Moving From Land to Sea

The By Land Expo Night was such a blast! We got to celebrate all of the hard work from the arc with the Brightworks community.The Amber Band celebrating with friends and family at Expo.Elijah and his mom on the ladder he built.Audrey sharing a demo of her moss on Mars experiment.[embed]https://youtu.be/TsAC7Tbnof0[/embed]Before Expo though, each student shared more about their process through their presentations. They talked about all of their iterations, the experts that helped out along the way, the good times, the bad times, and all the ways their project helped them to understand the movement of things by land in their own unique way.Rhone presenting on his drift trike, and sharing out the struggles he faced when he bent the axle of his trike.Oscar talking about the problem he identified in the LARP cart, and how that inspired him to design a mobile LARP Armory.Declan sharing all the iterations that happened throughout his process, and the challenges of working with copper for his steam engine catalyst.We took time before presentations to practice many times. We also practiced each other's presentations with a round of "presentation karaoke", an improv game that has the presenter sharing slides they've never seen before. Practicing our presentations got us talking about the expectations we had for each other's presentation and exhibition of work, some worries about stage fright, and how we could all support each other as a band.Audrey presenting on Rhone's drift trike process in a round of presentation karaoke.I made little drawings of each student's project on worry stones as a way for them to feel ready for their presentations.Of course we took time to celebrate too. The Magenta Band welcomed us in for a post-presentation party, and we watched Finding Dory on the Thursday after Expo Night.Magenta Band, Indigo Band, and Amber Band celebrating after all the presentations were done.As we begin to think about some explorations by sea, we took some time to mind map out all of our curiosities. Questions bubbled up like: How do fish interact with humans? How does water exist on other planets? How does our food get here? Next week we'll begin by getting up close with some marine life, considering some conservation efforts we might want to help out with in our own Bay Area backyard.Amberites mind mapping possible explorations for the By Sea Arc.

brightworksMegan Leppla