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T Workshop: Review of the Participants
Tsu-Chia Liang School of Nutrition and Health Sciences Taipei Medical University
Sketch Up is a super software, because it allows us to create, change and add new things to our ideas; it makes us feel like we’re creating a world of our own. We were all trapped in a frenzy of work, but we finally finished with the plan layout and it made us feel good. Sketch Up file is the previous step of the water cutter graphic file. It was such a pity that we were not able to actually operate on it due to job allocation and timing. The theme we discussed in the first week was found with some obstacles after testing at home, so we had to find the solution with other teammates on Facebook and decided to use pulley. When we returned to the workshop in the morning on second Saturday, we found out that there was no pulley that we could use. In addition, other teammates decided to change the original plan, so we were late comparing to other teams. The timing turned to be very tight so we distributed works, I was in charge of making power points, revise the original design drawings, making photo records and looking for the drawer handles; while others drew new concept design drawings and used computer software to cut the materials. We did not make it in time to finish the product before the final judging; we only presented orally with power points. However, we still wanted to produce the actual product. After teachers’ approval, he led us with the enthusiastic TAs to work until pass 11 pm to finally produce the product. Since we revised the design drawings, for catching up with the time, we did not calculate the positions of the holes precisely and that made us need to drill all the keyways again with electric drill. Also, because we did not notice the deviation on the left and right of the drawers, that the drawers could not fit into the wardrobe. We needed to cut again for the suitable length but we miscalculated the height of the tenon. Therefore, when the cutting was done, we still could not get it to work and had to declare failure. We asked the teachers that it looked so simple but why was it with so many twists and turns? 53