When I first started my senior project I thought that it would never end but once I got started the project flew by. I had a great time doing my senior project and socializing with my mentor. My project helped me learn a lot of things about building. I will be going into a building program at college and this was a great way to begin my career. Senior project was a success for me.
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Once I completed my power point I was ready to practice my presentation. We were required to watch other peoples presentations and give them constructive criticism to help the improve on there presentation. I had to present mine 2 times and reached the 10 min time requirement. I struggled with the eye contact part mainly because I am nervous presenting. It is a great opportunity to be able to practice our projects in class. It helps to build confidence and hopefully helps to get better grades.
After completing my final product of a printed house floor plan, I have to make a power point of what I am going to talk about in my presentation. I took information that I learned while making the floor plan with my mentor and what i learned in my research paper to put in the presentation. I talked about how they related to each other to tie my paper and project together. I also learned new skills such as time management while doing this whole project. Our power points are our guide that we will use throughout our presentation.
Tomorrow we will be having our senior project work day where we spend half the school day just working specifically on our binders and on our presentations. This is a good way to help prepare for our actual presentations that we will have with the judges. We will be putting all of our forms and letters in our binders. We have to organize it using our table of contents and put in separators as well. We are getting closer to completing this year long project.
I finally printed my final product on an actual blueprint printer provided by Mitchell Technical Institute. I was very thankful that I was able to use the printer. I printed off a floor plan of the house that I drew and some of the elevations to show the outside of the house. I had a great experience drawing and had a fun time with my mentor. I am glad to have my final product completely done.
I have finally completed my project with my mentor and it has been a great experience. I had a lot of fun with creating this blueprint. I had my mentor fill out some forms on his overall perspective and he as well seemed to enjoy the project. I am very happy with my results and can't wait to present it to the public.
I just had my last meeting with my mentor and we went over the blueprint to add in the final dimensions and elevations on the house. It is a good thing that this program was available because I don't think it is possible to do without. One of the toughest things that I had troubles with was doing all the calculations needed to figure out the sizes for all the cabinets and walls to fit together. My mentor was very helpful when it came to this with all of the experience.
Now that I have completed my final product I am ready to begin the next step in my project. We are ready to start filling our binders and begin our presentations. We will make power points to help aid us with our presentation. We will use all the information that we learned from doing our project and explain to the audience what we have done. We will be judged by people who have related experience in that job field.
When creating my blueprint my mentor has been assisting me on some of the more realistic parts to building a house. For example, when I created a wall on the computer program he helped me to understand how the wall was built and what types of materials I needed to complete the wall. Then when making walls we took into consideration the space needed for cabinet space in the kitchen so that the wall was a perfect number for Sheetrock. There are a lot of things to consider when drawing a house, like the plumbing because you have to have an insulated wall on the outside so that the pipes do not freeze, and you want to have even walls with your materials so that you don’t have to cut and fit them. This just makes the building part a lot easier.
Working with my mentor has been a learning experience. He has taught me many things as far as the dimensions go. One main thing that I didn’t know is that all doors in a house are not the same size. Doors that are known as regular size are like your entrance and bedroom doors. Doors that are smaller are usually your storage and bathroom doors. Another thing that I have been learning is the height of ceilings and the width of which you want your hallways to be. I didn’t realize all of the different things that make building a house so complicated.
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April 2017
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