Skin Science Experimenting

This afternoon we had far too much fun trying out some mixtures.

This group used a lot of avocado in their product - some people seem to be allergic to this

This group's creation smelt like insect repellent!

This group tried to crush their almonds

Olive oil being used carefully

Lucy brought along berries to use

Blake checking on the smell!

Lara brought along so many wonderful ingredients

S'Mart Tank Action

This morning two of our groups got into the exciting making part of their design process. Our Kitchen Herb Gardens are on sale and selling well. This group has been planting herbs into the boxes made by Kiara and her dad to fill orders.

Our S'Mart Folder group has begun cleaning a plastic billboard that will then be made into the folders to sell to our junior families.

It is exciting to see the hard work of these two groups coming to fruition.

How to make a flax fish

Bees in business

In the Plight of the Bees we are making beeswax wrap with the help of Lilly's mum. Here are some photos

Kitchen Herb Gardens are Selling!

This amazing group of young entrepreneurs have their first sales of their product. They have sourced herbs for free and are creating the wooden gardens themselves with the help of Kiara's dad. This is the fun part! Check out their great gardens, they are selling for $25. Their website is also live!

Our Trash Lab crew are in the midst of working out how they can work alongside our S'Mart Community to get their project up and running.

Our S'Mart Folders have got the go ahead to offer these to new entrants at school. This is hugely exciting! They are also communicating with Duffy Books to work out how they can contribute some of their future profits to this great cause. This group's website is also live now!

Our S'Mart Sheets website is finally live!

Project Management

This morning Alison Low returned to teach us about Project Management.

Last time Alison came in she reminded us to talk about requirements so that everyone is on the same page and working together as a team. "What does 'done' look like?"

In project planning it is normal to work backwards from the end goal. What is needed to enable your end goal to be achieved? What order will these need to be achieved in?

The initial idea is usually really fun, however, to get there in the end you will need to go through a lot of hard work!

Each group were challenged to use sticky notes to write down every action that needs to be taken on the way to their end goal. They then put these into an order. Each group decided on a project manager and people who would take on each of the necessary tasks.

What a huge learning experience this morning has been. Thank you so much to Alison for your wonderful expertise that you bring to S'Mart Tank.

Building Websites

This morning we were fortunate enough to have Mel Opie come in to teach us about website design. We were asked to think about who our audience might be and how we might design a website that will be attractive to these people. We were asked to think about colours and that the most important part of our website was placed on the top left, as well as thinking about simplicity.

We are designing our free websites via wix.com
Alice Vetcher, From Smart Worms, talked us through the basics of design and how to get going in this area.

This was such an exciting two hours, the groups are on their way to creating their unique websites. Check back here soon to see some.

A huge thank you to Mel and Alice for facilitating this learning.