It was a very exciting weekend. With sports, music concerts and the eclipse.
Almost half the children made it to Maker Faire. The participants talked about their favourite projects. Hopefully over the month of June, they will submit a write up of their favourite projects and describe how the projects were put together. Only choose projects where you learned how it works even if it is a basic or general description.
They all received a copy of the magazine and need to choose a project that they would be interested in working on. They can also chose to work on a Rube Goldberg machine or an old assignment from the Tech Challenge or Odyssey of the mind. The latest challenge has been posted for next year for some of the contests.
Hopefully they can find a partner and work in pairs. Geoffrey and Henry want to work on a Arduino Project which they learned about at the Faire.
Over the first few classes, they had more open ended challenges. Now the children have one that needs to work mechanically.
They started working on a balloon dragster and will complete it and test it next week.
THOSE WHO HAVE NOT, PLEASE COULD YOU SEND THE PARTICIPANTS GMAIL ADDRESSES SO THAT GEOFFREY CAN SIGN THEM UP FOR THE WEBSITE.
