In-Depth Post #6: Reaping the Harvest

Progress Report Since last post, I have finished modelling my kendama, and now need to map its UVs, set up lights and a camera, and maybe animate it. I am very happy with my results, as they are smooth, and without artifacts or strange creases….

In-Depth Post #5: Tilling the Soil and More

Progress Report Since last blog post, I have completed Blender Guru’s chair modelling tutorial. In this tutorial, I learned many valuable pieces of information, such as how useful using a blueprint can be. Before, when working on my own project, the headphones, I did not…

Literature Circle Post

For my literature circle, my group and I read Motorcycles and Sweetgrass. We then created a theme park about the book to show our learning. In the project, I was in charge of making the shows/presentations. Firstly though, I helped my group brainstorm general ideas,…

In-Depth Post #4: Mentorship

Progress Report Since last post, I have worked more on my headphones project. After cleaning it up and making it better with my mentor last post, my goal has been to try and ad two joints so that the headphones can fold up like they…

In-Depth Post #3: The Context of Mentorship

Progress Report Since last post, I have completed my second project, which followed Grant Abitt’s tutorial series. This series was good, because in comparison to Blender Guru’s tutorials, it was a little bit more open and self guided. Grant Abbitt often gave the viewer (me)…

In-Depth Post #2: Mentorship

Progress Report I have completed my first project in Blender, an animated donut with sprinkles. This was a heavily guided project, and I followed along with this 16-part tutorial, made by Blender Guru. It was intentionally made for absolute beginners, so it didn’t skip out…

In-Depth Project Post #1: Getting Started

Blender For in-depth this year, I have chosen to learn how to use Blender. Blender is an open-source software 3D CG software used to create images or animations. It is a very complex program, that has many, many features and abilities for tasks such as…

Eminent Lack of Interview Reflection

To try and find someone to interview about Godtfred Kirk Christiansen for my eminent person project, I initially reached out to people who work for LEGO, starting with Godtfred’s grandson himself. As I didn’t know how to contact Chairman of the Board Thomas Kirk Kristiansen,…

Godtfred Kirk Christiansen Learning Center

My learning center for Night of the Notables this year is done in the form of a website like last year so that you can pick and choose to learn about the parts most interesting to you. Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, my eminent person this year,…

John C. Maxwell Nuggets of Wisdom

What I learned from John C. Maxwell Click on the hyperlinks throughout to learn more about specific people who teach leadership. Nugget 1. Early on John C. Maxwell professed the “Leadership Challenge” he faces, that makes it hard to multiply and benefit from good leaders….