PVU GCE Portfolio

This unit, Surgery, in our STEAM class Cure, we learned about the body in all perspectives. We discussed the purpose of different surgeries and the process. For this Action Project, we were instructed to choose and present a prezi about the surgery. I decided to do rotator cuff surgery due to my mom tearing her rotator cuff last year. There are four different muscles in the rotator cuff, I chose to talk about the Subscapularis. I was really interested in this muscle because it is the most common use in everyday life. This muscle helps the whole arm move vertically and horizontal. I struggled a lot with finding different resources to use. I knew a lot about this because of my mom, but not as much as I thought. I was able to overcome this by sitting down, listening to music, and persevering. I really enjoyed this Action Project more than some of the other ones that i’ve done. Hope you enjoy!

This is my first Action Project for my last term, Food. In this course we are studying food and where it comes from, history of the food and framing. For this Action Project we had to choose an ingredient and write about it in first person. We had to research a lot about our ingredient and the center origin of it. I liked learning a lot about my family's spice. I had run into a couple problems because my grandparents don't speak the best English. Overall it was a cool project, and I am looking forward to doing it again.

For my second Action Project in Rapid Prototyping, I worked by myself to create a chess piece from scratch. I chose to create the pawn. My design went fairly quickly from a paper sketch, to clay, to cardboard, and to a digital 3D model. I used ABS (same material as Legos) with the Makerbot Replicator 3D printer. I found it very unique to be able to get to use these kinds of machines and not have to pay thousands of dollars for it. We looked at Riemann Sums and the area under a structure like a bridge. We also looked at different types of plastics, impossible objects, forced perspective, and last but not least 3D printers themselves. I am very happy with how it turned out; it was challenging to see other people doing it a harder way than I had come up with. I think my piece turned out really well. Take a look at what I put together in this Prezi.

For my first unit in Water, I learned about h2o and water consumption in our STEAM course. I learned about how slowly water is slowly disappearing. I am proud of learning about how we can save water in the world. For the visual aspect of the project we had to create a poster, which is in the lengths 28x11.  I also went through the trouble of creating a Prezi presentation to give a better understanding of what I've learned. Some of the difficulties were creating the prezi.  I used Prezi. Some of the good things to my project were helping the world and me understand water to a better level. You can check out my presentation below