Yellow Band: By Sea, Weeks 3 & 4

All hands on deck!We've got a few fantastic field trips under our belts, and we're starting to get our sea legs. Last Friday evening, the Yellow Band took an after hours field trip up to Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland for their weekly stargazing. Every Friday and Saturday night, weather permitting, the museum opens up their telescopes for folks to come take a look for free. AND, apparently they also host a telescope making workshop on Friday nights! So, not only did we get to look through their historic telescopes, we got to hangout with some super nice people who are working on making telescopes of their own!Now, all of this was because of building the constellation, which itself is because of studying a bit about celestial navigation. So, last week and this week we worked both on writing numbers like Babylonians and using a simple sextant, called a mariner's quadrant to both locate our latitude and determine height of a few very tall things around our bandspace.Meanwhile, the Red Band has been trying to make little submarines--aka crafts with neutral buoyancy, that won't sink or float, but rather hangout just under the surface. So, on Tuesday we went to the USS Pampanito! And the Aquarium of the Bay after of course! Our day was full of:Have a great break everybody!