ALA new Projects

Ok, the ALA group as a whole, are now working on projects of their choice for the end of the year. Some are working on MicroWorlds projects, some are working on new music with the technology we've used, and actually writing songs to go with the music they are creating, and others are working on a new film idea. I have one group that wants to work on a recruiting film for the Design IT project, and another group that wants to create a student webpage for the Design IT website. We have lost some of our members as they are wanting to spend more time finishing their schoolwork and other extracurricular opportunites. The summer institutes with IBM are shaping up right now, and i have about 20 kids signed up for them. We'll be trying to get more of them involved in the coming weeks.
Next week i will be interviewing about 8 of the students for the summer teaching positions for the museum school project. I have 4 students right now set to go with me to do a community event in two weeks - the WATERAMA event where we will be showing ICE THERAMIN and the electrostatic properties of water.
THe RADIO SHACK opening is on May 20, and 10 kids are set to go to that to talk about the cricket machines they built.
We have some great community exposure coming up, and we've already got a large crop of students interested in starting up with us next year.
I also want to make sure the current eighth graders know that they are invited to come back at the beginning of their school year next year to join us for MINDFEST!

The students will work on their new projects until June 1, and then we will showcase them on June 2.

Jonathon