Boronia West - 2012 Gold Medallers

1. -Daniel The -Tarshi
-Monique
-Sasha
- Gold Medalers -Taylor
Stacey -Mathew
- -
Aastha Charlotte
-Julez

2. Profiles

3. Daniel Blee
Name: Daniel
Age:12
Strengths I can offer the
team: Responsibility, Maths
Skills and Good Engineering
Canstruction Goal: To learn
the ways of engineering

4. Sasha Elmer
Name: Sasha Elmer
Age: 12
Strengths I can offer the
team: Math skills and Team
work.
Canstruction goal: To be
more helpful and to share
all of the jobs around so
that everybody gets a shot
at everything.

5. Stacey Davidson
Name: Stacey Davidson
Age: 11
Strengths I can offer the
team: Responsibility and
Leadership
Canstruction goal: To be
more creative and work well
with a lot of people

6. Aastha Agarwal
Name: Aastha Agarwal
Age: 12
Strengths I can offer the
team: Encouragement,
team work and friendliness
Canstruction goal: be more
helpful and work well with
my class mates

7. Julez Phan
Name: Julez Phan
Age: 12
Strengths I can offer to the
team: Teamwork, Maths
Skills, and Encouragement
Canstruction Goal: To be
more cooperative with new
people

8. Tarshi Irshad
Name: Tarshi Irshad
Age: 11
Strengths I can offer the
team: Helpfulness and
Teamwork
Canstruction goal: To get
better at helping others

9. Monique Gallani
Name: Monique Gallani
Age: 11
Strengths I can offer the
team: Teamwork
My Canstruction Goal: To
work on my teamwork skills
with new people.

10. Taylor Virgona
Name: Taylor Virgona
Age: 10
Strengths I can offer the
team: maths skills and
encouragement
Canstruction goal: To be
more helpful.

11. Mathew Maxwell
Name: Mathew Maxwell
Age: 11
Strengths I can offer the
team: maths skills and
teamwork
Canstruction Goal: To work
better with other people

12. Charlotte Eagle
Name: Charlotte Eagle
Age: 11
Strengths I can offer the
team: Teamwork,
Happiness
Canstruction Goal: To be
able to become more
helpful when building.

13. History

14. History of Medals
The ancient Greeks, whose Olympiads can be traced
back to 776 B.C., didn't give out medals but gave out
olive wreaths upon their victors. The medal tradition
began with the first modern Olympic Games in 1896,
where winners got silver, seconds got bronze and third
place got zip. In the intervening 112 years, the coveted
awards have been rectangular, ridged, doughnut-like,
gilded and for the 1972 Sapporo Winter Games, shaped
like a blob. At the 1900 Paris Games, some events
forwent medals in favour of prizes: one pole-vault
runner-up won an umbrella.

15. The Process

16. Brainstorming
The ideas we had for Canstruction are:
• The 3 Medals
• The Olympic Rings
• The Podium
• The Mascots
• Big Ben
• The Queen’s Crown
• Buckingham Palace

17. Preparation
First of all, the teachers had
organised the 2 teams. We had
heaps of meetings to work
everything out. We organised all
the fundraisers to get enough
cans or money to buy cans. The
fundraisers we had include Free
Dress Days, Book Week… All the
money was used to buy cans. We
had to figure out how many cans
we would need and the diameter.
We had to plan a lot of things to
make it all run smoothly. We
played around with the cans and
the plywood to figure everything
out.

18. The Maths of our
Design
We figured out the diameter and how
many cans we would need for each
medal and all 3 medals together. The
diameter of one medal was 67cm. For
each medal, the bottom layer and the
next 2 consisted of 26 cans on each row.
The top row had 70 cans on top of the
plywood. Altogether we used 444 cans to
create the 3 medals.

19. Building
The teachers had sorted out the
cans into different piles so we
would know which can to use in
which place. We traced around the
plywood to make 3 circles so we
know where to place the cans. We
made the silver medal first
because it was on the side. We
decided that we would sticky tape
3 cans together vertically and
place it on the inside of the outline
of the circle. Then we placed the
plywood on top of the ring and
placed the cans all over the
plywood. We did this with the gold
and bronze medal as well. We all
had a go at building each. We
think the medals look really good.

20. The Roles
The roles were:
• 1 sticky-tape person: The sticky-tape
person would have to sticky tape
cans together.
• 2 or 3 builders: The builders would
have to build the medals.
• 1 Google SketchUp person: The
Google SketchUp person would make
a Google SketchUp of the medals.
• 1 photographer: The photographer
would have to take photos of each
can being placed.

21. Thanks To…
The Gold Medalers would like to
thank:
• The 2 teachers, Miss Dawson
and Miss Harris, for organising
everything and for taking time
out of their day to go buy 250
cans for us
• The whole school for supplying
cans and being supportive to
the teams
• The other team, The Archos, for
being supportive during our
building sessions