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Journal 1 (Week of Dec 29)

Sakina and Zoma

After brainstorming ideas for this project we have decided that we will make a cake as an ice sculpture. We were thinking of making a christmas tree but we think it would hard to create sharp edges and intricately carve the snow so we decided to make a cake instead. The cake will have a base in which we want to try to incorporate sound. It is hard to incorporate sound in this. 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. A teacher said 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. This is something we shall try to do but not sure if we will accomplish it. We were thinking of having 3 different layers: in the middle layer, we would carve out Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays and put food coloring on the letters to make them stand out. Also, we were thinking of carving little snowflakes out of the leftover ice and put them up and around the cake. In the cake we would incorporate led lights so the cake glows and so do the snow flakes on top of it.

Activities to be completed this and Next Week

1. Find buckets and freeze water 2. Create a final design of the project 3. Come up with a list of materials to get and assign who will get what 4. Get the materials