Checkpoint Goal: Finish junior shirts and start freshman shirts.

Original Plan for the Week: Finish junior shirts and start freshman shirts.

Changes: None

Daily Log:

• Monday: Finished printing junior shirts.
• Tuesday: Cleaned up printing area.
• Wednesday: Tried to print transparency for freshman shirt but it didn’t work.
• Thursday: Burned freshman screen.
• Friday: Taped freshman screen and blogged.

Plan for Next Week: Start printing freshman shirts.

Pictured: Completed junior shirts and freshman screen.

Checkpoint Goal: Finish junior shirts and start freshman shirts.

Original Plan for the Week: Finish junior shirts.

Changes: We didn’t quite get the shirts finished because of problems with the screens.

Daily Log:

• Monday: No school.
• Tuesday: Created new checkpoint.
• Wednesday: Worked with the screens trying to get them to work.
• Thursday: Practice printed and started printing actual shirts.
• Friday: Print and blog.

Plan for Next Week: Finish junior shirts and start freshman shirts.

Pictured: Practice and final print of junior shirt.

Checkpoint Goal: Finish scholastic bowl shirts and get started on junior or freshmen shirts.

Original Plan for the Week: Finish scholastic bowl shirts and start junior shirts.

Changes: None

Daily Log:

• Monday: Helped with weeding senior design and printing vinyl.
• Tuesday: Worked on the screens with clorox wipes.
• Wednesday: Worked on the screens with clorox wipes.
• Thursday: Worked on the screens with clorox wipes.
• Friday: No school.

Plan for Next Week: Hopefully if we get the screens to work we will print the junior shirts.

Pictured: Practice prints of junior shirts.

Checkpoint Goal: Finish scholastic bowl shirts and get started on junior or freshmen shirts.

Original Plan for the Week: Start scholastic bowl shirts.

Changes: The other group is doing APUSH shirts so we couldn’t really start scholastic bowl.

Daily Log:

• Monday: Nothing. Waiting on design.
• Tuesday: Went t0 the author thing.
• Wednesday: Burned junior screens.
• Thursday: Cleaned old junior screen.
• Friday: Cleaned other junior screen and blogged.

Plan for Next Week: Finish scholastic bowl shirts and start junior shirts.

Pictured: New junior screens and old junior screens.

Checkpoint Goal: Finish scholastic bowl shirts and get started on junior or freshmen shirts.

Original Plan for the Week: Learn how to use vinyl and get the scholastic bowl design ready.

Changes: None

Daily Log:

• Monday: Worked on checkpoint and emulsion trays.
• Tuesday: Re-did checkpoint because our goal changed from class shirts to scholastic bowl. Worked on emulsion trays. Double checked with Ms. Harris to see what she wants.
• Wednesday: Emulsioned screens and took inventory of what we needed for scholastic bowl shirts.
• Thursday: Worked on finding the scholastic bowl design.
• Friday: Absent for WYSE.

Plan for Next Week: Start on scholastic bowl shirts.

Pictured: Inventory for scholastic bowl order.

Not Pictured: Cleaned emulsion tray, emulsioned screens.

Checkpoint Goal: Finish sophomore class shirts, reburn junior screens, and start printing junior shirts.

Original Plan for the Week: Finish printing junior shirts.

Changes: We couldn’t print because the screens were messed up and we didn’t have screens emulsioned to burn more.

Daily Log:

• Monday: Lined up junior screens and realized we couldn’t use them.
• Tuesday: Nothing. Waiting on screens.
• Wednesday: Nothing. Waiting on screens.
• Thursday: Cleaned emulsion trays.
• Friday: Blogged.

Plan for Next Week: Emulsion and burn junior screens.

Pictured: Cleaned emulsion trays

Checkpoint Goal: Finish sophomore class shirts, reburn junior screens, and start printing junior shirts.

Original Plan for the Week: Finish sophomore shirts and start junior shirts.

Changes: We couldn’t start junior shirts because we had no tape.

Daily Log:

• Monday: No school
• Tuesday: Finished printing sophomore shirts.
• Wednesday: Cleaned while waiting for tape to come in.
• Thursday: Nothing. Waiting on tape.
• Friday: Taped the junior screens and blogged.

Plan for Next Week: Print junior shirts.

Pictured: Finished sophomore shirts, cleaned squeegee, taped screens.

Checkpoint Goal: Finish sophomore class shirts, reburn junior screens, and start printing junior shirts.

Original Plan for the Week: Burn junior screens and start printing sophomore class shirts

Changes: None

Daily Log:

• Monday: Cleaned the messed up junior screens.
• Tuesday: Nothing- waiting on transparencies.
• Wednesday: Burned one of the junior screens but it didn’t spray out correctly because the emulsion was too thick.
• Thursday: Burned both of the junior screens and did a practice print of the sophomore shirts.
• Friday: Printed sophomore shirts

Plan for Next Week: Continue printing sophomore shirts.

Pictured: Cleaned backwards junior screens, messed up junior screen, new junior screens, and practice sophomore print.

Checkpoint Goal: Start and finish sophomore and junior class shirts.

Original Plan for the Week: Re-burn the junior screens and print sophomore shirts.

Changes: We couldn’t re-burn the screens because they weren’t sprayed out in time and we couldn’t print the shirts because they haven’t  come in.

Daily Log:

• Monday: Nothing. Waiting on shirts and screens.
• Tuesday: Emulsioned Screens.
• Wednesday: Nothing. Waiting on screens to dry.
• Thursday: Work on Final Blog
• Friday: Work on Final

Plan for Next Week: Work on Final

Pictured: Could not photograph emulsioned screens because they have to be kept in the dark.

• Burning Screens
  • We got into the habit of checking the transparencies before burning screens to make sure they were printed in rich black.
  • We learned how to fix screens without re-burning them if they were not sprayed out perfectly the first time by using Clorox wipes and green tape. This has saved us a lot of time and energy, especially on the sophomore class screen. Some of the thin letters were not sprayed out all the way and we used Clorox wipes to take off some of the emulsion as needed as seen in the picture below.

• Making Less Mistakes
  • Last year my screen printing group went through a lot more shirts than what we did this year. This is proof of us making less mistakes and therefor being more efficient. Last year we burned through about enough shirts to fill this whole bin. This is the bin this year (some of the shirts in the bottom are still left over from last year and most of them are from the other class). Ally and I probably only wasted a total of 10 shirts through out the whole semester, if that.

• Less Help Needed/ Problem Solving On My Own
  • Last year, my screen printing group needed help with almost every step of the process from lining up screens to solving problems during actual printing. This year we did almost all of it on our own.