NEW CHALLENGE: NASA Needs Your Help!!
Safely from your space capsule where there is plenty of oxygen to breath, build a tool from spare parts aboard your vessel to retrieve the objects floating in space. Each item may require a different addition to your tool but BE careful not to damage or lose any of the items upon bringing them aboard, else this will result in a failed mission. After safely retrieving all four items place them back into your vessel [On the desk in the box] for safe transport back to Earth. Also disassemble your tool you used [so others can think creatively] in case you need those spare parts for the mission home. Do you accept this mission?!?
As always the challenges can be found in the Maker Space by the children’s section.
Eat, Play, Grow, Week 3 Recap: “Healthy Beverages”
This week the topic was “Healthy Beverages”. Once again Marii from Salmon Valley Local Foods showcased her teaching ability to the young listeners that were in attendance. Interacting with different common beverages found in the American home we weighed out the amount of sugar in each. The kids learned how to convert grams of sugar to teaspoons upon reading the label contents of a package. We filled up cup after cup of hidden sugars in a variety of beverages shocking the audience. It wasn’t all about unhealthy beverages as herbal teas were presented, orange water tasted, and other options discussed. A hands on approach was illuminated through our bodies being sponges and if we don’t drink our daily amount of water we become like a dry sponge. This lesson found it’s way to the hearts of even the youngest participant, albeit they may have just liked squeezing the sponge full of water. Regardless the impact was felt, the love shared, and ideas explored all around the topic of healthy beverages!
Join us next week at Town Square park for the fourth installment of “Eat Play Grow” when Marii discusses, “Smart Sleep” and how that becomes a crucial part of home life.
Here are some highlights from this week’s adventures.
Summer Of Code Recap Week 4: “A Shooting Star”
I was thrilled to also to see some of the students beginning to come in on their own time and check out the beautiful Chromebooks provided for this project. We definitely have a few future game makers in our mix and it’s showed by their desire to pursue onward. From spending time playing games or surfing the internet without much resulting back to learning a skill that will set them above the rest learned at such a young age.
We had a record number of students staying after the time allotted for the class to “just” finish up the project they were working on. Pleading to mom or dad to stay a bit longer to work on computer programming is every facilitator’s dream and here at Salmon Public Library we’re starting to realize it. Given praises from the speaker last week about how excited he was that the library here is offering this type of opportunity for kids, blew him away.
Our hope is that with the amount of students that signed up, the ones who are participating and continue to participate, maybe it takes hold on a few and offers them a new experience, a light at the end of the tunnel that they never knew previously existed.
Finally this week most of the students got through the second major creative project “Shooting Star”. And while we have new stars emerging in our class and plenty of shining stars all the time, I’d like to highlight Marci Deweese’s dedication to detail and imagination by showing off her work on this particular project. We had to be creative to think up a way to make her star trail disappear as it flew across the night sky, but with her solid foundation in the lesson’s she was learning and a little help from our vital volunteer Brett (who’s interning at Computer Zen) we were able to make it happen. Great work by all! See you again next week!
SPLAT Team Coming to Salmon Library!
We will be joined by- ICfL Rep: Patrick Bodily. SPLAT Team Members: Jack Uhde, Crystal Miller, Deana Brown. Deana recently was chosen to visit the White House for the work she’s done with the Boise State University Maker Lab and now she along with the other SPLAT members mentioned above will be coming to Salmon to offer there encouragement, creativity and support in Salmon’s transition to a more accessible community facility offering a wider range of programming.
From 10am – 12pm on July 28th we invite you to come in, bring your family and participate in a dialogue about the possibilities Salmon Public Library can offer in the future.
We look forward to the opportunity to expand upon our existing Make It type programming with the help of welcoming in the SPLAT team. We hope you’re able to join us.
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