Mentor Log 1

On Wednesday April 23rd, I met with my mentor for the first time at the student Tate center. We agreed to meet at 4:30 in front of the Tate center. I called him to let him know where I was waiting for him, and when we met up, we went straight inside. The student center was nice and we looked for a study room. Unfortunately all of them were taken up, so we were stuck outside and had to talk very quietly.

When we found a table to sit at, Nate (my mentor) asked my what the main idea of my project was and what I was trying to get across. I explained to him that I was researching the therapeutic aspects of origami and that I had a research paper on it if he would like to read it to get a better idea of what I was talking about. So he read my research paper and after he finished he asked me what I would like to do during my time with him and how he could help me make my project great. I told him that I really needed help on working on my product and if he and I could work on actually constructing origami while we meet.

Nate then pulled out his laptop and looked up origami diagram instructions on the Internet. when we found some basic easy ones to try out first and warm up we folded a coot, which is a bird of some sort. We messed up on this one and the color part of the paper was on the inside instead of on the outside. We then learned the symbols that described the folding techniques on the diagrams. The next one we tried was a bear, which came with the color side out and it worked out great.

We decided that since we could read the diagrams better now, we should try something a little more complicated. So we tried the famous origami crane. Surprisingly enough, both of our cranes came out very nice and cute. We figured that we had enough time to try one more complicated one before he had his next class and before his computer died. so we folded a paper iris, which is a flower. This one was much more complicated and I had a little more trouble than he did but it came out looking really nice.

By the end of the session at about 5:45, he had to go to class and we agreed to meet again this coming Wednesday at 4:30 again. We said that we may meet on Thursday as well. When I left, I had One hour and fifteen minutes of mentor time down and a good start on my product, which is going to be an origami collection.