Need I say more? Here in SF, our week of building an underground world, one with mine shafts snaking through, a giant boring machine, and and some super fancy carts for traveling around underground. But also wooden rocks and watermelons. How did we get here from there?
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Here in San Francisco, we had lots of opportunities today to learn from mistakes and failures today, in order to improve the safety, functionality and aesthetic appeal of our projects. From small mistakes...
Read MoreToday we got really, really into insect details at Mark Day School. Now that have a structural foundation (mostly) complete, both teams started to really make the projects LOOK like super weird insects!
Read MoreAt Tinkering School, usually by Wednesday we have to have the "drill talk" with everyone. Today was no exception.
But, first let's back up! What's the Drill Talk? Why are we having it?
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How do you know if someone needs help? How do you know if you need help? Today's build session focused on asking for and offering help, from the beginning of morning circle to the end of afternoon reset, we asked these campers to think about how they're communicating to make the most of their collaborative build sessions.
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Tuesday is always such an exciting day here at day camp, because it's the first day in the week that we get to build all day long. So, these campers really get in the groove of their projects, which gives us so many opportunities to work on our Tinkering School goals.
Read MoreYesterday, we got off to a great start at Mark Day School. We started building a couple of really weird insect designs, where we took bits and pieces from quite a few (normally) tiny critters, mixed em up, smooshed them back together, and came up with plans for two fantastical wooden creatures.
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We struck gold with this group in San Francisco this week! So, we're going to go deep, mining for precious nuggets of collaboration, effort and resiliency in the face of mistakes and failures. And we got off to a great start with tool training this morning!
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We finished out our Under the Sea week here at day camp, finishing things up here with a spin, a float and a chomp. All the groups worked so hard all day on Friday to put some finishing touches on their projects, with folks adding movement, fabric, color and dimension.
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