Kaitlyen My buddy was a litte girl named Kaitlyen. She is a bright young girl that reminds me a lot of myself when I was younger. She was always reaching for the next book to read and inbetween books she would make sure that no silence remained unfilled! Her favorite animal is a cheetah and her favorite thing to do is read so we combined these two things to create her night light. She was very excited to help and made it very easy to decide what things to do and what design to choose. By our last visit, Kaitlyen almost didn't let go when I had to leave.
The first time we went to visit them, the purpose was to interview our buddy to get to know them and what they like so we could create a few design ideas for them. We also spend time doing anything around the classroom with the kids. The next visit we showed our buddies a design from each memeber of the group and we let her choose which one she liked the best and created out final piece after that. Our last visit we focused on the aesthetic of the night light and spending time with our buddy one last time before our exhibition. While we were doing all of this for Physics, we also were picking up information and asking sneaky questions to try to make a book that our kid would truly love.