This week we continued to work out the details of the project we chose. We have officially decided to do the cake bake off for our project. This week we had to figure out the timeline of our project and, in this way, we figured out the semantics of our next few weeks. There were a couple different levels that we chose to approach for the assignment this week. The first necessary step of the assignment is to determine which of us is planning on taking a baking class and which baking class to take. Therein lay a difficult problem in preparation for the assignment. A lot of time this week was devoted to trying to find a cake decorating class, however, most of these seem to be only available in other cities. We tried finding courses in Michales, Joann’s and Hyvee’s, which all claimed to have the course on their sites, but did not have any available in Lincoln.
To compensate for this lack of available classes, we had to modify our project a bit. Instead of taking a “professional” class, we decided a member of the group would then take a class from a friend who is often baking and is knowledgeable about the content. For the rest of us, we were broken down into groups of those who would watch Youtube tutorials and those who would do nothing in preparation. From here, we decided to emulate the show “Nailed It” on Netflix and all attempt to create the same cake with our various levels of experience. As well, we planned out a set time to practice this experience so we know what the setting will be like ahead of time.
Group Four 