Life Replicated onto Paper
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As the year begins, senior projects are taken into effect. Various projects are surfacing, and most are helpful, while others are creative. Of the many senior projects, Siara Winans’ senior project is the most creative. Siara’s project involves drawing a picture you give her and making it beautiful. With any artist supplies including acrylic paint and charcoal, but excluding watercolor and oil-based paint, Siara will create a masterpiece for anyone who asks her. She will also redo the request if you do not like it. Even after her senior project, Siara thinks she will continue drawing photographs if people continue to ask her. With a stroke of her brush and a sketch of her pencil, Siara will create a beautifully mastered painting of various subjects, ranging from nature to people. Siara told me, “Humans are easier to draw. The most difficult things to draw are animals because of their fur.” Her favorite things to capture on paper are any various abstract objects such as flowers. The pictures range from a variety of colors or styles that can be photo-realistic, black and white, or any other color variations. As she draws, she will make sure every detail is precise to satisfy your standards. The features of her characters are to the exact detail. I have seen her first drawing, and I admit it is better than anything I could do. She always expresses herself to the best of her ability in her artwork. One of her finished drawings was Señorita Wichita’s baby. Señorita was simply ecstatic when she saw the finished product, and she hangs that picture in her classroom. Siara is the happiest when everyone appreciates her drawing and all her hard work. Señorita said, “The picture is artistic and amazing.” The details of the infant are accurate right down to his cute face. For inspiration, Señorita Wichita gave Siara the idea for photographic art. With this gift, Siara may one day open up her own business. The cost for these works of art is $3/hour and supplies, plus any donation fee you offer her. Any money she receives will be a donation to the Association of Student Artists. I might have to donate my money to her just to have a wonderful painting. If you have an appropriate picture, you should ask Siara Winans, and she will be happy to draw a painting for you. The results may surprise you.
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| Engineering class beginning new projects
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The Brodhead High School’s engineering class is starting fresh again with some new faces, new projects, and new ideas. They hope to engineer some great new projects. They started out this year learning about the five simple machines. They then had to design a project using all of these machines. The rules were the project had to use all of the simple machines, last longer then five seconds, be able to be started by the project before theirs and trigger the next project. They would all be set in a big chain reaction and the last project would raise a flag. The class worked in groups of two, making seven groups and therefore, seven projects. This had a few problems with it, including projects breaking down during the test run, not triggering the next project, and just plain not going at all. In the end though, it all worked out and turned out to be something really cool. The class then moved on to designing and building mousetrap-powered cars. These cars have to be powered only by the mousetrap but can use any of the five simple machines. In the end they will be tested in three different categories. One is a speed contest, which is a race to six feet. Another is an accuracy contest, which is the closest car to get to twelve feet. The last contest is a power contest, in which the contest is to see how many marbles in a basket they can pull to a distance of one foot. This contest will determine the grade that they will receive for the project and will also give bragging rights for the rest of the year. The group plans to do more projects in the months to come, including the balloon-powered cars and others. They hope to create some great projects in the future to hone their engineering skills and to help engineer things for the generation of tomorrow.
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