Skin Cancer

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Skin Cancer

• By Ben C, Jenna H, Corey C, and Spencer M

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At the Beginning

• We all chose Maya Lin as our inspiration artist
  so we all ended up getting in the same group.
• At first we thought we were going to do a
  memorial of something important, just like Maya
  Lin didbut then we decided it was more important
  to increase awareness about issues then
  memorialize them.
• So, instead of doing a memorial we decided to do
  awareness.
• Now it was time to choose our issue.

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Brainstorming

• First we tried to think of an issue that was
  important to us all and that we could all relate
  to.
• Our idea at the beginning was AIDS, but soon we
  realized that we didnt know any specific people
  with AIDS.
• So we thought some more, and we came up with a
  new ideaCancer.
• We wanted to narrow it down to a specific kind of
  cancer. We decided to do skin cancer, because we
  each knew someone personally whos had skin
  cancer.

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Brainstorming

• One specific way that we thought of that could
  cause skin cancer is fake suntanning beds.
• Finally, after many hours of deliberation we came
  up with the idea of creating a tanning bed in the
  shape of a coffin!
• To create the coffin/tanning bed we decided we
  should have some sort of lights inside the coffin
  shape.
• We would have a burnt Barbie-doll inside of the
  coffin to create the visual effect that tanning
  beds cause skin cancer, which causes death.

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STEP ONE

• First we had to choose what we would create the
  coffin/tanning bed out of. We decided to use
  metal because it is easy to shape, it burns so
  you can get the look you want, and its fun to
  work with.
• We cut out the metal in a shape that would be
  easy to tell it was a coffin.

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STEP TWO

• We spent about a week and a half soldering
  together the bottom of the coffin/tanning bed to
  the sides. We used a blow torch, flux,
  screwdrivers and pliers, solder, and our brains
  (Jennas a nerd)!

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STEP THREE

• Mrs.Kieling bought us some micro-lights to use
  for the tanning bed part of the coffin.
• We needed to get some batteries and find a
  creative way to place them in the tanning bed so
  that it wouldnt interfere with the overall
  project.

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STEP FOUR

• We had planned to put Plexi-glass over the
  lights, so that the burnt Barbie had something to
  lay on.
• The Plexi-glass was thick, and we had to figure
  out a way to cut it. After trying various methods
  we ended up sawing it, with a miniature hack saw.
  
• The plastic cracked and broke many times, but at
  the end we decided that it looked cool, because
  it looked deadly (Corey says) and old.
• We added white tissue paper so that it wouldnt
  be so see through.

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FLAMING BARBIE

• We burnt the Barbie.
• It was sweet.
• Heres a pic

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SKIN CANCER
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THE END
THANKS!