I have found origami an interesting and calming experience since it deals with the intricate folding of paper in order to achieve beautiful shapes and figures. I have chosen origami to cater to the creativity component of my CAS. Moreover, origami also helps an individual improve one´s dexterity and patience since origami uses a lot of it.

For achieving good origami skills I have decided to create 25 origami figures. 15 of the figures will be based on animals, 7 will be vehicles and 3 will be interactive objects. I tried to minimize the use of adhesives (glue, tape etc.) and fold paper meticulously in order to resemble the real life object I intended to depict.

As an addition to my interest in physics. I have also understood how various shapes of paper airplanes can affect their trajectory during flight.

I catered to Learning outcome 1 in my undertaking by identifying that folding basic shapes and symmetrical patterns is where I am strong at. However, my weakness is that while folding complex shapes I tend to tear the paper a little bit, which ruins the whole figure since the steps ahead cannot be performed properly. On the bright side, I have learnt to build my patience and try again till I get the complete figure right.

I catered to Learning outcome 2 by practicing a lot of origami until I get the process correct. It was a very big challenge to repeat all the steps again and starting over is genuinely a better option rather than continuing the mistake till the end which I learnt the hard way. Moreover, the challenging parts were forming complex shapes and repeating patterns while creating the interactive objects took a lot of effort, but the effort resulted in amusement of the users of the interactive object. Origami is a good skill to have and develop since it has many practical uses in fields of architecture, medical designing, aeronautics etc.

I had 2 amazing experiences while doing origami. The first is the experience of actually putting the end product of origami into use in order to fulfill recreational purposes. I experienced this while flying my airplanes since the airplanes had been modified by me in order to achieve maximum flight time, travel the furthest distance, loop in the air etc. and the plane following the intended trajectory helped me visualize how principles of physics apply in real life. The second amazing experience I encountered during origami was the creation of interactive object which can be played with indefinetly. I found these interactive object interesting since these objects were created and converted from a flat 2d piece of paper into a complex and engaging outcome.

The whole experience of origami allowed me to build the learner profile thinker since origami is like a game of chess where a decision and the next decisions have to be thought in advance in order to be successful. I used my critical thinking skills in order to plan the folds ahead of time such that the outcome is similar to the desired outcome.

Overall, I would conclude that the activity was a success since I was able to learn origami and skillfully execute my learning in order to create the aforementioned objects out of paper thus achieving my initial criteria. The process of origami help me build skills of patience, dexterity, and focus which would help me in real life.