Creating our Coin Counter: The Wood Shop and Painting. Constance Wellman and Haley Knox

We began the construction of our coin counter box by purchasing a plastic tupperware container from Storables. We then cut four perfect rectangles in the top by first drawing a diagram of the dimensions of the box, drawing this layout on the box and then cutting them out of the plastic box with the Vertical Speed Bandsaw in the Wood Shop. After we sanded the four rectangular cut outs on the top of the box we sanded the whole box with 600 grain sandpaper. Next we spray painted the box with white paint giving our box a very clean finish. Through this experience we learned how to construct and build a physical object, which allowed us to have creative control over the entire project. A picture of the rectangular cut outs is posted below.