Week: #3 -- Progressing to Design

We have just begun actual work in our classes. This week contained the basics of learning the AutoCAD program. As part of this process, we were required to make small, two-dimensional planter boxes. These creations were sample blueprints for the actual garden planter boxes we hope to complete. According to our instructor, orders have already been placed by a sub-division of our own school and by another school. Interesting and rather surprising to see that the class fills orders from other establishments or the students. Fundamental to building this is the compound miter saw, a device used for precise cuts in simplistic building materials.

Another worthy note is that we have been assigned an essential question as extra food for thought. This question was "what is a labor union?". I happened to research that a labor union is a group of workers who collaborate to gain better conditions and wages in a work place. Most comprise of basic workers and laborers, though variations are numerous. Such unions formed in the mid-to-late 19th century, during the United States' Industrial Revolution.

Unfortunately, I cannot access my own blueprints as of present due to complications within computer programs and Google Drive.