Winding Down in the Last Quarter

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The kids are steppin' and fetchin' to get their work done, and some are moving onto their final projects!
Paige is creating her family portrait in wood, and she is learning to use a variety of tools to do so.

All of our students are exhibiting in some way in our STEM Fair, which will be held in a couple of weeks. The students will present a project or problem upon which they worked. I'm really happy that a few of my students decided to use their Family Portrait projects as their chosen work for the fair.

Our Dulcimers4Vets is off and running, and we're working on our design. We've not finished the first instrument yet, but we're taking measurements and making templates so that we can reproduce our work.

 Some kids are as done as they can be with their current projects, either because they have finished them or are waiting on parts or pieces. One of those classes is helping me to construct a big machine, where we will make bevel gears to transfer vertical power into horizontal motion. I told the kids they could design whatever they want.


Now, you need to know I'm in the Slytherin House, so the idiot Voldemort is a real sore spot for me. But the kids are going to do what the kids are going to do!

STEAM Lab E

While we are finishing up the coop jump, we will design and build a Gauge Frame Level, seen here:

Here is a video of the tool broken down and assembled by the guy who makes them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeT9xJI-0mk

So, you will watch the video, do some preliminary drawings of the different parts, and then draw the tool to scale, including a parts list.