Nao's blog

There's some wires in there, I'm pretty sure that has something to do with motors. There's also some alligator clips and that conducts electricity, or does something else with motors. That's pretty much all I see that relates to any motor I have seen, I think. We got some generators and turned them and they made a light bulb go off. Then we hooked two generators together and they turned symmetrically opposite. We put pipe together and did other stuff.

 

Today i made this lil thing that makes a loud sound when you open this lil thing but the way i did i was with a magnet and this bell and taped them up and put them close together and then i started to get loud so my work was done

HI!  I want everybody to know that I am still here, since I have not blogged for a while.  I am still with YES, but now I work with Frank Mack and the Y2T teens.  They are a great group, even through we don't know alot about everybody in the group yet, because so many people are new.  We are looking at renewable energy, and how we can use different forces in nature to run a pump so our fish in the dome don't die.  We need the fish to stay alive, because fish pee is good for our garden plants. 

Hello everyone!

I have not written on the blog for a while, because I have been so busy.  I work with the City Science teens in the Taylor building this summer.  There are 43 teens in all, and they are all doing a great job along with their supervisors.  I have been reading the recent blogs and I have been very impressed by everybody's work.  It really shows how much work we do through the YES program.  I especially want to thank the 12 teens who work in the Latimer room, because they have been very patient with me when I have to take care of the whole Summertime Science program.  I promise that I will come outside with you guys and John at least one day to help make the burms.  Keep up the good work!

We are having a really cool inquiry workshop today at Taylor.  A whole bunch of people are here, many of whom I don't usually see in this building.  Right now, I count 57 participants plus 5-10 "helpers" taking pictures, blogging, video-taping, etc.  Becki is amazing.  Somehow, she is able to interact with every group and individual while still monitoring the entire group.  This workshop is an inquiry into different fruits (grapefruit, orange, lemon, and lime).  Right now, all the groups are doing explorations on the fruits without cutting them open.  People are dunking friuts in shoeboxes filled with water, weighing them with triple-beam balances, sniffing and squeezing them.  They look like they are having a lot of fun.  A few groups are doing really different stuff like rolling them on the floor (Cindy and Ruth's group) and doing complicated calculations that involve calculators (Frank's table).  I like how lots of groups are doing similar stuff but everyone is free to ask their own questions and figure out how to answer them.