July 14, 2009

July 2009 Newsletter

Summer Activities
Now that your children are out of school, are you looking for some new ideas?  The summer kids activities page has ideas for summer projects. 

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July 9, 2009

Robot Week Day 5

For the final day, we made a few changes.  The first time, all the robots had trouble pushing the statue up the ramp.  The changes for this year were partly to see if anyone could actually complete the whole challenge for the final day.

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July 4, 2009

Robot Week Day 4

We simplified the Library challenge this year.  The robot had to use a string to go around the basket and return to the entrance.  Then the teams had to pull on the string to retrieve the basket with the key.

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July 2, 2009

Robot Week Day 3

Our morning started out with the teams finishing their robots to complete the crystal challenge.  In the afternoon, we started the library challenge.

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June 30, 2009

Robot Week Day 2

We made a lot of changes to the second challenge.  In the book, this challenge has robot robot crossing the room on a string (vine) to drop pebbles into a container.   Once there is enough weight in the container, the next door is opened.  During our first Mayan Adventure, the teams amazed me with how easy they found this challenge.  So we came up with something a little bit different.

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