Tinkerfest
The Museum of Discovery (which we are members of) has an annual Tinkerfest where they let groups from the community come in and set up fun booths where the kids get to "tinker." It was an amazing event and free to members. There were a lot of actvities outside and inside as well. Thomas says his favoirte was "the rocket shoot off thing." This was a station set up by Lockheed Martin where you got to control a missle launcher electronically and then push a button to shoot off some foam rockets at foam blocks. Luckily, there wasn't anyone in line behind us for a while, because Thomas was at it for a long time. They also made hula hoops, giant bubbles, a water rocket, and marshmallow guns outside. Then we went in and made spiders with glowing eyes, "robots" out of cups, batteries, wires, and motors attached to a small piece of glue stick, boom cups with a plastic cup with a hole in the bottom and a cut balloon, rope from twine, and formed a circuit with playdough and wires. Needless to say, it was a great time and we came home with a lot of fun stuff! Unfortunately, we forgot the camera and the phone was nearly dead so this is the best picture we got. It is the missle launcher and the foam blocks. The man in orange is loading the launcher and those are the target foam bricks next to him. We were shooting at the target on the other side (out of the picture), and they were shooting at our blocks.
