You will be creating your presentation on the NuVu Platform.

Things to do/think about:

• Your presentation should be located in the Portfolio tab of your project.
• There should be (1) post titled with The Name of Your Project with all of the slides.
• You should have (1) post of a video of your project in action. Chances are people wont be able to see your work from and we can project a video of your project working.
• All slides should have a title. You can add titles when editing the post
• With the exception of the Title slide NO TEXT SHOULD APPEAR ON YOUR SLIDES.
• Only (1) image per slide. Images should be uploaded directly. Make sure that the images aren't pixelated! NO GOOGLE DOCS!!!
• Be sure to add your team members as collaborators and make the (2) posts Public.
• Only one team member can edit a post at a time!
• Presentations should be no longer than 3 minutes. PRACTICE!

1st Post : Title this post the Name of Your Project

Absolutely no more than 9 Slides!

1 Title/Intention Slide. For build projects, describe the Problem and Solution. For conceptual projects this can be expressed as Intention/Solution. The slide should include the name of the project and a one sentence statement of both the problem and the solution.

• One slide to show conceptual idea. 
• One slide to show mechanical or functional idea.

1 Concept Sketch. This should be a clean sketch of your initial ideas. If you do not have a nice drawing or lost yours, create one now!

2 Iteration Slides. These slides should show early prototypes of your design. Focus on big changes. You do not need to show tiny changes.

2-3 Final Slides. These should show clean images of your final project (these should be taken in the photo booth).

Text:

The text of your post should have a strong narrative that ties together the Why, How and What of your project through clear, cogent writing. Tell the story of how your idea was born, developed, and manifest.

The text should include the following 2 items:

1. A 1-2 sentence project description. 
2. A 1-2 paragraph brief for your project based on the description below.. The primary purpose of the text is to explain, entice, and convince the reader that your project is amazing and important. Imagine your project on display in the Museum of Modern Art. The text of your post is hanging on the wall next to your work. In 1-2 paragraphs, a viewer should understand what your project is, why it exists, and how you made it. More importantly, the viewer should be interested and care. You will draw them into your project through a compelling narrative.

Things to think about:

• The what is a clear statement of the thesis or problem+solution.
• The why explains how your project changes the world. It is the reason your project exists – what social issue is it engaging, who is your project helping, how does the project change the world, and what important social, intellectual, or technical questions does it raise?
• The how briefly explains what technical prowess, innovative methods, or cool materials you used in your solution.

Here is an example from Penelope the Pain-O-Monster:

Pediatricians and other doctors find it challenging to collect accurate self reported information from children about their level of pain due to lack of communication skills, fear, anxiety, and discomfort. Traditional 1-10 pain scales do not fully address these issues, often leading to uncomfortable children and inaccurate symptom information. Penelope the Pain-O-Monster is a cute plush toy that uses integrated pressure sensors to allow children to express their source and level of pain through play.     

Our previous project, The EmoOwl, helped children with autism to express themselves by translating motion into color. As we sought to expand our children’s health menagerie, we thought about making a different stuffed animal to help kids in hospitals. We quickly realized that the pain charts that patients used to express their pain could be made more interactive and easier for a child to use. We read that playing with stuffed animals can take the children’s mind off the pain so we created an additional “Fun” mode to distraction from pain and anxiety. The handcrafted stuffed animal uses force sensors in different body parts that light up from blue to red depending on how hard they are pushed to show the child’s pain level. It is our hope that Penelope will help sick children feel safer while providing more useful information to care providers. We anticipate that Penelope and the EmOwl will soon have many more friends to help improve healthcare for kids.

2nd Post: Video

Upload a short video showing your project in action. Do not count on your project working as you expect during the presentation.

Alex Shigueta: The Tasty Turtle Treat: A delicious gingerbread cake that is designed to look like many turtles swimming in plastic wrappers, to raise awareness about the widespread issue of plastic pollution in the ocean.

Over one million aquatic animals die from the 100 million tons of plastic dumped in the ocean every single year. The Tasty Turtle Treat consists of many small chocolate turtles inserted into and on top of a gingerbread mold resembling six-pack soda rings. The turtles were created by pouring liquid chocolate into a silicone mold. The Tasty Turtle Treat arouses emotions when the viewer sees the small sea turtles that appear to be swimming, inside the outsize six-pack soda rings.

This dessert was created to put the people in the turtles' position by having to consume a  dessert in the form of plastic rings. The hope is that the dissonance created between the unfortunate tale of the turtles and the great taste can resolve into feeling good about “cleaning” up the plastic mess on the plate. It would be exceptional for that wonderful feeling of consuming The Tasty Turtle Treat to translate into stopping plastic pollution and letting the turtles swim in plastic-free water

Julia Brief

12 by 12: A dessert consisting of 12 chocolate sculptures that represent the data of annual deaths due to police violence and are presented on an outline of a body portraying the narrative of Michael Brown. Viewers experience the stone cold statistics made vivid through the individual story of a victim of violence.

An issue society faces today is police violence, and the abuse of power by police. 12 by 12 sheds light on the issue at hand and provides an interactive experience to personalize what viewers may have become numb to. The dessert is constructed with a body outline, mimicking the chalk outlines that were used for bodies. On this body are 12 holes out of which protrude 12 graphs, made out of chocolate. These graphs create a circular formation, resembling a crown. These graphs are direct representations of the data of people killed by police in the year 2018. The platter that the dessert is served on is a body outline, representing the story of Michael Brown. Michael Brown was an 18 year old African American who was a suspect of a convenience store robbery in Ferguson, Missouri. He was fatally shot 12 times by Darren Wilson, a white police officer. Each hole in the body outline serves as a double metaphor for both the number of times Brown was shot at, and to represent the 12 months in a year.  It raises questions to authority figures, and governmental institutions. Why do we see racist patterns in people of authority? Should there be a stricter job application for becoming a police officer? It also forces people to acknowledge the prevalence of racism in our society today.

This project is made for the general public. As a common subject of debate today, this dessert is meant to educate the public on the issues, and portray an argumentative response. 12 by 12  is meant to be “used” by eating the individual chocolate graphs. The user is meant to feel uncomfortable when faced with a jarring presentation: chocolate graphs on the body outline. By entering this experience and eating the chocolate, designed to look like bullet perforations, the viewer is meant to feel even more uneasy. By doing this, we hope to instill uneasy feelings extended to police officers. The goal of this is to only slightly mimic the feelings that people of color have towards policemen.

Boston is home to a new breed of innovative restaurants. Feeding off the enormous growth of Boston’s high tech and startup industry, area restaurants are responding with desserts that wow the taste buds and dazzle the imagination. Innovative chefs, like star Dinara Kasko, fill their Instagram feeds with images of their ground-breaking desserts. In a world where integrating math into food excites your appetite, you will use design, algorithms, geometry, digital fabrication, and mold-making methods to create unique 3D dessert creations to be served at one of Boston’s premier restaurants, Pagu!

In this studio, students will be working with Pagu’s founder and chef on creating new high-tech desserts for their menu. Using the combined power of digital design (computer aided drafting, 3D modeling) and rapid prototyping tools (laser cutters, 3D printers, CNC milling), students will learn mold making and casting techniques to produce futuristic desserts. Students will also learn the foundation of pastry making, while forming their own individualized visual and gustation palettes. Bring your appetite, and get ready to enter the high-tech culinary world!

REGISTER HERE!

Focus Skills/Subjects/Technologies:

   Design

   Physics (Electricity, Magnetism)

   Engineering

   Digital Fabrication (Laser-cutting, 3d Printing)

   3d Modeling

Prerequisites:

• Enrolling students must be between the ages of 11 to 13 (or grades 6-8)

REGISTER HERE!