Swallowed By A Whale Week is here and Tinkering School is abuzz with excitement!
In the morning we spent some time getting to know one another, learning the safest way possible to use each tool in the workshop, and sharing ideas on how we can interact together in the workspace through our Group Agreement.
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Yes, the title of this post is a rather poor word substitution joke about Wednesday being hump (fulcrum) day. But today was the day that the See Saw team got to work building the fulcrum for their see saw! The Tinkerers really put in a solid day of work today, and we went from having the merest sketches of our ideas built at the start of the day to having full, impressive structures by the end of the day. There's definitely more work to do, but we seem to be well on our way to having our own custom built playground on Friday!
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Wow! We had an incredibly productive second day. Tuesdays are always our first full day of building, and and both teams made a lot of progress.
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Today was the first day of a new week at Tinkering School! We have four main goals that we try to achieve during every day and every week of Tinkering School: to help one another collaborate and make friends; to try harder than usual; to learn from mistakes and failures; and to build something bigger than ourselves. This week we'll be trying to achieve these goals through building a Tinkering School take on a favorite place of many people: the playground!
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Today, as usual, we started out with some planning meetings, both as a large group and in our two smaller project teams. We're all getting pretty good at planning meetings, and in the cats and dogs group, we even practiced some problem solving techniques that come from the field of organizational psychology. Specifically, the team learned about how research has found that when groups deliberately discuss problems without proposing solutions, they are much more likely to create more effective solutions later on.
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