SWS+-+Inukshuk+-+Journals

This week we were given the information for this project. We made our group and spent our first work period brainstorming potential sculpture designs. We wanted to create something that was exciting as well as innovative. Some designs/architecture we considered were: the CN tower, Delta Bessborough, and a snowman. The CN tower idea was the one that we wanted to do the most, but we realized that we didn't have the time or materials that this design required. The snowman idea was brought up, but we decided that it wasn't original enough. A conversation about the Olympics was brought up and the suggestion of a inukshuk was given. We felt that this was a design that we could accomodate, given the fact that Shauvik would be leaving a week earlier than the due date of this project. We spent some time looking at different images of Inukshuks courtesy of Google Images and drew a rough sketch of what our inukshuk would look like. We kept in mind that inukshuks don't have to follow a specific format for their creation. We were also in a dillemma about what to freeze the ice in. We knew that we couldn't use boxes and that plastic containers would break after one use. So we figured out that baking/foil pans would work the best and allow us to remove the ice without the pans breaking.
 * Reflection #1**

1. Shauvik finishes the project concept 2. everyone brings baking pans and/or ice cream pails 3. get a start on freezing ice 4. everyone gets wikispace account 5. find cheap LED's
 * Activities to be completed this week:**

1. Google Images
 * References:**

This week we were waiting to gain access into wikispace and the courtyard while Mr. K was away. Whitney began her work on creating sketches of our design. When we were given access to both things we: Courtyard - We began freezing ice in the pans and pails we had. We froze about 14 blocks of ice, perhaps more. Definetely chilly days... Wikispace - We created our group page and made up a name for us.. SWS Inukshuk! And we began putting our work on the site.
 * Reflection #2**

We found out that LED's cost a lot. So we thought of using a single spotlight and using food colouring to colour our inukshuk. But... everywhere Shreya checked they no longer had spotlights as they are very popular during the Christmas season. Instead she picked up a candycane that lit up to use instead.

1. finish freezing ice 2. whitney finishes the sketches 3. start putting the sculpture together
 * Activities to be completed this week:**


 * References:**
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- This week we finally finished freezing all of the ice. We broke a couple pieces of ice while we trying to get them out of the containers. And.. we learned that an easier way to get the ice was to put warm/hot water on the underside of the containers. That helped us alot! We started putting the sculpture together... and realized that it was not going to look anything like we planned. Our plan is get everything done by Tuesday, but this is weather permitting.
 * Reflection #3**

Another trick we learned was to pour water on top of the sculpture so that it can fuse/mold together overnight. That will hopefully help the sculpture from breaking.

We have also learned of a sabotage by another group. We are crossing our fingers that it does not happen to our group.

- finish commenting on everyone's projects
 * Activities to be completed this week:**
 * -** Finish ice sculpture!!!!


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