Days 4 and 5: Making Motion Each pair worked creating their objects and building the module that will move their light. Once the modules were built, students programmed Crickets to make their motor turn on and off, change directions... however they want it to move. Nina and Justin made a machine that will move their feather towards and away from the screen, using corrugated cardboard, Lego gears, a motor and a Cricket.]

This fall, Karen Thimmesch and I are working with a group of 6th graders at Museum Magnet School (St. Paul, MN) to make kinetic light art, using materials that make interesting shadows and reflections, lights, screens, and crickets and motors to make these lights and objects move. Days 1 and 2: Experimentation We spent about an hour each day playing with lights (mini Maglights, with the top taken off), screens (pieces of vellum, hung under the tables), and materials (netting, sparkly fabric, feathers, mylar...) to explore the images we could get.