Panther at the Museum, Nov 10

Who was here:
Myles, Gabe, and Saafir
Micah, Dominic, Taylor, Kaira, Vittoria, Andrea, Fernando (?), and Vittoria's friend

Goals:
...inspire notions about chain reaction for the chain reaction team by showing "The Way Things Go," and a segment from Pee Wee Herman's film....
...let the team try their hand at building a simple chain reaction event out of a helium balloon, large wooden "dominoes," a roll of tape, and a short stool.

Comments:
The teens were pretty upbeat and excited about being at the Museum. The were game for watching the films we had set up for them. We got a fair amount of mileage out of some of them on building the chain reaction sculptures. Doing it again, Myles and I would provide richer examples of dominoe runs/chain reactions. We neglected this point although we had built into our work with the other groups. Maybe we assumed that these teens had payed more attention when we did this stuff out at the club.

Morningside Elementary school was her for family science night tonight so it was fun that we knew many of the families who came. I got big smiles and hand shakes from at least a dozen of the children who came with their families tonight, and many of them knew my name.