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=**__ Technology and Design __**=

**__Microsoft Course__**
We spent the first term learning how to fully utilize various Microsoft programs including Word, Office, Excel and Powerpoint. We had to create various documents and marketing for a fictional Ice cream company using Microsoft tools: Here's a Yearly Newsletter, excel spreadsheet and business cards from my fictional company "COWS"

**__Time__**
Our next unit was on time, and the different ways that people have used to measure it, this was more of a technology history unit, but we made our own clocks as our final assessments out of acrylic and an existing clock mechanism using a hot air gun.

Here is a powerpoint I did on the history of time:

For my final product (the clock), I made a drum set, because I wanted something personal and I am a drummer. I softened the acrylic using a heat gun, picked it up with my safety gloves and wrapped it around a tin can to make each drum. For the cymbals, I cut the acrylic into circles, heated it, placed it on the bottom of an aluminum can, and pushed down on the center with the sharp end of a pencil to get a bell like shape. Overall, I was pleased with the result, it looked clean and professional.

=__The Entrepreneurial Challenge:__= I was the winner of the Barbados Entrepreneurial Foundation's National 10$ challenge. The challenge was to try to get teenagers to start thinking about entrepreneurship as a serious career path. We were given 10$US to start a business, we were being assessed on our community mindedness, Profitability and ingenuity. For my business, I can up with with a few ideas like organic plantain chips (like a banana), custom T-shirt design and Surfboard Art but I chose to create a company that sold homemade, healthy dog treats. My motivation behind this was that in barbados, there are only a handful of dog biscuit brands, and they are all mass produced. The island has a huge canine population and ALOT of dog lovers. Not to mention that it is a popular retirement destination, and that old people love to pamper their pets. In short, there was a reasonable demand but no supply. Here is some of the work I handed in to the BEF: A summary of My Project The Form Required by the BEF Spreadsheet of my Costs and Profits:

I am also skilled with the I-movie and Photoshop platforms: During Interdisciplinary Week (click here for explanation) I made two video's. One documentary on the Olympics and a Summary of the entire week: media type="youtube" key="FCtwLTa_kGY" height="251" width="448"media type="youtube" key="mEbtShilfPA" height="251" width="448" Living in Barbados, I've done some surf video's. I did all the photography, film and editing (amazing kids) media type="youtube" key="-_6C7th8cbY" height="251" width="448"media type="youtube" key="r0_hk3i1ckU" height="251" width="448"

Here's some of the work I've done on photoshop: