Legs, Legs, Legs? – Step it up!

As​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌ part of a challenge for the 2025 Summer Learning Journey, we had to come up with a dog concept featuring a unique device for buffs like super speed, a self cooling system, or a snack dispenser that is build in. My response was to make a Turbo Booster canine and equip it with wheels giving it more speed and mobility all being widely improved.

Moment in time

We made a diorama and a Google video about a moment in time something happened in history, I chose to do balloonfest 86 in cleaveland in Ohio because it really caught my attention on how balloons broke a record but also how it caused a death of 2 people and were sued for millions later on.

Careers

In LS2 we were asked what would our dream be and what would be want our Job or career to be, I didn’t have much ideas but one came to mind, so I chose to be a game developer or tester of some sort on online.

If I really want to become a developer online then I would need I will need to know different skills and techs of games and will need a good setup, I will need to know how to code but I will mostly just play platforming games which are usually 2D games where you jump around platforms to avoid other obstacles. I would also try open world games which are like adventure games with a fully packed open experience to the world which lets you explore new places without extreme requirements.

If I were a developer I honestly won’t really be making games but I would like to be a tester or bug fixer of games from creators and start to recreate test servers for it and make sure hard things are possible and to write codes.

I will be doing it for around 9-12 hours a day and will be using my own room, I will start around 9am and end around 8Pm-10Pm but also I would have good pay if I was recognized as a average new new zealand game developer earns around a whopping $60,000 to $80,000 per year while experienced ones earns around $80,000 to $100,000+ per year while every hour they make around $33-$59.

Charlotte Anne

In LS2 we listened to the poem about Charlotte Anne and we learnt about what life was like for women in 1870’s, so we were challenged to make a presentation about things that are different between then and now and also what is still relatable.

Women life in 2025 :

This modern day has more advanced technology and it is easier for women to get jobs, they can wear all different types of clothes.  They can now learn and get education and they get more opportunities socially and they can get more jobs to earn money for their family but luckily they can wear all types of clothes in public.

Women’s life in 1870’s :

In 1870’s women had no right to vote, own property, vote, allowed to get jobs to raise money for their family and they weren’t even allowed to wear normal clothes and had to wear dresses nearly all the time, also women weren’t allowed education from school, this is all because of legal and social conditions which were making them become less independent and have less social opportunities.

What is still relatable :

The same things are that women still have ongoing struggle for equality, own body and life concern and fair recognition for their work, they are both challenging existing systems to achieve a better society.

Shearers Strike

We learnt about the Shearers strike in 1891 and the story of what happened and why they protested.

Summary
In 1891, a large group of workers known as shearers, were responsible for gathering wool from sheep, so they decided to stop working. They did this because they wanted higher paies and good working conditions and justice overall. They thought that this would help the pastoralists realise that they needed fair pay and needed better working conditions.

Perspective A
Shearers were not earning enough money so they decided to go on a strike to demand for more stuff to help them. They stopped working for more money, they started protesting against pastoralists and fighting back the shearers were attacking or reasoning with people who go past the “line” which just means people that go to work are people who cross the line.

Perspective B
The pastoralists were losing money due to paying the shearers to much money because the demand of wool went down so they decreased the shearers pay which made them want to strike against the pastoralists, so if the shearer past the line the protesters would threaten or reason with each other to join the protest against the pastoralists and threatening the pastoralists. This made the land owners bring in the police to hopefully to stop the strike.

Overall
Over all at the end of the day the Shearers would have lost money if they left their job so they just started working again but some stopped working overall since they didn’t want to be paid very little from this job and because the pastoralists wouldn’t raise the pay and they called the police so they were forced to stop, but this still shows that as a union people are still strong.