Week 7 kicked the design phase of the project into high gear, as each of the four teams considered their options and started to finalize their choices! Much time was spent exploring options for Video, Storytelling, Engineering, and Outreach, and the students engaged in a great deal of pre-testing in an attempt to learn what works and what doesn’t.
The excitement was palpable as the students planned their outreach activities, designed and printed a sample 3D torch for use in the videos, created a flyer and a brief teaser trailer to advertise the event, worked on the structure of the story in the video, tested different engineering materials, and pulled together as a class to test camera options by floating a GoPro camera under a bunch of Happy Birthday balloons on Landis Green — successfully keeping the camera flat and centered while floating 50 feet up in the air!