Pingo-uck Project Blog

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Summary:
       Met the Pingo-uck. The Pingo-uck is a bird that has pieces from flamingos, flies, peacocks, and parrots. Lets start from head to toe. The head has umbrella like feathers to prevent its body from getting wet. Its eyes are multipfactited to be able to see all around its surroundings.  Then its body is covered in color on the one side to attract mates and the other side grey like rocks to camouflage. It has a wide tail that acts like a flotation device in the water. Then depending on the gender its feet will be webbed for catching fish ( female) or clawed for catching deer mice ( male). Evolution may sound random but this project is supposed to simulate how organisms are so well thought through. For example all the things I listed out to you right now have a purpose and could be added to a future organism that could like a Pingo-uck through Natural Selection. If your dreams of an organism don;t include magic or something that doesn't already exist your ideas may become a reality.

Backward Looking: In what ways have you gotten better at this kind of work?:
This project was definitely a creative curve for me. First just the creation of such a unique creature was something I haven't done before. Especially making a creature fit for an environment that wasn't this overpowered beast. Making something you could actually see in a part of the world is a really special thing and it takes a different level of creativity. Another things this project pushed me creatively to do was draw. Once we knew how this organism would act in the environment I had to use what I imagined its day to day life being like onto paper. Putting the image in your brain onto paper is bringing a world to life. The Pingo-uck was mashing science and imagination and it was awesome!!!

Inward Looking:What was especially satisfying to you about either the process or the finished product? : In the end I found it really satisfying that out of all the groups we were really the only one to really use a lot of hand drawn imagery. Other people just got images from the internet to show in general what they were trying to describe. With hand draw images we could be very exact on what we wanted the view to feel and think when they looked at the image. We could control the image it left in their head and didn't leave them guessing on what we were intending.

Outward Looking: What was especially satisfying to you about either the process or the finished product?: If I were a teacher commenting on our work I would comment on two things. One since the images added a sort of charm to our presentation some slides could have really used more than one image. Since it is somewhat a leverage for us we could have definitely made sure there was more of that to really give a closer and clearer idea of the Pingo-uck.Plus we could have really used practice on our presentation. At some points it became rather repetitive and we could have possibly done without some lines.

Forward Looking: What's one goal you would like to set for yourself for next time?: 
Next time I do a project I really hope to bring justice to my creativity. My presentation was fair and I think the slides looked really good. Next time I will make sure the script is more solid and that it matches with the amount of real effort we put in the project. It didn't quite reflect how much thought went into the animal. My goal will to be show my projects worth and create an engaging presentation.