Weekly+Reflections

//**Reflection week #1**//- (Date: December 3rd 2010)

This week we have brainstormed and researched many diffrent ideas. Our ideas varied from ice cars to cristmas presents and carriges. Our first attempt was to design a christmas tree, however after we researched the building methods we concluded that it was a little too difficult.

This is because it would be hard to create sharp edges and intricately carve the snow. We then officially decided to construct a cake. The reason we decided this was due to ease of construction and development and the fact that our original idea the cristmas tree's design was beginning to look very simmilar to a cake. We havn't fully decided on the layout at this point. We do know that it will consist of ice blocks staked on top of one another. We are planning to engrave "Merry Christmas" or some other holiday decorations on to it.

We have decided put food coloring on the letters to make them stand out. Also, we were thinking of carving little snowflakes out of the leftover frozen ice and put them up and around the cake. We havn't fully decided how to apply our concepts of physics yet. Our tools and equiptment are still to be decided. Our group has decided to break down the work equally and each of us will work equally on the parts.

We were planning to carve out the bottom of the base and put a speaker or radio in there but we were told not to use any foreign materials. We are going to try to use the resonance and open and closed air column ideology to incorporate sound in this ice sculpture. We could create an open or closed air column and whenever someone talked in front of the sculpture, the sound would reflected back or echo. We hope to fully complete and achieve the activities listed below.

**Activities to be completed this week and next week:**
 * 1) This week the layout should be fully completed with the pictures consisting of the front, back and three quarter angle view
 * 2) tools and equipment must be bought and prepared for next week
 * 3) Next week the construction of the ice sculpture should be started
 * 4) We will Find buckets and freeze water next week
 * 5) We will Create a final design of the project
 * 6) Next week we wil come up with a list of materials to get and assign who will get what

Refrences (mainly reasearched for ideas)

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//**Reflection week #2**//- (Date: December 10 2010)

This week we firstly picked a spot for the construction of our project. We found a spot between two trees in the courtyard. The design and layout for the cake is now completed and the project is now underway we have began to freeze the base of the cake this week. The base was frozen in yogurt containers full of water from the school and left in the courtyard to freeze overnight. We plan to freeze most of the ice for the weekend. We have a few colours of food coloring picked out that we mixed in with our water and froze. We have changed our bottom layer to 12 block base. This is because the containers we are using are very small and will make the sculture look very small. Tasks from the previous week are now mostly completed. The materials mainly consist of food coloring a LED light, a carving knife and yogurt containers. Both group members have brought the materials.

**Activities to be completed this week and next week:**


 * 1) Have the sculpture finished by Thursday including all the layers frozen
 * 2) insert a LED light into the top.
 * 3) Carve decoration into it
 * 4) have an open or closed air resonanse column inserted
 * 5) Have the pictures of progress posted up.

Refrences (mainly reasearched for ideas)

This week we got all of our ice frozen. We had 6 yellow containers to freeze yellow. There are 5 reds, 4 greens and 1 red. We want to to put LED lights around the cake to give it light. We have a base of 6 yellow ice shapes surrounding 5 orange ice things. Stacking on top are 4 green colored and then on top of that there is a red ice thing to finish off the look. This week was a challenge for us because we had to freeze so many containers and the weather wasnt very cold. Threrefore, our project construction was delayed. On the last day we were expecting the last few contaciners to be frozen but they werent completely frozen so we had to leave them out for a longer time. We went to the containers after school and they were finally frozen so we took the ice out and made the last layer.We also carved ``merry xmas` on another piece of ice and set it in front of our project. We hadn't initially planned this but we did this after we found a block of ice that we froze a long time ago.
 * Reflection week# 3**

**Activities to be completed this week and next week:** 1. have sculpture finished 2. have the final pictures of project posted up