Evaluation

During my DT project we had to go through all the stages of the Design Cycle which are Investigation, Design, Plan and Create. We were told to get into groups of 3, my group included of Harshnee, Faith and I.

Investigate Stage
In the Investigation stage we did a good job as we got a 5 out of 6. We could have done better by getting a 6 although not everyone in the group was doing something. So we were missing out on something which we assigned one of the group members to do. This made us loose marks because we did it in a rush and that made us hand it in late and not do a very good job in it.

Design Stage
In the Design Stage we did a very good job as we got full marks. This is because we all worked together to create a good mini-product of our Marine Vessel out of paper. This was product was going to look like out final product. In Design Stage everyone contributed as we each made our own design on Google SketchUp and we also wrote very good justifications to our Design. In this we all contributed in both making the Designs on SketchUp and also making our final design on the paper.

Plan Stage
In the Planning stage we did a good job also because we got 5 out of 6. We could have achieved full marks if we all contributed to the work and we put more tiome into doing the work. We didn’t answer one bit of the question because we didn’t understand what we had to do clearly. This caused us to achieve low marks in our work.

Create Stage
In the Create Stage everyone contributed to the boat as we were making our final product. We had to make our Hull with Plastic. Faith drew the designs on the Acrylic and Mr. Wafula and I cut the Acrylic in one lesson. Harshnee unfortunately was sick and couldn’t help us. Although the next lesson we were smoothening the sides and Harshnee helped us in doing that and also using the Line- Bender the bend the edges.
We haven’t completed our product due to the lack of time and lessons, but it seems like it is coming out good.