve our Collaboration skills.

The Problem

manglan — 2024-06-24 00:22:45 UTC

The problem that we chose as a group was sleeping disorders within people around adolescent age. We decided to look at this issue as is known to often impact people around our age, with many of our friends having trouble sleeping.

Collaboration

manglan — 2024-06-27 11:16:41 UTC

Our group collaborates well in regards to delegating responsibilities surrounding work as well as discussing which topics to add or take out of the presentation/script that we made. To improve collaboration as a team, we could establish more ways of communicating between us as well as contacting each other outside of class to work on ideas better. Additionally, more views from each participant could be incorporated into our final idea.

Barriers and Solutions

manglan — 2024-06-27 12:58:06 UTC

The main barrier we are facing before the Expo is the specifics of our final solution. Because of some mismatched schedules in terms of absences, our solution and final product are being made independently, with not much communication between team members regarding it. This is overcome by emailing each other the final details, as well as asking each other questions in lead up to the final presentation.

Other Groups

manglan — 2024-06-27 13:00:54 UTC

Strengths:

A strength I saw in another group's presentation was their ability to redesign existing technology and keep the functionality of the original product, but add a feature to it which would benefit many households. This was in the form of more sustainable practices with washing machines, which they were able to expand on and allow for more ease of use and less wastage.

Weaknesses:

A weakness I saw in a group's presentation was that they did not seem to understand their own problem and solution fully, and had not seemed to have thought out their solution particularly well, which was demonstrated by the questions asked after their presentation. This meant that they were unable to produce an effective pitch and it was much less persuasive than other pitches which were presented.

Ideas:

The really great ideas that we saw through the presentations included the washing machine brand, the new food chain (FitFastFood) and the improved solar panel design (SunBlox). These were good ideas as they targeted specific problems which were easily applicable to many within our community, making them useful and effective products.

Feedback from Marketing Pitch

manglan — 2024-06-27 13:02:35 UTC

Explanation of the problem- B clear, reference for statics on screen

more info on negative impact of sleep deprivation -details
expand on problem

Good delivery of problem

Solution: clear introduction, great idea having a model.

say why there can be different colors.
What can ppl do with info from the monitor.
Add what to do with monitor, how to use the info.
Give solutions to low whatever hormone thing.

Some slides have too much info words text.

Include business names.

Rehearse the stuff. Less words per slide, less reading off screen.

From this feedback, it can be gathered that the main points of improvement focus around providing more proof that our problem exists, as well as formalising a script which can be presented separate to the slides.

Planning and Script Doc

manglan — 2024-06-27 13:11:08 UTC

Final Slides

manglan — 2024-06-27 13:12:37 UTC

Our Logo

manglan — 2024-06-27 13:15:22 UTC

Image of Final Product

manglan — 2024-06-27 13:15:53 UTC

OBJ File of 3D Model

manglan — 2024-06-27 13:21:33 UTC

Please open with any 3D Printing slicer, Fusion360 or any similar CAD Software. I believe Paint3D is also able to open this file otherwise there are online programs which can.