7th Grade Design creates simple circuits!

Our 7th grade Design class are learning how to create a simple circuit to power two LED lights with a coin cell battery. They designed their own ornaments to decorate our Christmas Tree!

Cadet Geng's Minion ornament

Cadet Sun's robot ornament

Cadet Thermidor's finished Silver Sonic ornament

Cadet Pena's finished Sonic ornament

Cadet Zelenger's finished tank ornament

Updated 11/8 7th Grade creates parabolic curves

Our 7th grade Design class are learning how to create parabolic curves. They are using math to create the structure and will use needle and thread to complete their designs.

Cadets began by tracing their foam square on a paper. Using a ruler, they drew straight lines from corner to corner, horizontally, and vertically through the center. 

Cadets started at the center and created five marks at 1/2 inch along each line. Every other line, they labeled the marks 1-5 radiating from the center. The alternating lines were marked 5-1 from the center.

Cadet Sun and Cadet Zelenger thread needles and begin sewing straight lines to connect numbers from one line to the next.

Cadet Geng thoughtfully threads his needle

Cadet Thermidor prepares the green thread to connect all the "2's"

Cadet Pena begins threading yellow for his fourth lines.

Work in progress...

updated 1/4 7th Grade paper shoe design

Our 7th Graders are working on designing a paper shoe!

Cadet Thermidor describes his plan for creating the Nike shoe out of blue paper

Cadet Thermidor's final paper shoe design

Cadet Pena begins cutting his final shoe out of white paper

He adds tabs to fold under the sole of the shoe

Cadet Pena's final paper shoe design

Cadet Sun begins assembling his final paper shoe

Cadet Sun studies his own shoe for the laces

Cadet Sun's final paper shoe

Cadet Thermidor's finished shoe

Cadet Zelenger's final shoe

Cadet Geng's final shoe

Cadet Pena's completed shoe and display

7th Grade Linear Perspective

Our 7th grade Design class learned how Renaissance artists used mathematics and observation to create realistic 3D landscapes on a 2D surface. They learned how to create a horizon line, vanishing point, vertical, horizontal, and orthogonal lines. Using these techniques, our cadets have been creating either rooms or cities using linear perspective.

Cadet Sun begins coloring his city using colored pencil

Cadet Sun's completed cityscape

Cadet Zelenger creates a picture frame inside a bedroom

Cadet Zelenger's final drawing

Cadet Pena begins coloring in a bedspread

Cadet Pena's finished bedroom

Cadet Geng uses a ruler to create perfectly horizontal lines at the top of his buildings

Cadet Thermidor contemplates his next move after adding Spongebob to the TV

Cadet Thermidor's finished room

7th Design Typography project

7th Grade Design students are finishing up their typography projects. Their challenge was to design font that visually represented an adjective to describe them. They learned how designers use Elements of Art such as shape, line, color, and texture when creating font to convey a message in addition to the written words. 

Cadet Geng created this work by using a transfer technique. He used watercolor and oil pastel to depict his love of money

Cadet Zelenger created this work using colored pencil based on his love for winter and skiing

Cadet Pena created this work with marker to represent his love of street art and music

Cadet Sun's mixed media drawing includes animal print

Cadet Thermidor created this colored pencil drawing using a grid-drawing technique with font based on The Flash

Cadet Geng creates font using an oil pastel transfer method based on his love for money

Cadet Geng adds a watercolor wash to his oil pastel paper.