Rajeny's Genius Hour Project

Hey everyone, I'm back with another weekly update on my progress towards my goal for this Genius project!  It's going well, despite the fact that I'm a bit behind schedule. But thats okay!! My goal will still be achieved just on a different timeline. With this week's allotted 90 minutes, I was able to make 3 more complete masks and I have a bunch more patterns cut out and ready to be sewn! The plan was initially to allot more than the set 90 minutes in order to get some more masks completed, however with all of my other classes I couldn't find the time. Hopefully within the next few weeks with course work dying down, I will be able to spend more time sewing!  I have already shown some of my family what I've been working on and have already collected some donations! I am super grateful for those who have and hopeful that my peers will want to donate to those who are less fortunate. It'll still be great even if they don't donate by purchasing a mask, and o...

Hey Everyone! I'm back with another update on my Genius Hour project! So far it's going great, BUT one thing is for sure, I was definitely over-confident with my timeline lol! With my initial timeline, the goal was to have the first batch of products ready to go by Week 7... which is next week.  I don't think I will be ready by then but of course there is still hope! I didn't take into account how much time it takes to make just one mask, but I will get there eventually. As I make more masks, it should start to get easier and take less time to sew each one. Thus, I am still hopeful I will be able to have something to sell, hopefully by week 8. I will just have to devote more than the set 1 hour of time to get this done.  In terms of either selling the product on Instagram versus an E-commerce site, I think it's best to go with Instagram for now. Based on the scale of this, I won't be selling enough to make the transaction fees on E-commerce websites worth it. I ...