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Back at it with the Boys & Girls Club after school program.
I am just finishing up the winter session, in two different schools, with the following classes:
It's been a very busy and productive couple of months, that's for sure. My Litchfield class (Flight club and rubberband cars) is a 5 week session which ended last week. Merrimack (all the other classes) is a 7 week program which ends this week.
I hope to get my photo albums up (I am actually behind schedule for 3 full sessions) but in the mean time, here are a couple of pix
- One of the more elaborate roller coasters using several of the elements required for the final coaster (turns, loops, spiral, hump and jump)
- Learning the "Double Glue" method of attaching fins. You will note that different kids selected different fin orientation for their models
- ONe of my long standing rocketry students finds different challenges in plastic model construction.
- Here we are gluing the wheels onto the axials of our rubber band powered cars
- In flight club we note the differences between the balsa gliders and the propeller driven balsa planes.
I am just finishing up the winter session, in two different schools, with the following classes:
- Magic - learning card tricks, slight of hand and some close up prop magic
- Weird Science - Each week we explore different scientific principles. We've done air pressure, chemical reactions, electricity, friction, magnitisim, etc
- Roller Coasters - we design roller costers using pipe insulation and marbles
- Rubberband powered cars - Build cars from cardboard that are powered by wound up rubber bands
- Flight Club - Each week we explore something different that takes to the air (paper airplanes, balsa airplanes, air powered paper rockets, kites, paper helicopters, etc)
- Beginning model rocketry (this session we're building the Rhino)
- Advanced rocketry (D-Nelson Tomahawk)
- Plastic model building - This session we're building car models
It's been a very busy and productive couple of months, that's for sure. My Litchfield class (Flight club and rubberband cars) is a 5 week session which ended last week. Merrimack (all the other classes) is a 7 week program which ends this week.
I hope to get my photo albums up (I am actually behind schedule for 3 full sessions) but in the mean time, here are a couple of pix
- One of the more elaborate roller coasters using several of the elements required for the final coaster (turns, loops, spiral, hump and jump)
- Learning the "Double Glue" method of attaching fins. You will note that different kids selected different fin orientation for their models
- ONe of my long standing rocketry students finds different challenges in plastic model construction.
- Here we are gluing the wheels onto the axials of our rubber band powered cars
- In flight club we note the differences between the balsa gliders and the propeller driven balsa planes.