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My 24 Hour Woodworking Challenge

Welcome back to my blog! This post is for the first Action Project of the Humanities class, Endurance. In this class, we have been learning what it means to endure. We looked through history to see moments where humans endured, such as Ernest Shackleton's survival in the Antarctic and the Holocaust, while we read the book Night by Elie Wiesel. We also introduced small challenges we would have to endure, like holding an ice cube in our hand for as long as possible. For this Action Project, we have been tasked with committing 24 hours to a challenge with a clear mission and guiding question. My mission for this AP was to build and improve my woodworking skills and create something that is important to me. My guiding question was, what is the best bridge I can build? For 24 hours, I worked toward creating a wooden bridge by myself with only a small amount of woodworking experience behind me. While working, I recorded my progress by taking photos and filming time-lapses. The video below shows my journey over those 24 hours, and I have also journaled each hour of work in the document below. I hope you enjoy watching my video.

24 Hours of Endurance, GS, 2023

Sources and Thanks:
1. Hours 1+2 images from: The Crucible
2. Music: Sunset Vibes (Lo-Fi/Chillhop) by 23843807 from Pixabay
3. Special Thanks to:
    - my parents for shopping and assisting me with the assembly
    - my teachers for providing me with materials and guidance

24 Hours of Endurance Journal, GS, 2023

I hope you enjoyed watching my 24 hour, bridge building journey. Working on this Action Project was a lot of fun and I definitely improved on my carpentry and sketching skills. The bridge is important to me because it represents my experience throughout my 4 years of highschool. I think learning how to use saws and drills is useful because they can be helpful for small fixes or creative projects and do not require much time to learn. When I started this AP, I tried to plan ahead to account for as many possible problems that I could forsee so there wouldn't be any time wasted. But I was faced with a few small and large challenges and those large ones stressed me out because I felt like I wasn't prepared to overcome them at all. Even though I did not finish building my bridge in the 24 hours, it will be completed in the future and I may even do more work on it such as installing a winch system the makes the bridge rise and stay up. Thank you for watching and reading, and I hope to see you in the next post.

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