Grace Gundlach

 Welcome back to my second blog of the second Genius Hour! This week was a challenge as I had other things I had to do as well such as schoolwork and at home chores! With the weather being as awful as it was it gave me an opportunity to sit down and focus on my STEAM project. This week I was looking through all the possible activities I could include in this event which would benefit the kids to a certain extent. However, most of the activities usually have summer weather where the kids can do these things outside. Yet, I have came to a conclusion as I've talked to fellow classmates or younger kids and their moods are always down in the winter. I figured this would be another good reason to do this activity to hopefully boost the kids energy and get them excited for something.      Also, I am a little bit ahead with my action plan as I have already talked to my club leader about putting me on the agenda for the next meeting. The only downfall is that our next meeting...

   Hello! Welcome to my first blog of my second Genius Hour! I am doing a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, math) activity plan to help teach the younger 4H kids involved in some fun activities. I remember when I was younger growing up I participated in this, but haven't seen it done again in quite some time which makes me sad because I know how much I enjoyed it. According to my action plan I was to get the STEAM activity book from Tara Andrews who works at the county extension office and that has been achieved! Yet, it took a little while to get it because I kept forgetting... So in the meantime I would go online and look up some activities to get knowledge towards what I am going to be teaching. There are many activities listed that I still remembered and many new ones in which I'm very excited to teach the younger kids. I'm very excited to see where this activity will go:) Next week I will be making a list of activities to be done, and make sure they benefit...

 Hello and welcome back to more blogs! It is time for yet another Genius Hour and I am so very excited. Seeing everyone's projects in the presentations showed me how these projects really can vary, and my last project was very unique as well. For this Genius Hour I will be doing a 4h community based project with the younger kids involved in 4h by doing a STEAM activity event. STEAM stands for science, technology, engineering, arts, and math which are the basic skills everyone has in their life but they attribute to helping kids learn more in a fun way. This next project will not only require efforts made by me but from my fellow 4h people as well, by having them help me in the end. I remember as a kid doing these activities and I loved them so why not spread this around now that I am able to. I will be getting help from Tara Andrews who used to lead this and get some advice from her for how to make this happen. In my first Genius Hour I got patience out of it so hopefully controlli...

 Welcome back to the final week of blogs for Genius Hour! This project has been so much fun so far, and I am planning to continue doing beading even after this genius hour is done. This week I made variety of necklaces for Harley Meged to take with her to the NFR! I have made the necklaces called "THE HARLEY" throughout this week, and they are all ready to go to Texas and hang with the big dogs. This week was yet again fairly easy because I have been getting quicker with making the necklaces which each only took me about 15-20 minutes. My only struggle was I dropped some beads on the ground which has been a common struggle, but my mom doesn't know this time;) I did not have to make any necklace holders for when I send them to customers because I have not had any recent orders... Everything takes time to grow especially a small business that is very simple, but I'm just glad to be doing something I enjoy for my friends. My action plan is still up to date thus far so I...

 Welcome back to yet another genius hour! This week I made a necklace for Ilyssa Avitabile again. She did one like I've previously made for Harley Meged, but with a different main color. This necklace was very easy for me to make which only took about 15 minutes overall. My action plan is still going well, which was making a brand name that I came up with last week. I also was supposed to have a jewelry ladder to keep the jewelry on and to model, but I'm not sure if I want to spend money on it as I've already spent a lot on this project. Also with making a sale last week to the girl in Ekalaka, she got it and said she's very pleased with it! I'm glad to hear about this and hopefully sell more in the future. I will be making 5 necklaces for Harley Meged once she goes to the NFR in Texas! Hopefully people will notice the necklaces she wears:) Thank you for reading and hopefully I'll have another easy successful week next week. See you then:)  Next week I'll be...

Hello! Welcome back to week 6 of Genius Hour:) This week I expanded my horizons and made a necklace different than any other I've made before! I made a white necklace with little turquoise circles and light blue beads to blend around it. This one was sort of challenging because I had to remember to put the blue pieces in front and behind the turquoise circles. The picture does not do it justice and I'd say it looks pretty darn good. My action plan has switched up a little bit because at the time I wasn´t quite sure of what types of jewelry I would be making. Oh, guess what! I made an Instagram page and someone from Ekalaka bought one! My Instagram pages username is 3_bar_co so if you get the chance go follow it:) Making this page can be a big step in the right direction for my jewelry making business, and I´m excited to see where it takes me. I hope to be able to keep getting better and have more people realize my amount of work ethic, and determination for my project to be a s...

 Wow, week 5 of genius hour went really well! Welcome back to my genius hour. This week I made a necklace for Harley Meged, an all black necklace with a cactus charm/pendant in the middle! I really liked making this one, and it was probably the easiest one I've made so far. This project took me about 15-20 minutes I'd say which is very fast. The only little whoops I had on it was getting the pendant centered so it would lay right once the necklace is being worn. I have been going along with my action plan as I should be which was adding a new charm to my necklaces, which indeed was the cactus. I was nervous the charms and beads I ordered would not get here in time, and my action plan would go all out of wack. I am even a little bit ahead of my action plan because I've put pendants on my necklaces before, yippee! This about all that happened this week and I'm very excited to see what is ahead for me and making this jewelry! Next week I'll be making a sort of pattern ...