In my class we had been working on a project of the end of the year that was part of our final mark for the end of the year. Everybody in the class had to do it. Some did it with another partner but most of the class did it on there own. I did mine on my own. The main idea for the project was to find a small problem in the world and then find a small solution for it. It wasn’t quite that simple though. You had to narrow it down to a certain age group my age group was seniors. My idea originated from my grandmother who has dementia. She like her hats, and she kept buying hats that were very similar to hats she already had. We told her that she had a hat like that but she had no idea that she had all of these hats. I then came up with this.
It was basically a cone with clips on it. It held the hats up and it spun because it was suspended by a chain from the ceiling. That was the earliest prototype. I also made a larger one that spun on the ground and another tat could sit on a desk that was about the same size as this one.
None of them took to long to build as the design was fairl simple and all it took was sanding, sawing, painting, and attaching. That’s not the part that mattered, the part that matttered is that it did what i wanted it to, which was putting all of the hats on a display. By putting the hats on display like that it makes it easier for someone to know what hats they have because tehy see them everyday when they walk by it. My theory is that it brought all of the hats at the back of the pile to the front with the rest of the hats. We then had a exhibition on June 15th. I was mixed with to other Grade 9’s and a handful of grade 8’s. We had to put together a theme for our area so we said Tim Hortons because seniors like Tim Hortons. It took a while before we got to that idea because where else do seniors go, some people said old folks home, which would have been depressing. So we had to come up with new idea and thats how we got Tim Hortons. We served donuts as the food because what else would you get at Tim Hortons. The exhibition went well and everybody was happy that they didn’t have to deal with the stress from the project anymore.
I was certainly happy I wasn’t stressed, eh.