I starred at the hanging piece of art from above, thinking, I created this. I am a part of something beautiful and extraordinary unlike anything else. Though before this image appeared in my head, a smaller version (a prototype) of it had to be created. My group for the prototype wanted to doing something nobody else was doing with the idea for our chandelier, by this we created the shape of a star sense we were talking about the universe. Next, we decided to hang it by each individual star on each other and paint it with a timeline, starting from the big bang all the way to modern humans. Once we pitch our idea, the final decision for the shape of the chandelier was decided and we were put into ring groups based on what we had said we were interested in. I love history (history of man), so chose to be a part of the Modern Human ring. After being place into the groups we then planned out a timeline of historic events that occur, and did research in groups on these specific events. I thought it would be interesting to learn something new, so I research Ancient Egypt. Based on some of the image ideas we wanted to put into the art going on our ring, I did the back round on the inspiration for the images (such as: the pyramids and hieroglyphics). I learned a lot about the religion that was tied into both of these things and how it influenced different growing religions around the world many centuries later. During this process a lot of my group didn't really know what they wanted to do (what they were interested in learning about) and what they should research. So, I created a list of possible events/times in the history of man that people in my group could research, then I made a list of things to be researched for each one. This prompted my fellow group mates to have a starting point for their research. In this experience I learned a lot about my leadership skills as creating small tasks for members in my group a making sure people had something to do for the ring and knowing when to allow someone else the opportunity to do the same, so I could then learn from what their habits of leadership are. While we were working on the the construction of the ring I decided that painting Ancient Egypt wasn't really my thing, so I decided to take any interest in a different direction, which was ¨The 20s¨. For my section if the ring timeline I painted a poster of a musical in the 20s era, so I made it very colorful and vibrant. I also painted as an additional part to my section a picture of a boy with a sign asking for a job to pay for food, it was taken during the depression era so the colors looked dull and dark to give it more of a sad effect. I also thought a creative way to make our ring more eye catching was if we added lights to it in the images! So, we planned out where we wanted our hole for the lights then drilled them. It didn't really take me long to finish that so what I did after was I helped other people in my group paint their sections so we could finish on time. I felt that my personal growth was having to learn that I couldn't do a million tasks without getting stressed and following that was I had to worry about myself and what I needed to accomplish rather than worry what the rest of my group was doing. I learned this when we were doing the last of our painting and realized that one of the art pieces was on the wrong side on the ring board, so we needed all the help we could get. Though, we only got 3 of our other group-mates to help finish the last part and it made me irradiated because they were messing around, not helping. I soon came to realize I could only focus on myself and the work that I was assigned not if they weren't helping because that´s up to them. Some new skills that were a part of the project was collaboration and brainstorming. You really had to collaborate with the rest of your group do get everything done on time and efficiently because in order for everyone to be on the same page of what work needed to be done you had to really check in with the rest of your group constantly. Design thinking was also really important because you want your work to be unique and in order to do that you have to have multiple ideas not just one to start with. In all honestly, if we just would have started with one idea then we would have had a very ordinary ring but sense we used both brainstorming to collect ideas and collaboration to combined ideas our ring turned out like a one of a kind.
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