The weekend of January 21st, twenty girl scouts ranging from 6th to 11th grades worked together to utilize the scientific process and become engineers. The teenagers arrived Friday to break into teams of six or seven for the rest of their "sleepover". They started that night with team building activities and challenges as well as working together to build then play Mouse Trap. Have you ever played Mouse Trap? It's a Rube Goldberg machine in disguise as a board game!!
Needless to say, the challenge for these three teams was to create their own Rube Goldberg machine for Saturday. The objective was to pop a balloon. Their building materials were random household recyclables. Ladies from SWE were requested to come Saturday and judge each team in areas of ability, complexity, teamwork and repeatably. Each team did a remarkable job and several voiced interest in doing something similar again.
Special thanks to those who helped to plan and participate in this event and to Clara Garman for organizing it!
Needless to say, the challenge for these three teams was to create their own Rube Goldberg machine for Saturday. The objective was to pop a balloon. Their building materials were random household recyclables. Ladies from SWE were requested to come Saturday and judge each team in areas of ability, complexity, teamwork and repeatably. Each team did a remarkable job and several voiced interest in doing something similar again.
Special thanks to those who helped to plan and participate in this event and to Clara Garman for organizing it!
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