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For our MAKE project, we made a line of accessories out of reusable, everyday items. We created and added onto bags, flip flops, headbands and bracelets using old buttons, scraps of cloth, string, yard or ribbon, and unwanted articles of clothing.

We wanted to do this project because our whole group wanted to do something creative, and we saw that many people liked accessories like headbands, bags, and bracelets, but may not have had the money and/or time to go out and buy them. We created these accessories to show that making these items is fun, and easy.

We faced many challenges during this assignment. Our first challenge was using detail when filling out our proposal form. We must have showed Mr.McCloud our proposal four times before getting it right. We also had a few design dilemmas. Our most recent problems when designing our accessories was making them comfortable, and attractive. Alexa was working on some very comfortable flip flops this last week, and her design was cool because it looked like a collage, but once it was all put together, even though it was comfy, it just did not look right. We had to problem solve twice as hard this last week to achieve our goal of making the flip flops both comfortable, and attractive. Another big challenge we had to face during this project was teamwork issues. Our group had a rocky start when we first started out with this project, but now, after working hard at being respectful towards each other, we learned a lot about each other, and now, we can get our work done while working well together.

During this project, we discovered many things about our work ethics, teamwork skills, responsibility, and other engage goals like using our learning communities, and being self-directed. This project was fun and a good learning opportunity for many reasons. Through this project we actually felt that we used our teamwork skills a lot more then we have earlier and before this year because we had a teamwork issue in the beginning, and we had to problem solve to over come it. We learned that our group depended on us to bring in our supplies so we had to be self-directed and responsible. Over all, we really liked this project and wish we could do it again so we would know exactly what to do, but also think that this was a great learning opportunity and are thankful for that. E2G4 - Sarena B, Prapti S, Alexa S