WEEK 8

This week was quite a busy week and had a lot of things accomplished. For CSI class, we had a quick update with Mr Edwin on the progress for each group. One of the biggest achievement we had this week was getting a donation of 1500rm from the company that our classmate Bryan did his internship in, which we were very happy because it will be used for the furniture group, giving us a total of 2590rm. However we received the plan from the other group in the CSI class and it wasn't done properly so therefore we are still asking for the new FLP. We have placed the box last week and went to check this week and we have received books already from the box in SLC! However it is still not enough and not many students are looking at the poster, therefore we have decided that the books team should print out brochures and hand out to people infront of SLC, to student and staffs.

As project manager, we had to type up the updates for this week.

For the stationary team, they have collected a lot of oil pastel crayons but not in a good condition, therefore we decided as a class that we should mould the crayon and make new crayons out of it, into a new shape. I knew this was quite a lot to do for the stationary team, Caitlin and Risca, and therefore I decided to help the team.

It was quite a long process. Firstly the stationary team had to go and buy the equipment that we need to mould it. The first step they needed to do was to categorise the colours, resulting in having around 18 different colours.

Before melting the crayons, there were other things we had to do first for the preparation of the melting. We had to break the crayons into smaller pieces first so it is easier to melt. Me and Caitlin were the one mostly doing this part.

Risca and Caitlin took turns melting the crayons and were in charge of the melting. The whole process involved trial and error, firstly trying to melt the crayons in the microwave, which worked but had a lot of problems such as the container in where we put the crayon in kept melting and spilling everywhere, and also took quite a lot of time to melt. We then tried using this metal cup and putting in there and microwaving it which also didn't work. We moved on to melting it onto the stove using a metal bowl, which thankfully worked and melted the crayons quite fast ! However we found problems that we realised forgot to think about, such as how hard it was to actually take the crayons off the bowl and replace it with the other colours. We then decided to put aluminium foil onto the bowl and so that the crayons melt on the foil and we can easily just replace the foil. This saved us a lot of time which we were thankful about. Risca and Caitlin took turns melting the crayons and were in charge of this part.

After it is melted, we poured it into this ice box that had shapes of the alphabet and snowflakes and let it harden in the fridge for a while. Thankfully, it didn't take that long to harden and therefore the process was quite fast.

After it was hardened, we took the pieces out of the ice box and my other job was to cut the edges of the crayon so that it looks neater and looks more like the shape that it is suppose to be. I then put the crayons into separate containers based on the colour.

                         

 

Our other project manager Darren helped take photos for us and also made the labels to stick onto the container.

Overall, it was quite a fun small DIY project to do, with a lot of difficulties and challenges that we faced but I think the crayons turned out quite nice, even though some were a little bit messy and able to see other colours on crayons too but hopefully the kids will like it still!

 






Me and Darren, the project manager, also had a quick meeting on Thursday and Friday again with the group leaders. By the end of the week, the paint will have been collected already from Kansai Sunway branch and the crayons are already done.

WEEK 7

This week, we had another short presentation, but just infront of our class only, to update Mr Edwin on what we have achieved since last week. For furniture group, we did not really do much since we still waiting for companies to get back to us still and we have gone ahead and talked to IKEA for sponsors but still waiting on their reply. The stationary team had made a tremendous improvement since last week and we have collected a lot more stationaries that was given from churches.

We have decided that the poster, which was originally supposed to be for book donation, to combine with the stationary team so we edited the poster so that the information changed to donating books and stationery together since we only allowed one spot to put the poster in SLC, therefore only having one poster. We have gone and print the poster and Zeeleng has brough in one box from her home to use the box for the donation infront of SLC. Project managers have gone and bought another box for the donation, used by the money that we have collected already.

We have placed the posters on top of the box and have placed the boxes and the poster in SLC already, hopefully getting books and stationary starting next week by other students.

As the project manager, I have made notes on the presentation and wrote down on the things that we need to change or do for the upcoming weeks, our next plan.

 

WEEK 6

After last week's presentation, we realised that we needed to get more sponsorship still so I decided to go ahead and email more furniture suppliers and sending the sponsorship letter to them, waiting for their reply and hopefully to get more sponsors.

This week class, we just had a quick tutorial with Mr Edwin on updating him and the class on what we have updated so far and achieved since last week. For the book group, Zeeleng made a poster for books since we have decided to put up a spot in SLC to put up a poster and also to put the box in, for other students to donate books or stationary. During this class, we talked about the poster, changed some of the information and discussed the poster design with the whole class. Other things we had to do was just for each group to update me and Darren, the project managers, in what each group has done so far. We typed up a word document for each group, stating what they have achieved and what they will do next. We have collected a lot more books from family and friends this week and got more stationery from one of our friends, working in a pharmaceutical company.

 

 

WEEK 4

This week, we had a presentation for the updates for the project based on each team, with the whole CSI class, which means including semester 3 and 4. As the project manager and the leader for the sponsorship team, me and Darren had to make sure that the presentation was prepared by creating a powerpoint slides for all the team (finance, stationary, books, furniture, paint) in the sponsorship team to put their information in. Whilst the presentation, I also had to take notes down for the rest of the groups from the feedback of our lecturers. The presentation was based on what we have done so far and what we are planning to do next.

As of this week, we have collected several number of books and stationaries already, already received 1500 sponsors for furniture, 5 bean bags received already and have confirmed a sponsor for paint. Overall, I think the progress that we have done for the sponsorship team is good but we still need to collect more books and stationery and get more sponsors for furniture.

After our presentation was done, we also had to listen to the other presentations from the other groups in the semester 3 and 4. From their presentation, we know now what colour scheme the library will have, what type of murals and wall designs will be included in the space, what type of learning games will have that will be placed on the walls. Having us present infront of each other with the rest of the CSI group actually really helped us because we now know what the design of the space will be so it is easier for us, furniture team, to find and purchase furniture which suits the design of the space.