One word... AWESOMELY FANTABULOUSLY, AMAZING. Okay more than one word. The bus ride was even awesome! I usually get carsick but this time I was fine! Wendy and I talked awesome, ate M&M's, played with riddles and got really hyper! Ella got so load she got told to be quiet by the bus driver.
Mind Lab is in Petone (Pronounced, pet-o-knee) so we had to go through Wellington which was raining and so was Petone, so when we walk through the car park we were freezing cold. Mr R saw a glass building and figured that was it. A man named Malcolm welcomed us. When we stepped in the building we got a blast of warm air which was really nice to feel.
The people from our class that traveled by car and got there before us got fizzy drinks which was sad to see.
Malcolm gave us a run though of what was going to happen and Miss G told us to split into groups of 14.
My first activity was the Makey Makey and Stop Motion Animation. For that we had a website called Scratch. The website had a piano that can connect to this panel called the earth. We connected the earth to us with wires and then connected different wires to playdoh. When we touched the playdoh, the piano would make a sound because we connected the electric circle. That might not make sense, but I'm not that great at explaining.
My personal favourite is the Stop Motion Animation. We took a bunch of photos and played them all together to make a sort of video thing. I will show you guys the video in my next post.
Then we had the Scribble bots. We had to get into buddies. I chose Wendy... Then Mr R came along Dun Dun Dun. And I got put with James M. Oh joy. UGH. We got a plastic cup, some rubber bands, tape, felt pens, a little motor and batteries so it can draw circles. Amazeballs! Well it would be more amazeballs if ours worked, but James took over and it ended a failure. Other groups had succeeded so that that photo down there ↓ isn't ours. James decided, hey! Why not use two cups and hold it in the air so it sprays us all? So he went ahead and did it. He held it over the paper and was like see? When it made little flicks on the paper, then he lifted it up higher. Then the felts started spraying us with it's colour. I ended up with a pink arm green streaks on my pants and tiny yellow dots on my shirt. YAY!!! Let's all celebrate!
Then we made race cars. I know what your thinking. Oh wow! Race cars! Oh, but wait there's more! They were made out of cardboard, CDs, straws, skewers, a mini motor, and a propela.
But... We got to chose our own groups! Whoop and score!!! Wendy and Charlotte all the way peeps! And our car was a success!!! Photo of amazingness. ↓ (Not really)
