February 29, 2016Today was a Staff Day, so just like the past four weeks or so I wasn't at school on Monday. March 1, 2016On Tuesday we were searching what materials we need for the rings. We were deciding what type of metals we wanted to use and how much we need of each metal. Rachel then left and I continued on the research of what we need and want to do with the rings to sell. I was also looking on how we could incorporate jewels into the rings. I watched some videos but the best one I saw had the ring jetting off the ring, with a little stand, the look Rachel and I are going for doesn't have anything like that so Scott suggested we used Epoxy Glue instead. We are still deciding what we should do. -What if we cut one ring in two, and measure the size of the jewel, and cut the perfect hole for it sharing the cut between the two half rings, the we glue(temporary hold) with it all together, then solder it together, the two half rings so the jewel is stuck -Epoxy Glue to hold the jewel? .-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKtCOw3tLCA March 2, 2016Wednesday Paris asked Rachel and I to help teach her how to make a ring for her side project to make up for last Semester. By making a ring she thinks it will help bump up her grade. Rachel and I started up with showing her the safety, then setting it up for straightening the piece of Aluminum. After that we showed her how to switch tools, and how to face, and surface. While we started to surface it the aluminum was left with an uneven finish, so Rachel and I continued to try different things, checking to see if we skipped a step or did something wrong, but we couldn't figure out what had happened so we left it before we did any damage. While we were teaching Paris how to use the Lathe, she was taking notes. Since we couldn't continue on the Lathe until Scott would help us, I looked over some of her notes and noticed they didn't have all the information needed and some didn't make much sense. I re-wrote her notes and gave her some visual picture to look to for more information. I wrote everything we did on the Lathe that would normally go smoothly. After I finished that I went on the computer to work on this blog since I couldn't work on the Lathe to finish the ring to test the etching again, this time on Aluminum. March 3, 2016Today was not only a Half day so the schedule was weird, but we also had a physical and a fire drill so we had about 30 minutes of class. Scott gave us a survey to fill out on our physics class so during this period I did the survey, and worked on my Blog. There wasn't enough time to work on rings because by the time we would have set up, we would have had to clean it up. March 4, 2016Friday was a very productive day, we started off by going to the front desk and asking the girls what kind of materials they want their ring to be made out of, and what they want them to say on it. We then headed back to the class and worked out in the commons. We started off with a few sketches on how we want our business card to look, and then from there we worked on order forms. We came up with a rough draft of what it could look like and what could be on it. From there we went online and started to make another, more professional draft of it. We also had to figure out a way we can measure peoples fingers through the flyer, so Rachel and I came up with and idea. Drawing a straight line across the paper with directions above the line saying "Mark the width of your finger on the line". We weren't sure if people would know how to do it the correct way, so we were going around the class and handed them the paper and told them to fill that part out, not giving them any clues on how to do it. Everyone we asked did it the correct way. When we finished our form, we showed Scott and got approval from him, so then we went back to the front desk and asked if it's still good for us to put our forms on their desk. The girls said how it would be easier to just send an online survey to the entire school, so everyone will see it. Yes, it was a good idea, but then the past period we were basically working for nothing. We decided to keep the original form we had, but also send out an online one. The rest of the period we were working on the online form, but didn't get to finish before school got out.
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