To Name, or Not to Name.

Today, our extended lunch block period, was spent inside. Although it was slightly different than what we've been doing for the past few classes, it was just as busy! Today we began working on the final aspect of our project, essentially, getting our work noticed by the public. We

also had a very important decision to make about our piece.

We split into groups of four or five people, and each group picked a media in which we are going to tell the community about our work. Our first task was spreading the word to the people right here at the high school, so one group worked on posters to hang around the school, while another group worked on designs for our bulletin board. Next we had to think a little bigger, so we had a group working on an article that will be published on hhspress, and a group working on a movie that will be posted on the blog, possibly the school's website, and maybe even HCAM (the local tv station). Finally there was a group working on the plaque that is going to be placed on the site of the installation. These tasks may seem simple, but in addition to being creative and eye-catching, each has to successfully convey our purpose, process, and the overall meaning of the piece to the public.

As we worked we also had to vote on a very important issue. Whether or not to name our piece of art. After the initial vote that decided that it was going to have a name, some suggestions were brainstormed.

(This is Ms. K writing our ideas on the white board

so that we could tally a vote.)

All of the ideas were great! However, in the end, the winning idea was to name the piece "Prism". So now it has a name to put on the plaque, in the article, movie, and on posters.

All that's left to do is lay down some mulch, gravel and add the finishing touches! We're getting close to the end, and when we're done we're going to have to put our names on it somehow. That is where our logo, that is a compilation of class ideas, comes in! Thanks to Hannah we have an awesome logo, and today everyone signed it :)

(Signing the official "SMArt" logo)