Boronia West - 2012 Archos

1. THE
ARCHOS
PROFILE
Canstruction 2012
Bailey Tiah Brynlee Harry Nathaniel

2. TIANA HYNES
Tiana Hynes
12 years of age
My Canstruction Goal:
To get better with working as a group and to help me improve my
maths. I would like Canstruction to help me be a good team leader
and cooperate with others.
Strengths I’d be able to offer the team:
To be able to work well in a group and get along with each other.

3. CALLAN DAVIES
Callan Davies
12 years of age
My Canstruction Goal:
To be able to cooperate with my team to be a great leader.
Strengths I can offer the team:
I can fluently use Google Sketch Up.

4. TIAH CADDY
Tiah Caddy
11 years of age
My Canstruction Goal:
To work more cooperatively with my team mates.
Strengths I can offer the team:
That I have pretty good team work skills and I have built lots of
things before.

5. NATHANIEL LEWIS
Nathaniel Lewis
12 years of age
My Canstruction Goal:
To be able to co-operate with the others.
Strengths I can offer the team:
To get all the measurements right and get the build done before the
end of the second day.

6. CHLOE FALVEY
Chloe Falvey
12 years of age
My Canstruction Goal:
To be able to create things using different objects to make big
things.
Strengths I can offer the team:
I am a very artistic person and I can help design and make the
structure.

7. COURTNEY RYAN
Courtney Ryan
12 years of age
My Canstruction Goal:
To be able to work with new people I have never worked with
before!
Strengths I can offer the team:
I am very creative with tape! 

8. BROOKLYN VIRGONA
Brooklyn Virgona
12 years of age
My Canstruction Goal:
To be able to work with all my team and cooperate with them.
Strengths I can offer the team:
I’m good on computers. 

9. BRYNLEE KILPATRICK
Brynlee Kilpatrick
12 years of age
My Canstruction Goal:
To help the homeless people and to work better with people I don’t
know that well.
Strengths I can offer the team:
I am good at helping others. 

10. HARRY LEONHARDT
Harry Leonhardt
11 years of age
My Canstruction Goal:
To be able to work together as a team.
Strengths I can offer the team:
I’m good at sticky taping stuff!

11. BAILEY GALE
Bailey Gale
12 years of age
My Canstruction Goal:
My goal is to finish the Canstruction item.
Strengths I can offer the team:
I’m good at building and I’m good on computers.

12. History of Archery
The archery board is one of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Archery
dates back around 10,000 years and was first used for hunting and
warfare before it was a competitive sport.
Archery made it into the Olympics in Paris 1900. It was dropped from the
programme after the London 1908 Games, and then returned for a
single appearance in 1920. After a 52-year gap, the sport was back in the
Olympics at Munich 1972 and has remained on the Olympic programme
ever since.

13. At our next meeting we had to find out all of the calculations and the size of an
average can. It took a while but we found out all of the calculations. We had to
work out have many cans we would need to build the archery target.
In our next meeting we had to work out some of the things we would need to
build the archery target. Then we had to find out how many of each colour
cans we needed and what colour can we needed to get. The colour cans that
we needed was, Yellow, Red, Blue, Black, White, Green, Aqua Blue and Orange.
We had to get the school involved with then getting the cans for us. We had a
book week and we had to come dressed up as one of your favourite book
characters. The next time we had to get cans we had a free dress day. We got
class’s to bring extra cans for a prize of a container of lollies. The class that
brought the most cans were 5/6D.
When we were ready to build we had to put paper on a board. Then we sorted
the cans in the colours that we needed.
We started to build on the 3rd of September. We started to build and it was
going really good. We spent the day building. We had lots of fun building and
worked well as a team. We had 2 people cutting the sticky tape and 3 people
building, we had 1 photographer and the rest of the people were on the
computers.

14. TEAM GOALS
The teams goals were to achieve to work well
together in a team. We did work well together, and
we achieved the goal of working well together. We
had lots of fun as a group and we all helped each
other out. Are group was made up of Tiana, Callan,
Nathaniel, Chloe, Brynlee, Brooklyn, Bailey, Courtney,
Tiah and Harry. The people in our team got along well
together and enjoyed working together as a group.

15. ROLES Builders
Photographer
1 Sticky Tape Person
2 builders
5 computer people
1 photographer,
1 person who cuts the sticky-tape
We had two days to complete the build. We Started it After
assembly on Monday and continued it after recess all the way
to Lunch. The roles worked well and we all got a chance to
build and go on the computers.
People on
computers

16. Materials
The materials that we used in our build were sticky tape. We
used the sticky tape to hold all of the cans in place. We used a
board that the archery board was built on.
Some of the materials that we could of used were:
Sticky tape
Ply wood
Wire

17. The Process

18. Brainstorm
At our first meeting we discussed what our team would want to build. The theme was the
Olympics. Our ideas were…
• Olympic Podium
• Olympic Torch
• Cup of tea and crumpets
• Medals
• The Queen’s Dog
• One of the Mascots for 2012 Olympics
• The Queen’s Crown
• The Queen’s Crown on a Podium
• Big Ben
• Swimming Pool
• Running Track
• Archery Target
• The England Flag
• Olympic Podium with a cup of tea and crumpets
• Olympic Podium with one of the 2012 Olympic Mascots on top
We finally chose an archery target with an arrow coming out of the side. We chose the archery
design because we thought it would be a challenge and it would be fun to experiment with
colours and cans. Miss Dawson then helped us decide how our Canstruction Design would be set
out. We decided it would look like this:

19. Archery Design

20. Coloured cans we needed
The different coloured cans that we needed was:
Green- Odd shaped cans for the grass and 3 for the feathers on
the bow.
Yellow- The inside of the target
Red- the second middle colour for the target
Aqua blue- The blue colour on the target
Black- The second outside colour on the target
White- The outside colour for the target
Orange- The arrow
Dark blue- The background colour

21. How we got cans
We had a book week at school and on the Friday we had a
dress up day. We had to dress up as one of our favourite book
characters. It was a gold coin donation and a can.
We had a free dress day to get some more cans. The school
came in free dress and it was a can donation.

22. The Mathematics of our design
To find out how many cans we needed we had to see
how many cans went across the bottom of the board,
which was 16. We then we found out how many cans
went on the side which was 16. Then we multiplied
them together (256).
We had to find out the average size of each can. The
size is 200 x 308.

23. Building
We had two days to build the archery board.
First Day
On the first day we started to build. We put down the cans on
the bottom and then we built it up. We had to take a photo each
time we placed a can. To put the cans in the right places we had
to follow the design that we had. There was three people
building and a photographer. There was someone getting the
sticky tape ready, the rest of the group was on the computers.

24. Building
Second Day
On the second day we built up from where we left it. We placed
each can and then took a photo. After a couple of photos we
taped it all together. When we getting close to the top we had to
be careful because the cans were three above the board. When I
was all done we had to put the grass down. We played around
with it so we could get them in a good place. When we finished
it looked really good.

25. COMMENTS
Tiana- Canstruction was a lot of fun. The build was lots of fun, but it was a bit difficult to get the cans in
the right spot. We worked well as a team and got everything done quickly. Getting the school involved in
getting the cans for us was a lot of fun.
Harry- Over all I think we went very well during all of the sessions and I think we all had a good time.
Nathaniel- I think it was successful but we did do the wrong calculations. We worked well together and
communicated better than other teams.
Chloe- The whole build was a fun and very difficult thing to do. Getting all the cans to stack up in the
right spots was difficult. Overall it was an awesome time.
Brooklyn- Canstruction has been AWESOME!! The build was difficult, but overall it has turned out great.
Wish I could do this again!! 
Bailey- Canstruction was a fun experience for me. I had lots of fun. I would like to do it again. 
Courtney- Canstruction was really fun! I really enjoyed being with all my friends, and with new people!
Wish I could do it again 
Brynlee- I really enjoyed doing Canstruction and it was a difficult task. Overall it was an amazing
experience!!! 
Callan- It was fun and it has been a great experience for me.
Tiah- Canstruction has been an awesome experience for me. I had heaps of fun. I hope I can do it again
next year.