This project was about depicting key historical events and figures in a fun, but factual, mini-golf course. The construction of these courses involved materials such as clay, felt, and wood. I spent a lot of time stapling felt to wood, handing wood over to get sawed, and lots and lots of sanding. My obstacle was a simple but effective way to show the Rosetta Stone and the pyramids. Creative writing comes easily to me, but sometimes that creative thinking doesn’t translate to being creative architecturally. It’s much easier for me to come up with an idea, but following through on that idea is a little more difficult. I overcame it by thinking more practically about the materials I had available, so I decided to use clay, which we had a lot of, to make the pyramids and the Rosetta Stone. The humanities portion was the most enjoyable part of this project - to me anyway. I enjoyed reading and writing about Napoleon and learning how integral he was to how Europe - and the world as a whole - developed. The math portion of this project was blueprinting the perfect geometrical plan of attack to sink the ball with as few strokes as possible. We designed the hole so that it was impossible to score a hole-in-one, but it could be done in a hole-in-two. The multimedia component entailed editing a video where a historical figures come back to life to play golf. It was by far the most stressful part of the project for me. I think most people underestimate how much time goes into splicing together multiple takes to produce a cohesive video - I’m not that person any more. From an editing perspective, how the video turned out was one of the things I was most proud of. Exhibition was a success, but at great cost. I discovered how short the attention spans of high school students and families alike are, and how both groups would much rather just play mini-golf. I gave the best presentation I could though.