Week 10

This week was different than the others, we all worked on MasterCam QuickPart and learned some new things about it and how it works.It's amazing how it can put in different designs on your project. On Tuesday I worked on making curves on my piece of wood so it doesn't have the sharp corners. After i did the curves I spray painted it red and on Thursday I actually got to get started in my project. I put my uncle's name and birthday and day he passed away on it. My project didn't come out as planned the letters were to small that you couldn't really see the detail of the font. What I plan on doing today is getting a bigger piece of wood and improving it. So far this has been a great week!

The essential question of the week is "Why is made in America" so important these days?

These days, “Made in America” isn’t as clear-cut as it used to be. Most Americans are aware that products branded with American labels may be made in overseas factories or assembled here with parts made overseas. Three-fourths of consumers say being manufactured in the U.S. is crucial for them to consider it “made in America.” Half say being made by an American company or having parts manufactured in the U.S. is what matters. Only one-fourth cared whether a product was designed by an American.

Although buying American matters to all age groups, older respondents (age 48-plus) were the most likely to say it’s important to do so. Women also placed greater importance on buying American than men do. Perhaps surprisingly, three-fourths of both Republicans and Democrats say buying American is important, compared to just 60 percent of independents.

Week 8&9

In week 8 we shared our class with an English class. When the English class came to ours we made planter boxes. All of us worked together to finish the boxes. The second day they came to our class they did something from their English class we read pieces of a book and we explained what we thought was going on in that piece. I never really noticed how much information came be in a couple sentences. I'm really happy that we got to spend time with a couple of other students so we can teach them what we know and they came to us showing what they know.

In week 9 we worked on our projects on Monday and Tuesday. My group and I have been done with our projects so we are just making our own stickers to keep us busy. This week we were assigned to fill out a performance evaluation self week self review and our teacher will call us up to go over our grade and what we need to work on to improve ourselves. I think that this year I have tried my hardest but I do have somethings to work on. The question of the week was what are the top three job qualities you need. The three qualities you need is to be on time, show up, and have a positive attitude.

Week Seven

This week we switched it up a little we did our project work Monday and Tuesday and worked in AutoCAD Wednesday and Thursday. With our project we are so close to being done we added a new quote to the window that says caution duct tape may fail. Our window is coming out amazing i didn't think that it would turn out to look like that. In AutoCAD we did a die stamp challenge, the die challenge didn't even compare to the ones we've done before. It was a lot more difficult than it looked we had to use the tools we learned and we were kind of on our own.

This weeks essential question was, what is the minimum wage debate? Minimum wage is the lowest wage by law or a special agreement. President Obama is trying to raise minimum wage.

Week Six

This week we did a small part challenge, we had to try to make a small part the same as the way it showed us in the picture. The part looked really easy to do but when you have to do every step to make it look the same it's really difficult and for as small as the tool was there were a lot of steps to do to get to the end. I finished my tool but it looked way shorter than the original. Also this week we have been working on our projects and my group and I decided to make a full border around the window and put a bunch of tools around the window. We made our tools and hopefully we can finish by today.

This weeks question was about Isis, Isis is also known as the Islamic State are a terrorist organization. The U.S. is dropping bombs in Isis because of the beheading's of the three people.

Week Five

This week we used AutoCAD, we drew a framed wall we had to go through a couple of steps that were kind of difficult, but I got through most steps and I must have had done something wrong because as I was drawing the wall it didn't look the way it needed to look like, but for the most part it was pretty easy to do. Also, this week were working on our projects were working on making stickers for a window, what we chose to put on the window is tools and in the middle of all the tools we are going to put "Our Work Is Beautiful" i'm really excited to this project because it's really fun learning all the new things you can do with the machine.

Week Four

This week we were on Auto Cad on Monday and Tuesday. On Monday we used the trim tool, dimensions and on Tuesday we used the Object Snap tool. I didn't get the trim tool or dimensions to work because my planter box wasn't done. On Tuesday when we used the object snap, we did an object snap challenge, the challenge was to do the the same exact shape that was on one side and we had to use midpoint and endpoint and more. On Wednesday and Thursday we worked on our projects my project i'm doing is the vinyl cutter, my group and I made stickers for suicide prevention week for next week. Last we talked about taxes, taxes are workers income and business and costs that go up on services and transactions.

Week 3

This week we did a little more in Auto Cad, we actually drew a planter box. My first try wasn't really successful. Also my second try I got a little farther but I didn't finish it all. We also learned some safety tips about the miter saw, we saw how the saw works, and how it can turn to different angles. Last, we talked about unions and how unions first started and how unions work now.