Travel Brochure Project

Layout- My layout is going to be different from other brochures. The layout is that I am going to have several pages that are together like a visual photo display. I am also going to create a cover for the brochure to make it loo more professional and nice.
Cover of the brochure-

Layout of the brochure-
Final Brochure-

Reflection- I finished my brochure. I am really happy with the brochure it turned out better than expected. The brochure doesn't have a cover like I planned but it is fine. For my brochure I first used Microsoft publisher the background was really plain and I couldn't find a layout that was good for the style I was going for. When I talked to a friend I later found out about another software called Canva. I used Canva and my brochure looked much better. Canva has more variety of backgrounds and it overall looked better. Canva was also easier to use and better. The brochure backgrounds make it more appealing and more eye catching. For next time I might add some more information and try and balance the monochrome and colour in the brochure. Overall I am happy with the brochure even though I had to remove one thing and use another software but this way I learned more while making my brochure.

Travel Brochure Project

Introduction
This term we have a project where we have to pretend to be travel guides and make a travel brochure. I have been to many countries and so I am going to choose my favorite place and make on a brochure on that. I am going to try my best to make a brochure that can persuade people very well. I am going to be using a software called microsoft publisher. I have never used microsoft publisher before so I am sure that I will learn a lot of new things. 
Design Situation
I like my clients to experience new cultures and feel like they entered a new world completely different from there world. I would like to suggest the place India. India is a country with extremely detailed culture and philosophy. India is a place that is diverse but is still very true to its own roots. India has many different monuments.Another thing that a lot of my clients like is beautiful scenery. I would like to suggest the place switzerland. Switzerland is very beutiful with a place with a lot of beutiful scieners. 
Research 
India is a very interesting place. It has a population of more than a billion people. It is the second most populated country in the world. It is the seventh most largest country in the world. India has a big industry called Bollywood that makes one of the most famous movies. The Taj Mahal is one of the wonders of the world. An old emperor called Shah Jahn had built in memory of his wife. Switzerland designs amazing army knifes and watches. Switzerland  makes army knifes but they don't actually have an army.  
Design Brief
I chose the place India. The brochure i going to have a cover and then there will be paper with information inside it. The brochure is going to be called The ulitimate guide to India. It is going to have informations with a lot of pictures. The different monuments are going to be as follows:The main monument in india is the Taj Mahal. Taj Mahal is very beautiful and is a great display of mughal aritechecture and it is a must to visit it if you go to India. Another monument that is really amazing is the Qutb Minar. The Qutb Minar is an old pillar. Another monument that is the india gate which is a monument made in memory of solidiers who died in war.  

Tech Fair Project

Term 2- Tech Fair 2017

Name: Samia Kapoor

Class: 8-BB

Unit Title: Tech Fair Project

Statement of Inquiry: Developments in technology have led to scientific and technical innovations extending its scope to diverse fields today

Global Context: Scientific and Technical Innovation

ATL Skills: Creative Thinking and Research

Key Concepts: Development

Related Concepts: Innovation and invention 
Article- The project that I am going to be telling you about is not made by a student. It is actually made by one of the biggest companies, it is made by google. It is google's self-driving car. This is a car that is very expensive. It can drive itself and the owner doesn't have to drive the car. Google decided to make this to make driving easier for everyone. Google thought it was nice to have a fully self-driving technology in a car because it would be much nicer to reach a place by pushing a button instead of driving. Google has made these cars and have tested them out on streets and say that they work great. The cars have sensors which is able to detect anything that is in fornt of it. For example, if the car is going and the sensor picks up that there is someone in front then the software will automatically slow down the car in order to not hit the other car. This project was started in 2009 then they started making prototypes and testing their creations and then finally they made a fully self-driving car. Google self-driven car went for over 2 million miles. The project was so successful that Google decided to make an independent self-driving technology company which they named Waymo. Google is working on a way of changing the product a bit and so when the car gets put of control the owner can regain control back again to avoid accidents in case the car malfunctions.
reflection- I decided to talk about the self-driving cars because the project really interested me. I think this was very fun to get to know about what nice and new innovations technology has to offer for us. It was a lot of fun researching and getting to know more information about a project that I was interested in. It was tricky to get all the right data but in the end I got it and I am pretty happy with my description. 

reflection- These are my three ideas for the tech fair. I haven't yet decided which I am going to use but I think all the ideas are unique and very nice. I think I will see which project is most relevant and then make my choice. It involved a lot of thinking to come up with these projects. I think they might have some flaws which means I won't be able to make some of these ideas but I will see the best one and get started on that for my tech fair project.  

Reflections- This is my presentation. I used power point presentation to make this. I used different animations to make it look good to make it nice to present to our class. When we were presenting our project to the class at first they didn't like our project but then we changed it and then they liked it in the end. I enjoyed presenting it to the class they all had great suggestions and amazing question. This project is on if the steps to start our project and I am sure this will help us a lot along the way. 

Design Brief - The laser alarm is an alarm system that protects burglars from coming into your house. It is designed for people who live in unsafe areas and need extra protection in their house. The design will include two parts the laser pointer and the mother board and when the signal to the motherboard is blocked the alarm will ring and you can catch the burglar. There are going to be two circuits that are going to be joined together and then attached to the motherboard. The two circuits will be the detection circuit and the alarm circuit.The motherboard is going to have a Led, an electric buzzer, the 2N7000 transistor, Battery and battery cap, 6.8 resistance, 100 Ohm restiance, wire and then all these are going to be soldered together in order to complete the circuit and get the motherboard finished. Our product will be placed in front of the gate or your door so the laser will be on one side and the motherboard will be on the other side the laser will act as a tripwire so when the burglar enters it will ring and you can catch the burglar easily. 

Reflection- I tried my best to explain my design brief as best as I could. I answered the questions that were given to me by my teacher in my deign Brief. The design Brief was a little hard to write because it was hard to explain what I am going to be doing. I think next time I am going to try to add more detailed information in order to explain my project better. 

REFLECTION 

This is my firszt time doing a tech fair project. I have nver done this before in my old school. This was a very interesting journey for me and I learnt so many new things. At first we came up with an idea that wasn't very nice and it was scientific. Later on we came up with a better idea. The project was a little complicated we made 3 circuts until we found a working one. In the end we decided to make another simple version of the project so then we had 2 types of alarms. Evetually we made a good project and got in the tech fair. 

Criterion D- Evaluating the solution

reflection on table:
The table that I made has a very unique table stand. It has many bright colors so that it can look good in anybody's dining room. It also has a beautiful family quote on top. This was easy to make on tinker cad because this is a design that only has straight lines which makes it easy to work with. It didn't come out exactly as planned but I am happy with my work. I will play around with my design so that i can improve it to make it look better.
reflection on heel:
The heels that i made was a heel that carries make-up. It has a hollow space in the wedge to store all women's make-up. This show has a unique design with a really pretty diamond on the back of the shoe. This was a design that was very hard to make on tinker cad since it has a wedge. This heel does not look like what i had planned ans done in my outline but i tried my best and I still like this heel. In future I plan on improving this and make more versions of this like this but in flats and I plan on using all the shapes on tinker cad to my advantage.
term reflection:

Criterion C- Creating the solution

Exploring Tinker Cad Skills to create my chosen design

Criterion B- Developing ideas

Criterion B- Developing Ideas

Date: 26/10/16
There are four strands for this:
-Design specification
-Design sketches and ideas
-Planning
-Choose a design

                            Design Specification-1 

Design specification-2 

Design sketches of the heels 

reflection- These heels design are all made to carry makeup on with the area that is given on the bottom. I drew them by studying a lot of pictures of heels on the internet and modify them in my own way, I made them all in different colours so different heels go with different outfits and they also depend on the number of make-up you have. I decided to draw it instead of using word document because the complex design is easier on paper.  

Design sketches of the dining table 

reflection- These dining tables are made to make your dining room more colorful and make it better looking. I drew them on paper instead of microsoft word because this is a complex design which is easier to do by hand and it is easier to picture the finished product in your mind. 

                                       Testing your Design  

DESIGN TECHNOLOGY

                                      3D PRINTERS 

Date:5/10/16
The world is coming up with technology so fast and progressing rapidly. One of the latest technology gadget is the 3D printer. A 3D printer is a printer that prints out a 3D model of a 2D image. The 3D model of an object is first made on a computer using a 3D model maker application and then is 3D printed using a 3D printer. 3D printers are not in stores yet but many big companies have them. I recently went to the metropolitan art museum and me and my relatives decided to the fashion section of the museum and there were two dresses which were 3D printed. There were little parts that were printed using a 3D printer which were then put together to make a dress.

Date:10/10/16 reflection;The first lesson was about learning the moves just so we can know exactly what to do for the next lessons. It was quite easy but it helped me to learn the features of the software, This was a great base to start the new software. 

Date: 10/10/16 reflection: All of these lessons taught us how to use the different features of this new software that we are working with this year. The second lesson taught me more features of this software. It showed me how to look at the same image from different angles. This feature is definitely going to be very helpful when I make my own 3D models so that I can view my model from all angles. This lesson also taught me how to zoom in and out of images which is going to be helpful to notice details of 3D models that I will later make.  These features are important since it minimizes the time used to make a 3D model because without these features we would have to constantly move shapes everywhere to see it from all angles and we could have flaws in certain places because without zoom we can't see all details so it would the project much more time consuming and complicated.

Date: 10/10/16 reflection: This lesson was harder than the other two but it taught us how to change sizes of certain shapes. This lesson taught us how to make new complex shapes using just some simple shapes.This is later going to help us make complicated 3D models using simple shapes. It helps break down the complex figures into simple figures that are easier to understand. It helps notice the composition of the complex shape that is created. This feature is important for creating the right height length and breath for each part of the 3D model. 

Date: 10/10/16 reflection: This lesson taught us how to put holes in different objects so that in our 3D models we can make different parts with holes or so that we can keep one side open. This helps us give more definition to the shape that way the 3D model can look better and more complex. 

Design situation -1

Date: 14/10/16 The UAE Nurses Association claims that one of the most difficult parts of their job is dealing with small children who have a fear of needles.  Although the association has some tips and tricks like putting numbing cream to partially freeze the surface of the skin before injecting medicine, sometimes the anxiety levels of small children are so high that it is difficult to get them to hold still.  If only there was an easier way to administer medicine within the syringe.

        

Date: 14/10/16 About my syringe: I made a very colourful syringe so that kids think it is like a toy. I made this so that oral vaccines can be given easier since they generally very hard to give and are genereally very bad tasting so kids dont want to take them but with this kids will think it is fun to play with and will eaily take the drops easily. This is way the drops can be easily given since nurses wont have to take a new tube of vaccine and she can just reuse this tube.  

My Design situation-2

Date: 14/10/16 69 percent of women wear heels for special occasions and 74 percent of women wear makeup and makeup bags are one of the top 3 things that women carry in their purse 64 percent of women carry their makeup around. Many women have a lot of problems carrying around purses since it becomes very heavy and it hurts many women's shoulder and neck. Many women have a problem of not being able to carry their makeup to special occasions and many times women cannot find their makeup in their makeup bag. I will design a pair of heels that will have a space for all makeup items so women don't have to carry purses they can just wear the heels and go to a special occasion. Many people also have problems because a lot of people pickpocket so this will also have a souluction to that problem. 

Design Brief-1 

Date: 17/10/16 An easy solution is to create a heel that carries makeup around on special occasions. A very popular heel design are heels that have a little platform in the toe area and a little platform in the bottom of the shoe and they have a thick heel so those areas will be equipt with certain holes so that makeup can easily be inserted in these areas. This way the space in heels can be used more productively. I am aiming this product at women who need a place to carry their makeup on special occasions. There can be magnetic door below each hole so the makeup doesnt slip out on the bottom of the shoe to easily access your makeup. This way women can go to washroom take off their shoes get the makeup apply it and put the makeup right back in its position. In a makeup bag things can get lost on the bottom so this way each product can have a designated area so you know where exactly your makeup is kept. The mascara and eyeliner can be kept in the heel, the lipstick can be kept in the platform below the toe area and the eye-shadow palettes and foundation can be kept in the bottom platform and the other shoe can be used to store makeup sponges and brushes. These heels are perfect for keeping other emergency items like emergency money in case something happens. This is great for places that have a lot of people who pickpocket because no one would think there is money in someone’s heels.

 My Design Situation-3 

Date:14/10/16 15 percent of people are moving into a new house every year which means that they need complete new furniture and one thing that is an important part is the dinig room, The dinig room is a imporatant place since a family sits together there at least 3 times a day so the place must be great since so much time is spent in the dinig room. The most imporatant feature of a dinig room is the table set but they generelly just comein wood,marble or solid colours but since you spend so much time there it should be better. I will design a table with clolourful wood and quote. 

                                  Design Brief-2

Date: 17/10/16 I have a souluction to this problem of boring funrtiture. I will create a table that has a quote on it so that the dinig table looks better. The quote will be writeen on top of solid colour wood . I will make then bottom of the table bow shaped so it looks very detailed and nice. Instead of having boring old chairs I will have benches with same bow shaped bottom as the table and I will have also put a quote on the benches .I am aiming this products at people who are planning to move into a new house or for people who are re decorate there dinig room. I think it is a great way to add more demension to the dinig room. This product will be great for people who are trying to get a more mordern dinig table to match there mordern decor instead of old vintage tables. This table will table will also come with a clear cover so that it is easily cleaned off incase any food or water is dropped on ti so taht the wood is not ruined. This product will be decorative and useful to a lot of people.   

peer evaluation