Helping Hands (aka Clint's Minions)
This course is about helping ourselves and others. Students will be required to do 4 things.
- Design and make something that helps at home.
- Design and make something that helps the school.
- ‘Do shtuff’ (urban dictionary recognized word) that helps the school.
- Feel good about yourself as you help others.
At the start of every year people at school, particularly teachers, have had 2 months to come up with ideas and want small things done and/or made that will make life easier. We all tell Clint that it will make the school ‘a better place’ and Clint, the Property Manager, politely puts it on his list and says he will get around to it as soon as he can.
In this class we will work with Clint and you will be given a problem or issue around the school from ‘the list’ and you will be required to ‘fix it’. We have the workshop (I’m the new Hard Materials Teacher) and some really good machines at our disposal to make it happen once we come up with good designs and solutions.
Also we will be a timetabled group of helpers to move, shift and organise shtuff when needed. In between times you will work on a small individual project (Mothers Day Present?) that can be made in the workshop.
You will work individually, or in groups, to identify and explore issues, refine conceptual ideas and solve problems by helping others, modifying or making things.