This week we were not able to meet in class so we had a couple of discussions over group me. There was a little bump in the road as I was not able to get together with my friend to show me baking tips. Her family was coming to town so she wanted to spend time with them which is completely understandable. Thankfully Fangrou was able to get footage of her friend giving baking tips. Emily is also hopeful that her mom will be able to give her some baking tips over the weekend and record that. Sometime next week we plan to get together as a group and have a practice competition. This means we are going to set up our cameras and go through all the troubleshooting we might have when we do our actual competition. For this practice, we are going to decorate a cake by doing it with crayons and paper. I think our project is going very smoothly so far. Whenever a problem comes up someone else is able to help no problem. We also plan to get a start on the layout of our website so once we have our footage it is super easy to put into place.

This week as a group we finished up our team schedule. We also ran into an issue with finding a cake decorating class in Lincoln. Everywhere we looked either did not host a class anymore or never had in their Lincoln location. To improvise we decide to have one person get lessons from a friend that had prior baking experience, two people learn from watching YouTube videos of cake decorating, and two people going in with no experience at all. This way we can see the difference that experience makes and if you can really learn it from YouTube. This week my job is to get my “class” scheduled with a friend and try to film that in the next two weeks. As a group before the start of week seven, we decided to have a practice run of our final baking competition day. We are going to find a room we can set all our equipment up to film and have our cake decorating competition with coloring. This way we can work out any kinks we might run into during our actual filming day. Other than getting our schedule figured out and who is going to be in charge of what we did not have much else to do this week.

This week we gave our presentation to the class about what ideas we had for our project. Based on the feedback we got we should focus on our second idea which was a baking competition of some sort. We will have one or two people take a baking class and then have them compete against two people who did not participate in the baking class. The competition would then be judged by people outside of our group. I would guess the judging would consist of a decorating portion and a tasting portion. The class that would be taken would probably be at hy-vee or another local store that has cheap baking class. The idea was also thrown around to look into SEC to see if they had any cake decorating classes. We also need to get a schedule made so we can get that all sorted out. I know we want to try and get the class and filming of the competition done before spring break. That way we can focus a lot of time on the website layout and interaction. Also, that way if we didn’t get enough film of a certain thing we could reenact it. So far our project planning is going smoothly and hopefully, it stays that way.

This week we didn’t have much to do. We gained our final group member this week which allowed us to finish up our Team Contract. Finishing up the contract allowed us to get our planning out of the way for the semester and get communication started between the group. We started a group me and got a google slide going for our presentation we do next week. After we got that all started we focused on our different ideas for our project. We narrowed down all our ideas to our final three. Those top ideas ended up being going to an escape room, having a baking competition, and watching a movie and getting a behind the scenes view.

For this next week, we all plan to help with the presentation that we need to give. It’s not that long as a presentation we all just want to be informed with what we will be speaking on. After this week we will start getting a lot more done for our project as we will finally have our idea finalized. There is nothing I would do differently in the future as we are just getting started. I think we are all excited to get a project idea finalized and hit the ground running.