Hello Friends! I just made this great black and white PIE calendar for 2008! It has illustrations of homemade switches on it and drawings of supplies floating all around!

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Have a great year!

Asia Ward

Last week, I helped with a two-day Kinetic Puppets class for 6-8 year olds. I've taught this before as a one-day class. The kids make two characters that move using bottle cap cams (Adam's project is on the right).

Last Saturday I taught a class called "Blinky Bugs" to a group of 9-12 year olds. The class was three hours long with a 15 minute break, and a 10 minute clean up. "Blinky Bugs" are small basic circuits made out of a guitar string, a button battery, and two LEDs. Then you add detail to your circuit to make it look more buggy. When it's all made, the guitar strings move around in the wind, touching up against the LED arms,completing the circuit, and lighting up the LEDs!