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It's been a week since chaos and i don't believe it but the supervisors are actually listening to us a little. It feels like they are really hearing what we're saying instead of brushing it off. They're talking with us and helping us too. I also feel that the teens are starting to work a little harder but they need to keep workin on it. There hasn't been any arguements lately either. Now we're working on our long term projects. These are projects that will last for the rest of the summer & maybe even next year. The supervisors are helping us with them which is cool. Some of the other teens and I came up with the idea of building a life sized car made out of wood. It's gonna take us a while to make it but we'll get there in time.

That's it for me so DUCES

Hope u havin fun down there Felix.

Today at Adams was cool. The investigation wasn't stupid today. It was actually kinda alright. I didn't see anyone who was bored with the investigation. I think everyone had a good time today. The subject for today was optics. We did a investigation with our shadows. Where we saw how our shadow height was different from our real hieght. The we went back to the taylor building. WAZUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP FELIX. HOW IS HAWAII FOR YA HOMEY. WE MISSING U UP HERE IN ST. LOUIS IT JUST ISN'T THE SAME WITHOUT U DUDE. DUCES

Man it's been crazy these last three weeks. Everybody's doing something wrong. The teens are getting into it with the supervisors & each other. See we feel that the supervisors aren't listening to us when we talk to them. They say they are listening but i think they listen but then later forget what we say like it isn't important. We've done all sorts of things to become a better group. It's like this when we go over the investigations for the sites sometimes they don't go with the kids at the sites and we try to explain to them that it's not going to work but they don't listen sometimes. On the other hand the supervisors feel that some of us aren't working. So now they're trying to give us things to do. I agree that sometimes some of us don't work when we are supposed to. I think that if the supervisors start listening to the teens they'll start working harder but if they don't start soon this will be a long boring & horrible summer for everyone.

Just to let everyone know, this doesn't affect our work at the sites. We still go hard and do what we're supposed to with the kids.

I hope that next week is a lot better

This is our first week at work and it's aight. So far we've just went over what we are going to do for the summer. We also met all the new  teens in learning places. We've done icebreakers and team builders to open up with each other. We met up with Kit and she told us what she'll be doing this summer with us. The supervisors told the new teens about the grant. And thats about it for this week.

Peace out  

    This semester was great. I've learned a lot from the experiences we've had. The things I've learned can help me to be a better employee. During this semester I was able to form a better relationship with my employees. I learned things that could make me a better person also. Some of the experiences we had can also help me to reach my goal of becoming an architect, like talking with Joe Burzinski and doing the presentation for my site at Ranken Technical college. These experiences have helped me to better appreciate science because I'm not a big fan of it, but being here has changed my view of science a lot.

    I've met all kinds of different people like the teens from the science museum in New Mexico and the teens from the science museum of Minnesota. We've done little workshops every other Saturday called college prep that basically prepare us for college. In college prep we do activities that our supervisors think will help us choose a good college and get into it. The people who came here this semester have been great also. We had an architect named Joe Burinski talk to us about the structure of different buildings. We had a lady named Ellen Rubin who was blind, but that didn't stop her from learning. She talk to us about disabled inventors. Then she showed us how she makes it through the day. After that she talked about sand. That Saturday with her showed me that if a women who is blind works hard to continue to learn more about science than just giving up, science is something I want to continue to work with. This semester we had a glass maker visit us. His name was Rich Brooks. He showed us how they cut glass and how to make jewelry.

Today was an ok day. Today we worked on optics. We had seven stations and at each station there was a different question and project to do. Went to each station did the project and answered the questions. We did that from 9:00 till 1:00. After that we cleaned up, did the daily assessment, and blogged.

Today we did college prep. In college prep we redid our resumes.Then we   had a visitor who came to talk to us about glass. He was an artist. His name was Rich Brooks. He showed us a couple of pieces of jewlerey he made. Then he showed us how to make our own piece of jewlerey. We started but didn't get to finish. He told us how glass is made from sand. And how easy it is to cut glass. H e also said that some glasses are called cold glass and others are called hot glass. When he left we did an activity that dealt with digging. We were to pretend to be csi agents looking for evidence of a murder. After we found the evidence we had to put together a story of what happened. It was cool until Messa and Felix lied to us about having their own stories. Later after the activity we went over what we liked about the botany and the sand activities we have been doing. Then we did the daily assesment. Everyone was in the green today. I think that, that's where we should be, because everyone was on task and we didn't have any arguements today either. After the assesment we went to the computer lab and blogged.

Have a cool weekend

& peace out