sustainable design project

a brief overview of the project

The project for me was stressful and the “roll out” was more stressful,basically our teachers said we would be doing an interdisciplinary project on sustainability and I was like cool a project where I have complete creative freedom but to me this project was stupidly difficult to figure out but I constantly looked back to our field trip to twin buttes, one thing stuck out: the playground, I thought the project was cool at first but as it went along I felt increasingly stressed, through the course of the project my definition of sustainability has changed and what sustainable design means to me has changed too, so what does that term mean to me? To me it means a design that is capable of standing on its own and benefit the environment.

I didn't get interviews but a lot of people came up to me saying “I can't wait for your project,” and that was not helpful but it told me that other people liked my idea and were on board. But my first idea ended up nothing like my final design. My idea was to have a full on playground with a slide, swings, and other things you might find on a playground, I wanted this to happen more than anything else, but due to lack of time and funding I couldn't do what I wanted to do, instead I settled on just a tire swing, I got a tire and a can of paint and started painting, I painted this tire for three days and up went my stress level again, overall this project was just nonstop stress and to be one thousand percent honest I wanted to give up. Yes I wanted to give up on the project. I'm glad I didn't though. And I'm happy with the results I got.

since i was a loner on this project, I contributed everything you see in the picture above my project

my reflection

I hate group work, and while I didn't really improve from the last group project which was the rube Goldberg project to now because I didn't work in a group for this project but an area I felt like I did improve in was my perseverance, I pretty much gave up on the last project I did which was the happiness video project, and I wanted to give up on this project but I got up out of the pink chair in Sara's classroom, went outside, and got that tire swing done, one of the hardest parts for me was just getting this project off the ground, I tried starting a gofundme, I even got the number for durango parks and rec to ask what they do with old playground stuff, then my savior rolled in literally I with Sara's help got a tire and moved forward, a part I got really stuck on was sourcing playground equipment but I could not no matter how hard I tried, success for this project then vs. now are like comparing apples to oranges, success for this project then for me at least was just getting the project off the ground, I had so many doubts when going into this project, I thought this project was going to end with me giving up like every other project this year, but if I knew then what I know now that with enough dedication, perseverance, and hard and beautiful work you can accomplish anything within the laws of both nature and physics then I wouldn't have been as stressed which leads me to what success looks like for me now, success for me now is a lot different. I felt dedicated to my project, I felt a great amount of pride, and I felt an overwhelmingly high amount of stressed but I pushed through and got it done,

boy do I have a whole ton of advice for a future ninth grade osprey at this school and the first bit is TAKE CARE OF THIS SCHOOL, I was nauseated at the amount of trash I found around this school so nauseated that I had to come back inside the classroom, second: think big, end small. Most of the projects didn't end up being completed because they were too big and ambitious for their own good, I was required to end small due to lack of time and funding but I actually completed my tire swing and met the deadline. And finally work hard and don't give up. I was really close to just giving up but push through and get it done it may not be the outcome you were looking for but it's still an amazing result.