On the first day of the synchronous week, we watched the animation, Soar. It's a story of making and the maker mindset. A young inventor has designed and built a toy plane that crashes on its maiden flight. Shortly after, they notice a tiny travel bag has dropped on a table and then a tiny person emerges from a small aircraft that has dropped from the sky, broken. The tiny person is afraid of the inventor at first, but that quickly changes. The inventor sees the problem, a broken propeller, and quickly repairs it with materials on hand. The repair does not work and the the small aircraft crashes. The tiny person sees that the inventor wants to help and empathizes with their situation. The two characters are from very different cultures, but they understand each other.

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At its core, the story is about Liberatory Design, the maker mindset of positive failure, the resiliant human spirit, and hope. Since taking this course I have a much better attitude towards making and doing that doesn't go right the first time, and will take that attitude into my daily life and model it for those that I serve.