Day 10 & 11

School 4, Chamabona Community Junior Secondary School!!!

On the first day we arrived at the school at 12.30pm, workshops commenced at 1pm. The workshops for the 204 eager pupils today were paper airplanes, bridges, sail cars and polystyrene cup telephones.

The paper airplane workshop is a competition to see which group of students can make a paper airplane travel the furthest using only 3 pieces of A4 in 15 minutes. Throughout the workshop the dynamic and static concepts, including Newtons Laws and air resistance, were explained to the students. The students really enjoyed the competitive aspect of this workshop.✈️✈️

Next was the bridge workshop, where students were give a price list for materials and fake money. The students had to decide within their groups the design of their bridges and the materials they would need to buy. It was great to see the children working together creatively to decide their design. Once the bridges had been built, they were tested with a variety of weights. The different approaches to the brief across all the groups was very interesting. The kids really enjoyed testing their bridges.🌁

The sail cars were the next workshop. Made from card, paper, tape, toothpicks or paper clips, straws and wheels kindly donated by team member Lily. The sail attached to a straw on top of the car is designed to be blown along by the wind or by blowing on it. The kids really liked seeing which car would go fastest.🏎️🏎️

The polystyrene telephone cups are a new workshop for today, having not been done previously at any other school. A piece of string attached to polystyrene cups. The idea is that if someone speaks into one cup the vibrations will travel along the string to the other cup for someone else to hear. The kids also enjoyed this workshop which had varying levels of success. 📞☎️

Some of these workshops were repeated on the second day with the inclusion of a tower building workshop. The aim of this workshop was to build the tallest free standing tower possible out of only 7 pieces of A4 pieces and tape in 15 minutes. The kids really enjoyed the competition. 🗼🗼