Formula One Design: finished!!:D

Over the past two weeks we have been working really hard in tech on both our car design and sponsorship! Designing the car has been stressful, with many complications throughout the last week! However we have finally finished our design and sent it off to cork institute of technology to be made!!
We could not have finished the car without the help of Mr W as he has kept us for extra classes and has put up with our changes and presence in his classroom!
We have been frantically looking for companies and businesses to spinster our car but have been unlucky so far! All we can do is send more emails, except we are running out of places to email! Sponsorship is defiantly one of the biggest challenges that we face!
Here is our completed F1 car design:

My TY highlights so far.....................

I have put together a slide show of my TY highlights from the past five months.

My TY experience so far from Eilise123

Cassette Tape portraits

At the moment in art, We ask doing portraits of famous people. However they arent normal portraits. Mrs O S asked us if we would like to use cassette tapes to make our portraits different. We all jumped for the idea and were really excited about it. The first thing that we need to do was get a picture of our chosen celebrity. The celebrity that I chose to do is Olly Murs because he is one of my favorite singers. We went to the computer room to select our images from google and then used a site called pixlr to make the picture black and white (the black would be cassette tapes). We each printed of one picture and went back to the art room.
We were then given the choice whether we wanted to do the portrait on an A2 or A3 page. I chose A3 because I thought that A2 was a bit big! We then had to draw the outline of our person and shade in the black parts of the picture. Once this was finished, we had to get the 2 cassette tapes that all of us had collected and use them to fill in the shaded areas in the picture. This is the stage that I am at now! I find it quite difficult to decide which way the tapes look best but I am getting there!
Here are a few examples of what we are trying to achieve:

James Taylor

Bob Marley

The Beatles

Teddy Bears in the making......

At the moment in Home Ec, we have started making teddies. We were given the list of materials before Christmas so that we would have everything that we needed when we came back after the Christmas holidays! The material that I chose is denim! We also had to get brown embroidery thread and eyes!
Since we do cookery in our Tuesday double class, Ms M told us that we would be sewing in our Friday double class! So far i have drawn our teddy bear patterns, pinned them to our fabric, cut the pieces out and started my teddy's arms, legs and ears. For the arms,legs and ears, you have to tack two pieces together before using the sewing machine! This is what I did in class today! I had finished the tacking in the class last Friday so Ms M brought some sewing machines into the kitchen so that myself and other people who were finished could sew the limbs together properly! I then removed the tacking from the pieces, except for one arm which chose not to cooperate and had to be
ripped back and started again! After all of the tacking was removed I started tacking the ears onto the back of the head! I will post pictures next week!
Eilise :Dxx

Formula One!

Since finding out that team Rápido y Furioso had gotten through to the regional finals of the F1 in schools competition, We have all been working really hard on our design for our cars, and also trying to promote our team and gain support. The team consists of myself, Katie H, Orlaith K, Ciara K and Ciara Molloy.
This week has been especially difficult as the design for the car has to be finished and sent to our make centre by this Friday!! We have been using any time possible to go to the tech room and finish our design on the solid works and we are almost finished. We have changed our minds a lot but I think that we finally know what we want the car to look like.

• This is the first design that we did on the solid works, however we changed our minds about how we wanted it to look so we made a second design!

Design #1 on solid works!

• This is a slide show showing our second design!

                               Design #2 on solid works

Back to school!!:)

So its our second week back and to be honest, I was really looking forward to coming back. Since last week, we have been getting exam results and projects from before Christmas back. We are also being given new projects to start.
In geography, we have started studying medical geography. This is basically learning about disease and where and how they occur in the world. We were given the task of finding the top ten diseases, both in developed and developing countries. I found it really interesting to compare the diseases. Along with that we have all been given different diseases, and we have to make a leaflet displaying what the disease is, symptoms, vaccinations, causes and treatment. the disease that I was given is malaria. Even though we have only started the topic, i know that I am going to enjoy it.
In Home ec., we have started to collect materials for making Teddy bears. We have also starting baking. Yesterday we made apple crumble. In art, we have started portraits of celebrities using old cassette tapes. In science we are working on our project for sci fest, which is due for the start of February. We are doing our project on factors that influence dreams.
Eilíse:Dxx

Naming our Junk Kouture!!

Since the start of TY we have been taking part in Junk kouture. The deadline is coming up next week and the outfits are starting to look like something that could be worn. Its amazing to see how something that was someones junk can be turned into an outfit. Our idea was inspired by music. At first we decided to just use Cds but soon changed the idea and decided to use tapes, manuscript, and earphones as well as the Cds. Its taken a lot of time and effort to make the outfit and unfortunatly our time is coming to an end at the deadline for this project is tommorrow. I think everyone is under alot of pressure to get the outfits finished but we will have to work fast. We are almost finished but we still hav to make a necklace and also secure some pieces at the top of the dress! Everyone is getting excited for the fashion show which will be held on monday!
We spent a lot of time debating over a name for our design. We wanted to have a name that represented our theme of music. In the end we came up with 'Forte Fashion'!:)
Eilíse:Dxx

Catching up!;)

 

It had been a while since I last blogged so I'm just going to catch up on everything that has gone on in the past few weeks.

Technology:

At the moment in tech we are getting ready to enter a competition. The idea for the competition is to build a formula 1 car. There are six people on my team and our team name is rapído y furioso. I am the resource manager which means I am in charge of finding materials and equipment that is needed to complete the project and to keep track of time.

Junk Kouture:

We do our Junk Kouture project in home EC. and art classes, so that gives us six classes a week. At the moment we are on the way to the finish. There are only minor things left to fix on our dress and we just have to finish the accessories. We are having trouble coming up ith a name for our project but I'm sure we will come up with something. We also still have to figure out what we will be doing for hair and make-up. Our deadline is the 7th f December but the school fashion show will take place on the week of the tenth.

Geography:

We are coming near the end of our first Trip around the world powerpoint. However we have been put into pair and given a country. The country that I got is Kenya. The project involves selling the country as a unique travel spot. The presentation has to be 6-8 minutes long.