5th Grade

Capstone Interview Blog Post #4

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Earlier today (May 31) I had my interview with Laurel Lefebvre who is VP in investor relations. Laurel is responsible for all of the communication with the share holders. It was a very interesting experience because I learned a lot and got a bunch of good information. For example, my interview started out by me asking, “How long has the company been in business? I asked her about the customer loyalty program and the private label business. She ended the interview with the company’s plans and goals in the next few years.

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I never knew that I could learn so much from this interview.

 

Capstone Blog Post #2

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Just recently I finished creating my sub questions and created my main inquiry question. It has taken a while but I finally completed my sub questions and my main inquiry question. I am really proud of all of my questions but my favorite is. “Is Ulta a socially responsible company?” My topic is Ulta beauty. Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, is a chain of beauty stores in the United States. Ulta Beauty carries cosmetics and skincare brands, men’s and women’s fragrances, and haircare products. Each store is also equipped with a salon. The company is headquartered in Bolingbrook, Illinois.

Creating my sub questions was a tough process but eventually it got easier. My main inquiry question was very hard to come up with because I had a bunch of ideas but I couldn’t figure out the correct wording. My main question came to be, “How is Ulta beauty become successful as a retailer in makeup?”

Radical Rube Goldberg

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In class today my teacher assigned my class to write about the energy (Mechanical, potential and kinetic) for our rube Goldberg project.

 

A Rube Goldberg Machine: A simple task done in a complicated manner.

 

My Rube Goldberg team consists of Hope, Tessa and me. For this project, my team has to create a seven to ten step Rube Goldberg machine that in the end will complete a simple task.

 

So far, we have discovered and tried three different attempts on creating our Rube Goldberg machine. Our first attempt came out a little to much like a fantasy and it was not very realistic. For example, one of the steps was supposed to have a can send a basketball rolling and then knock a water bottle bottle off a table. It must include a lot of force that the can did not have.

 

Our second attempt had contained some good and not so good steps.This led us to our third design. We were extra careful choosing steps for this design. We took some of the steps from the first and second design and came up with the rest.

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Creativity With Cardboard

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20% time is a time that we express our ideas to make a class arcade. We got the idea to have twenty percent time from Google. We were inspired by Caine a boy from California who made some cool cardboard arcade games, he has a whole website he showed us that all of the cardboard and scraps that we just throw out or recycle can make one of the coolest arcades.

 

                                       This is what the Whack-A-Mole game looked like before we painted it.
Emily, Marissa, MJ and I are painting the Whack-A-Mole game White because even though it is not the most bright color it sort of pops out and makes the box colorful.
    These are the targets that you aim for in Whack-A-Mole for the target part is just drawn on paper with velcro but we always have to wear our google goggles for safety.But t
I am not really sure what he is working on but I think he is working on a prize but he is wearing his google glasses because if we are using any type of saw we have to wear our glasses to prevent us from getting hurt.

Million Dollar Genius

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Too Hot Too Handle

In class my teacher assigned the class to finish watching Too Hot To Handle on History Channel she asked us to tell write a post about what all of the people did in different ways…

All of the men in million dollar genius have a problem with something that they see in their everyday life. For example, Ron Foxcroft was a referee in basketball and he noticed the old  whistle was hard to hear, The pea would sometimes get stuck and The whistle would sometimes break. Another example is Jay Sorenson was a real estate agent and his office was right across the street from Starbucks and he saw everybody walking out of Starbucks  holding the cup with the tip of their fingers because it was too hot to handle. Lastly Todd Greene got inspired because he was a big fan of Michael Jordan and he thought to himself,”Why don’t I shave my head?” When he shaved his head he had one problem he barely could reach the very back of his head.

   The comparison that Ron Foxcroft, Jay Sorensen and Todd Greene have is they don’t sell enough of there product and feel they have to give up but they give themselves one more chance to be successful “Going though this process builds a desire to keep trying and trying even when people say you can’t do it.”says Jay Sorensen.They all felt that same way and were very successful Ron Foxcroft Sold over a million Fox 40 whistles  Jay Sorensen sold 700 million Java Jackets in a year and Todd Greene sold over 40 million dollars in sales.
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Wizard Of Oz Epilogue

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In class my teacher read us the book the Wizard of Oz. Nobody wanted it to end so my teacher told us to write how we wanted the story to end (Epilogue.)

One year later after Dorothy’s wonderful experience in Oz Dorothy laid on her bed wishing to see the Lion, Scarecrow, Tinman, Oz, Glinda, and the Munchkins. There was a little wind and Dorothy thought there was another tornado but as she was running to Auntie Em all of her fellow friends from Oz came hugging Dorothy with big excitement. How did you get here? Dorothy asked, On the wicked witch’s broom stick they all exclaimed! The lion ran up to Dorothy what is it what is it, Dorothy asked. It’s my crown i’m king of the forest just like you said. Congratulations said Dorothy.  What about you Scarecrow are you the ruler of oz? Yes Yes indeed I am! I even brought the Munchkins because they missed you so much. Tinman were you successful? Yes I brought the Winkies with me because they insisted on seeing you. Oh I am so glad you all came if only Glinda the good witch of the south was here. Dorothy heard a little voice oh yes I am oh yes I am it kept getting louder and louder until a bubble appeared right next to Dorothy a beautiful lady came walking out Glinda is it really you oh now it can’t get any better.