Month: May 2016

For my site visit I went to the Ba-Tampte factory. I knew I was going to the Ba-Tampte factory when I heard we had to have a site visit. It was really cool. But I had to wake up at 4:15 in the morning. That was the only way I could get to the factory. When I went there were 4 kittens hiding upstairs in the factory. I went to help find them. They were so cute. A few of the workers brought them home. I helped by taking the cucumbers in water out of the water with a net. It was very heavy if you took 10 cucumbers. There is a vehicle called a hiLO. The workers use it so they can bring items around. It can hold over 1000 pounds. My dad let me drive one by myself. We also went to get beverages for my family. On a hiLO the back two wheels move to turn. Not the front two wheels like a car. I had so much fun at the site visit!

 

“Come on dad I’m ready.” “You take so long to get ready.” “I’m ready” my dad says. “Finally.” I knew I was going to interview my dad when we had to do an interview. I was thinking of doing my grandpa also but I didn’t. We start our interview. It is going well. When we are done I look at the camera. The video already stopped. “How did it stop with no one touching it.” I watched the video. It only went up to 7 minutes and 18 seconds. I thought it would be longer. It turns out I didn’t have enough storage on my phone. I was so mad, My face was red. I started deleting a lot of things on my phone. Pictures and apps. I wanted to do it again but it was to late and I had to go to bed.  I had to do the interview the next day during my site visit. For the first 7 tries we couldn’t get passed question number two because my dad didn’t like his answers. We finally did it! We were supposed to have 10 to 12 questions. I had 20. It was because there was so much to ask and I could annoy my dad. The other kids had interviews that weren’t with there relative so they couldn’t annoy them.

Continue reading Capstone #3: Interview

My main inquiry question is: How does geography affect the success of Ba-Tampte? 

At first I had a different question. And then a different question. The question was how does Ba-Tampte compare with it’s chief rival and how can they raise the sales? But I didn’t like it. I said “I want a question that involves geography.” I wanted geography because I thought there could be a lot of good sub questions.

My sub questions are:

1. Where do the cucumbers come from?
2. is Which states sells Ba-Tampte’s products in stores?
3. Does the location of the cucumber affect the pickles taste?
4. How are Ba-Tampte pickles made?
5. How does a pickle become a kosher pickle?
6. Where was Ba-Tampte first sold? How did the location of that area affect the sales in the beginning?

When we were choosing our topic I couldn’t decide between two topics. The topics were hockey and Ba-Tampte. Ba-Tampte is my family’s pickle company. I would do hockey because I love hockey so much. It was so hard to choose. Thinking about each topic back and forth. what can I do for hockey and what can I do for Ba-Tampte. I decided to do Ba-Tampte because I have interest in learning about pickles. Its kind of crazy but I don’t like pickles and my family owns a pickle company. I think I will have a fun time working on capstone. I hope I don’t regret my decision.