make cool stuff

long day but very rewarding. worked in the morning with jon and megan with the first group, then megan, saafir and i teamed up for the second of our new gaggles. the icebreaker was great that jon had planned which split everyone into groups. everyone wrote a fact about themselves that noone else knew and we put the sheets in a hat and selected them at random. we then tried to guess who's sheet was who's and the order picked put them in groups. my favorites were "i like sushi" and "i'm scared of leprichons". chain reactions involving the new element of swithches followed. great new ideas including tangling up baloon string on a battery powered motor to make the baloon go up and down, then reversing polarity to do the opposite. sweet. in the evening saafir, gabe and i had a blast with the teens of bngc-panther, who had alot of energy due partly i believe to new surroundings. snacks, t-shirts as sellin tools seem to have worked for the chain reaction cycle, but can't wait to see how they react to the band saw and drill. we did learn examples created before hand with new groups is essential, but the ratio of three staffers to eight kids helped alot. luv myles.