This year during innovation day we had to make a virtual reality world about an animal that was facing a problem and design a structure that would help them. When we finished we had to present a “pitch” to three different judges which would then determine who gets first, second, and third. My partner was Ariel and we designed a nesting ground and a nest protector for the midland painted turtle. They face loss of nesting habitat and predation of the eggs. We think we have helped address this problem.

Here is a picture of Ariel and my project on Innovation day.

After innovation day Mr. Ray made us write this, a reflection. In this reflection I will explain what I thought I did well in this project. Before I started this project I was very nervous about it. I did not know what to do and how to do it. Looking back, I wished I read through all the explanations and did the research more effectively. Even though I started off on the wrong foot I think that we did the rest of our project very well. I am proud of how it came out in the end. Moving forward from this project I will be sure to work hard from the start and not stop till I am done. I think that some things that made my project glow was the nest protector that I built for my project and the sign that I carved. During this project I learned some valuable skills, some of them are; not saving everything for the last minute and research always comes first. All in all I think that this project has helped me learn how important it is to work hard and not get distracted.

Here is a picture of me building the nest protector.

Innovation day is my favorite project of the whole year at OJCS. I learned alot and perhaps best of all we got second place!