my personal essay to NYU (please give me as many corrections as you can!!) Every time I went to the bakery would I found a donation box by the checkout counter. It always was an easily overlooked glass box wherein a few customers putting coins. “The box is too common to appeal contributions.” I thought, bewildered. Several years later，when I heard the topic of works is the ‘donation box’ in Tongji University Summer Camp, I recalled the bakery, the donation box and the sparse coins. I decided to make a difference, to redefine the donation box, to change the serious stereotype of charity. Why must the donation box only has one feature? What design can engage people in doing charity more? These questions were like bubbles buzzing around in my head. I had a heated discussion with my partner Max, who was a typical ‘science geek’. Snice he thought my conceptions were all too unrealistic and I complained about his prim and proper thoughts, we couldn’t reach an agreement. The discussion came to a deadlock, with both of us refusing to compromise. Out of sheer boredom I picked up my phone, tipping into online news. Suddenly, I was attracted by the foreign news about the story vending machine located in France. The aim was to kill time or boredom, offering a relaxing and comfortable environment for passengers waiting for trains. At that moment, a wonderful idea came into my mind: why couldn’t we design a donation box which can also vend stories? I prompted to share my thought with Max and fortunately, he considered it as a fantastic idea too. With the basic design ---putting into a coin and receiving a piece of paper with story or appreciation, we began to speculate about the specific operating system. It occurred to me that photoconductive resistance, sensing the coins, could be used to run the process of vending story paper. To tell the truth, it wasn’t a piece of cake for me to turn seemingly easily theory to practice since I was better at arts than science. Thanks to my partner Max who was obviously command programming well, the procedure was successfully accomplished. We chiseled a hole in the box, putting a laser light device on the other side of the box. If someone put a coin into the box, the photoconductive resistance wouldn’t sense the laser light and then it will drive the electric motor to turn its stick, making the scroll out of the box.