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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Germanium, junk, Beast & rain...need I say more??

GERMANIUM: Aaron has a mind that works unlike others. His Honors chemistry class had an assignment to make a molecule: complete with electrons, protons, neutrons, etc. He was assigned germanium and took this project to an extreme.
This wasn't an ordinary molecule, he wanted this one to actually rotate, so he used motors from an old DVD player and wired AA batteries to make each part rotate and spin.

JUNK: After school Aaron and Taylor saw that our neighbors down the street had a pile of junk in front of their house for a trash pick-up day. It seemed they brought half the pile to our driveway and side yard to disassemble and use for their Go-Cart project.
...old moving reindeer...
...fax machine...computer monitor...fan...lights...
...DVD player...weed eater...
...all kinds of pieces and parts...

...computer parts...
...even a lawn mower!


BEAST JR.: This is Beast Jr. The smaller version of "The Beast". Aaron built this rocket himself out of pieces, parts, tubes and cardboard. He launched it last week and said it worked great!

RAIN: During our big rain and wind storm yesterday Aaron and Taylor (together again) restaked my little trees so they wouldn't blow over in the wind. The storm was raining hard but they had an excuse to be outside doing something, so they didn't complain!

1 comment:

  1. I hadn't seen this post!!! I love it! I am so glad that you have the pics. That pile of junk may haunt us for a long time. But it will keep them busy for a while.

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