Recycling tip of the week

 Please put all lids in the red bin including ice cream lids NOT IN THE RECYCLING BIN

Building a Website

Today we welcomed Mel Opie to S'Mart Tank to teach us how to build a website.

• Today there are a number of free apps that allow people to put together a website without needing to write the code
• What do you want to achieve with your website?
• "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." Steve Jobs
• We need to be really clear on what we are selling, who we would want to sell it to, why we are different
• Don't forget that we are kids selling to an adult market, that is a really great point of difference!
• We need to include a small blurb about S'Mart Tank to include in each site (Ms Saxon will compose this)
• What is your domain name? How does this read - be careful!!  www.childrenswear.com :-)
• Simple language that is spelt correctly!
• Branding - how will you make your product stand out? Colour, font, logo, language
• We are going to use www.wix.com

This is such exciting learning! Thanks to Mel for her awesome input. We can't wait to see the websites up and running.

Getting Real!

Today in S'Mart Tank we began to get real!!

We have our six groups -

Plastics	Recycled Paper	Coffee Cups	My Board Mate	Scooter Mudguards	Portable Worm Farm
Ida	Tristan	Ashley	Nerhys	Abby	Alice
Jacob	Sam R	Jonah	Payo	Sam	Maya
Cruz	Ben	Sophie	Noah	Oliver	Jack
Sol	Amy W	Sofia	Lace	Hugh	Rowan

Today we made timelines and thought about who was doing what and what we needed to do in the next ten weeks to get our products out there! How exciting!

Ms Saxon was soooo proud!

Last week we made Ms Saxon and our mentors so proud! We pitched out ideas like true professionals.

After much deliberation the following products were selected to be taken further:

• Scooter mudguards
• Boardmate
• Automatic worm farm
• Paper making
• Ida and Jacob's plastic
• Ashley's cups

Ida	Tristan	Ashley	Nerhys	Abby	Alice
Jacob	Sam R	Jonah	Payo	Sam	Maya
Cruz	Ben	Sophie	Noah	Oliver	Jack
Sol	Amy W	Sofia	Lace	Hugh	Rowan
		Amy S

Today we began thinking about the strengths in our team and the jobs that we will now need to undertake.

• Web design
• Marketing manager
• Head of operations
• Money master
• Writer
• Office manager (Order tracking)
• The face
• Designer
• Engineer
• Project manager
• Artist
• Graphic designer
• Builder, architect
• Salesman
• Quality control

We have also contacted our amazing mentors to discuss where to next.

What this space, we are amazing!

Mock Presentations

This morning our S'Mart Tankers ran through their presentation that they will give to our mentors next Tuesday. This was a little scary for some as they realised that they weren't quite ready! It was super valuable to practise so that we are ready for next week. How exciting!!

My Board Mate

Making Paper

Swimming or Not???

Want to check the water quality of our rivers and beaches for going swimming. Check them out on this web site. www.lawa.org.nz/explore-data/swimming

            

Heathcote River in flood. Not a good time for a swim!!!!

Order of Presentations

Hugh & Jonah
Ida & Jacob
Tristan
Cruz, Ben, Payo, Jack & Sol
Layce
Sophie & Sofia
Sam & Noah
Ashley
Nerhys
Alice
Rowan
Amy W
Amy S & Maya
Abby, Sam & Oliver