Small Medium is a ghost-themed comic zine that serves as a pilot for a larger series of comics. Small medium is geared towards teens and has supernatural and murder mystery elements. Each comic follows a monster of the week format where the protagonists have to help a different ghost complete their final wish before they can move to what comes next. In the pilot, the main villain is introduced as Moss's mother, who is currently under the possession of the same serial killer who killed Cherie. The mechanic of ghosts' final wishes is also introduced; these wishes are the regrets and repressed emotions that stop them from moving forward. The comic has a limited print of some copies and consists of ten pages. The art is all hand inked with a grey tone added. The style is simple for the main characters but is broken for depictions of scarier ghosts. The comic is a pilot for future comics that would more greatly explore the characters and world-building. This comic is meant to echo with people who are coping with their own ‘ghosts’ or parts of their past that are holding them back. While the main goal of the comic is to be entertaining, seeing fictional characters overcome struggles similar to one’s own can be extremely empowering.

The Mindfulness Eating Kit is an assortment of dishware that incorporates meditation into the dining experience as a way to reduce stress, increase focus, and help lessen anxiety or stress-induced eating. It does this by using a series of objects that integrate colors, sounds, and textures, allowing people to unwind while eating.

The Mindfulness Eating Kit is the solution to stress and emotional eating. People that resort to eating as a way to reduce stress often don’t achieve their intended goal. Instead, they end up feeling worse than before. By incorporating various meditation tools, this kit allows people to eat and meditate at the same time, which will, in turn, reduce their stress. This kit is primarily for teens and adults that endure stress daily.  It is also intended for those who have anxiety or are constantly in stress-inducing environments and situations. This could include school or work. The kit is designed like a standard lunch box. In the lunch box, however, there is a compartment for a sandwich, and on top of the sandwich are four tools that tackle four vital parts of meditation: breath, visual focus, mantras, and soothing sounds. The sandwich is cut into quarters, and each quarter is eaten sequentially after using the tools to complete parts of the mindfulness process. Once completing the four steps, the user should feel more relaxed, allowing their mind to be more clear and ready to tackle the rest of the day. This process is meant to become a daily routine that is integrated into one's lifestyle, to continuously implement mindfulness. It directly incorporates meditation into eating which is much more effective at reducing stress and improving focus than the alternative solution, using food alone.

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Danehy Park Project: Aveen Nagpal, Chiara Blissett, Christopher Kitchen, Declan McEnerney, Ella Giesser, Ethan Donaldson, Maddie Johnson-Harwitz, Nathan Berger, Pierre Belizaire, Richie Lourie, Tinna Grönfeldt

(Refined) Pipe Dreams: Aveen Nagpal, Chiara Blissett, Christopher Kitchen, Ella Giesser, Maddie Johnson-Harwitz, Richie Lourie, Tinna Grönfeldt

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Siena Brief:

Conscientious Chocolate is a chocolate maker about bringing awareness to the time-consuming, process of making chocolate. as well as the negative aspects of mass manufacturing chocolate. while also being a compact tool with multiple uses. 

This concept exists because there are a lot of negative aspects of mass-producing chocolate. An example of this is that companies like Hersheys and Nestley use child labor to farm their cocoa beans. Also, the average person eats about eleven pounds of chocolate per year, but the average cocoa tree only produces about one pound of chocolate per year. This ratio is not sustainable. Conscientious Chocolate includes a nibbler, a piece of wood which has a 3d printed spiky piece on it so it can break cocoa beans into nibs. The nibbler connects to an axle that has a grinder on the other side. The grinder is another 3d printed piece that is shaped like a lightbulb it pulverizes the cocoa beans. All three elements of the design were covered in resin to make the project food-safe. During the process, there needs to be something to hold the cocoa beans, so there is a 3d printed piece that changes from a box(for the nibbler) to bowl(for the grinder). it's important for people to understand the amount of time and effort it takes to make chocolate. So next time they think twice before buying a bar of chocolate instead of making it themselves.

'Anara's Brief'

'Conscientious Chocolate' A project designed to bring awareness to how much work and time goes into the chocolate producing and making. The project is a compact chocolate making kit that you can flip on different sides to use in a convenient way.

In the current chocolate industry, there are many faults. The Conscientious Chocolate is designed to bring awareness to two large problems. One, is children being used for labor in the picking, and drying of the beans. The second is the imbalance of the amount of chocolate being grown to the amount being eaten. The average cacao tree grows around half a pound worth of chocolate a year, while the average human eats about eleven pounds in one year. Using the kit, it takes around three hours to make a couple pieces of chocolate, and a lot of manual labor. The kit is made of 3d printed materials covered in food safe resin. The product consists of two features:  a two sided bowl and a crusher. One side of the bowl  is round like a mortar and pestle, to grind the cacao into chocolate; the other side has a flat bottom to crush the beans into nibs. The crusher consists of two sides: a flat side, that fits into the flat bowl, it is a circle with a bumpy base that crushes the nibs. The other side of the crusher is a round club that allows the nibs to more finely ground into chocolate paste.

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