Sunday, October 21, 2018

BUILD A PRODUCT (HALLOWEEN THEME)


HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY DUBAI


My day started with visiting my University where I did my bachelors from. Heriot watt University Dubai. It always makes me feel happy and excited whenever I get to visit my Uni. I have some fond memories with this name “Heriot watt University Dubai”.

But, this time I was even more excited since one of my favorite Professor Miss. Marlene Muller had invited me as a blogger to blog about her third-year students. She has been one of the reasons why I have always loved HWUDC (Heriot watt University Dubai Campus) and keep going back to the campus (Most of my friends and I visit the Uni once in a while to greet the professors and faculty).

The idea behind the activity that particular morning was that Miss. Marlene would provide her students with resources to build a product for the upcoming Halloween but, they were given a budget of 800 dirhams to be able to purchase those products. And the most interesting part was after the students were done showcasing their products they needed to take a picture, upload it on Instagram with the hashtag #HWDubai all thanks to our creative professor. We had yarns, papers, scissors, glue, googly eyes, color pencils, markers and a couple of more resources. There were around 10-11 groups of 4-5 people in each group.



These mind sound like basic resources but, what the students created out of it was WOW! Some of the ideas were so useful and amazing. YOU CAN GO AND CHECK ON THE HASHTAG, you will be amazed. That’s what I learnt as well to not think that we need more resources to produce magic.
ITS YOUR IMAGINATION THAT CREATES MAGIC OUT OF NOTHING!

The purpose of this activity was to create awareness among the students as to how will they work with a budget while they purchased the products that would help them make a fancy and unusual product within 1 hour.

The first hour was for planning, then the leaders of each group had to stand in the queue to get the products and write about the products that they needed if later they changed or added a product they had to stand again in the long queue as well as get them replaced by other resources. THIS MADE ME REMEMBER OPPORTUNITY COST.

 The second half was how would the team of 4-5 build a product within a limited time, resources, no internet so they had to be as creative as possible, as unusual and their product needed to be useful as well.



 Students made Paper Lanterns, Spider webs, Spooky bookmarks, Wall hangings, pumpkin plates and much more. My personal favorite were the paper lanterns and Spooky bookmarks (Got some of them home and have been using them ever since then)



It is always great to be a part of activities where you learn so much. I mean there was a time when I was also in third year doing the same course as them. But, it was altogether different this time cause I was doing the exact opposite of what I did the last time. Needed to judge and decide who was the best team (Also got to keep some amazing creations of the students).

Altogether I got a chance to make use of my time Thursday Morning where I learnt how to make use of the limited resources to create a product as per a particular theme.
The day ended with a group picture.



Thankyou to Heriot watt University for having me over.

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