This week, I will tell you about the main part that I would like to do with my career. When I am older, I would like to do logos, (for sides of cars, or just logos for companies,)  and be a mechanic. What I do is go into Adobe Photoshop, make something and add something to a picture. Then I go into Adobe Illustrator and vectorize that logo or image. I have already made money off stickers I made for a business. (I have made a sticker that I took Canada Dry turn into a skatepark sticker, but I don’t have pictures. ) I am now making a logo for an arcade. I am taking the side art of “Truck Stop” and taking it into “Arcade Stop”. I am then taking many other side art like “Twilight Zone, Radical, Skateball, and Medieval Madness” (Shown above.)  and making them into arcade logos. The logo on the right is the stock logo, and the picture on the left is how far I got. Why do you vectorize it though? When you take an image off the internet and make it really big, it gets all distorted and blurry. When you vectorize it in Adobe Illustrator, you can take that image and make it bigger and it won’t get distorted and blurry. When you look at the different truck stops, you can see that the STOP is different. That is the vectorized part. You can also see that the colors are brighter and not as dark. That is the purpose of Abobe Illustrator. This is what I want to do later in life.

That is it for my blog today.

This past 2 weeks in science class, we have been making balloon repelled cars. I have failed many times with it. The balloon was the part that failed the most, but I did not give up and found a way to make it move without the ballon failing. Our cars were supposed to travel 10 feet to get 100% in that section of the grade. As I tested my car, it started to fail after traveling 10-15 feet during my 5 tests. My car started to fail and only fail. I worked on it day and night. When the day came to test it for a grade, my car went 8 out of the 10 feet. I got a 96% with my hard work. My wheels and axles kept bending and failing too. I tweaked with them and got them to work. My ballon got teared, so I got a new one and found out how it teared. The cardboard roll had torn the balloon on 2 edges. I got tape and taped the sharp edges. I then started to leak air. My cardboard tube has caved in on the top where the balloon is. I used tape and took off the balloon to fix it. I found out that the ballon was too tight on the tube. I knew now that the only way to fix it was to have it off until test day. I put the balloon on when it was my turn, and it went 8 feet. The next day, was a fun day. we raced to see how far our cars could go. I decided to go and the car got a leak. As other people went, I repaired. I put the balloon on and put 2 layers of tape on it. I also squeezed the tube to make it thinner. When I was ready, my car ended up going about 8 feet anyway. I still had fun making and testing my car. One thing that I learned was that the different ways that air resistance acted on my car.That is it for my failures of ballon car. That is also it of this weeks blog.

Another thing we have in Project Wonder is that we have an inspiration wall. On the wall, there are many sticky notes with inspiring quotes on them. Many quotes are from famous people. All of these quotes have something inspiring on them. Many different people found different things. One that I wrote was, “If you tried as hard as you could, and failed. Does it mean I wasted my time? Of course not!” I could not find who did it but it is my favorite quote. To me, it is very inspirational and will never get old.

That is it for my blog today.

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