IVVC's 2010-2011 Drafting & Design class attempted another Mythbuster Monday challenge by designing, building, and testing a carrier that will go down a zipline and drop a marble on a target. The goal was to drop the marble as close to the bullseye as possible. The carriers were made from a paper cup, tape, a paper clip, and index cards.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
IVVC Drafting & Design Mythbuster Monday - Touchdown
IVVC's 2010-2011 Drafting & Design class attempted another Mythbuster Monday challenge by designing, building, and testing a carrier that will be dropped from 16' above the ground. The goal was to keep cotton balls and ping pong balls from falling out upon impacting the ground. The carriers were made from paper bowls, tape, straws, and index cards.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
IVVC Drafting & Design Mythbuster Monday - Zipline
IVVC's 2010-2011 Drafting & Design class attempted the third Mythbuster Monday challenge of the year by designing, building, and testing a zip line carrier made from paper cups, masking tape, straws, and cardboard. After completing the design and build, students tested the carrier by sliding it down a 6 foot zip line. The goal was to have the carrier go as slow as possible while still moving at all times.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
IVVC Drafting & Design Mythbuster Monday - Watercraft
IVVC's 2010-2011 Drafting & Design class attempted the second Mythbuster Monday challenge of the year by designing, building, and testing a boat made from paper cups, duct tape, straws, and plastic wrap. After completing the design and build, students tested the boat by adding pennies until the boat failed by sinking.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
IVVC Drafting & Design Mythbuster Monday - Paper Table
IVVC's 2010-2011 Drafting & Design class started its first Mythbuster Monday challenge of the year by designing, building, and testing paper tables. Students were given 6 sheets of newspaper, 1 foot of masking tape, and a cardboard table top. The supports for the table were made out of newspaper only. Winners were determined by the number of textbooks the table held.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
INTERIOR DESIGN PROJECT
by Steff T. (Sandwich)
This semester in Drafting, one of the main projects was to design a room in a house. For First year students, this meant picking a room out of the house that they are currently designing. For second year students, they picked a room out of a house that they designed last year.
The requirements of this task are to draw up four detailed elevations of the walls and one floor plan. Each of them also needed to include some paint samples, maybe some floor samples, and decorations. For the presentation, which was five Wednesdays after the assignment was given, students needed to explain why they chose the colors for the room, what their theme was, how and why the furniture is laid out, and their budgets.
I thought this project was fun. I really got to be creative in my choices of colors and designs.
MONDAY CHALLENGES
by: Collin G.
Each Monday the Drafting & Design class gets together and has a challenge set up for all of us. These little brain twisters often tease us by how easy it can be to do something. We have to find a way to make our project work better than all the others. Week one we received one piece of cardboard about 8 1/2 x 11 inches, a heavy book (textbook), masking tape, and eight sheets of newspaper. The object is to get as many books as you could hold on top of the cardboard. It had to be at least eight inches off the table.
In week two we were assigned to do a watercraft project. We each received duct tape, paper cups, 10-inch strip of plastic wrap, ten straws, and twenty five pennies. Also, there was a container full of water. We had to build a boat out of these materials and see who’s boat could hold the most pennies before the boat started taking on water.
In week three we had to make a zip-line, we got a piece of chipboard, 2 small paper cups, a ping pong ball, four plastic straws, scissors, a single-hole punch, four feet of tape. The first heat we had to make our zip-line carrier go down the string within four seconds, in the next heat we had to try to get the closest to four seconds, and in the last heat we had to try and make our carries last ten seconds before it hit the bottom.
Build, test, evaluate, & redesign are four things to consider while trying to design. You will mostly never be right the first time, you should always see what you did wrong the first time and try to make it better. Drafting & Design is a great hands-on class that prepares you for the future of drafting. In order to design something everyone needs to have ideas that are different and unique, that’s what makes the design better than all the others. I have learned a lot about designing from this class and it has helped me in a lot of different ways over the past year with other projects.
Each Monday the Drafting & Design class gets together and has a challenge set up for all of us. These little brain twisters often tease us by how easy it can be to do something. We have to find a way to make our project work better than all the others. Week one we received one piece of cardboard about 8 1/2 x 11 inches, a heavy book (textbook), masking tape, and eight sheets of newspaper. The object is to get as many books as you could hold on top of the cardboard. It had to be at least eight inches off the table.
In week two we were assigned to do a watercraft project. We each received duct tape, paper cups, 10-inch strip of plastic wrap, ten straws, and twenty five pennies. Also, there was a container full of water. We had to build a boat out of these materials and see who’s boat could hold the most pennies before the boat started taking on water.
In week three we had to make a zip-line, we got a piece of chipboard, 2 small paper cups, a ping pong ball, four plastic straws, scissors, a single-hole punch, four feet of tape. The first heat we had to make our zip-line carrier go down the string within four seconds, in the next heat we had to try to get the closest to four seconds, and in the last heat we had to try and make our carries last ten seconds before it hit the bottom.
Build, test, evaluate, & redesign are four things to consider while trying to design. You will mostly never be right the first time, you should always see what you did wrong the first time and try to make it better. Drafting & Design is a great hands-on class that prepares you for the future of drafting. In order to design something everyone needs to have ideas that are different and unique, that’s what makes the design better than all the others. I have learned a lot about designing from this class and it has helped me in a lot of different ways over the past year with other projects.
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