Post # 28

In the office...

And the next day... Model building with the Matriculants of Fairmount Secondary School.

Mr Lamb had asked me a while back, if I could make some time during this year to assist the grade 12's (a class of about 14) in a workshop on how to build a basic house model. Well, we decided that this Saturday The class and I would get together. I had to draw up a list of basic materials they could possibly use; for Mr Lamb to buy. I was pretty excited about this too; my first class, where I'm the one teaching! :) haha. (This also made me think about where I want my career to head to... maybe teaching/ lecturing could be an option.)

All that was needed to do was take the base information in their process documents and build their model from it. The information in their process documents contained their research, a situation, design brief, constraints, initial designs, final design, constructed drawings, etc. 

My workshop started from 9am and ended at about 5pm. I taught them about scale: they had to make the model to the scale of 1:50, and build it from the plans they had drawn (1:100). On this note if you didn't know, Mr Lamb is also a Civil Technology teacher. The model was one of the grade 12's major projects of the year. I also taught them basic techniques that I would use when making models. For the whole day each student managed to complete about 90% of  their models. The student were also assisted by the school's care-takers, Mr Lamb and one of his employees (a site builder). All that the students were left to do was to add the finishing touches to their models. 

Thanks to all the students and all the good feedback they gave me. It was a pleasure working with them.

And thank you,

Rukiya...