We are making a box. We needed to creat a story for it. Here is mine:

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The flashlight (from 6th grade tech) was very successful but Eli kept losing it. Luckily he found it each time but he didn’t want to take chances. He needed a place to put it. He decided to make a box for it. He was concerned that we wouldn’t know what it was for, so he decided that it should say “Eli’s Flashlight” on it. He wanted to make sure that the box was the right size so he measured the flashlight and it was 6.5 inches (16.51 cm) long, 2.25 inches (5.715 cm) wide and 2.5 inches (6.35 cm) high. He wants to add an extra an extra 1 inch to each side to be safe and an extra 2.5 inches so there is extra room because he wants it to be able to roll around a little. That is an extra 3.5 inches on each side.  Then the box dimensions will be 10 (25.4 cm) inches long, 5.75 (14.605 cm) inches wide and 6 (15.24 cm) inches tall. He wants it to be whole number so he changed the width to 6 (15.24 cm) inches.He thinks the best way to open and close it is to have hinges on one of the long sides. He also would like the top to be a beveled edge so it would look nice which would remind him of his flashlight, which he thinks also looks nice. He also wanted flocking so it would look good. Another thing he wants to do is add a dark varnish becuse he likes the way it looks.

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Today I finished cutting the cardboard model and assembled it with tape. Here is a picture of the completed model: