Nobles County 4-H hosted its last day camp of the summer last week. Thirty-one youth learned about engineering during Engineering Day Camp with the help of two Bedford Industries engineers.
The day camp began with hands-on activities including Legos, building blocks and Jenga. Participants got to know one another by answering questions tossed at them with a beach ball. Next, groups were given twenty minutes to build a house that would fit their entire team using a building game called Toobeez. Afterward, teams discussed reflection questions while sitting inside their houses.
Camp participants also read a book about the difficulties of inventing the most magnificent thing, created marble tracks, read another book about simple machines and later built simple machines with items from their snacks and made race cars powered by rubber bands.
After building race cars, Annika Heitbrink, Sawelijah Moodoh, Elixa Ramirez Mejia and
Miles Hein (left to right) build suspense at the starting line.
Hands hold the pool noodle while others watch in wonder as Emma
Heitbrink releases the marble onto the track.
This team built without a plan and revealed insights about their trials and
triumphs during reflection time.
This team went in with a plan, and their proud smiles show it.
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