The following reports were written by members of Engineers in Training during the third day of the program. Some elements may have been removed/edited for various reasons, but the text that remains is in the student's own words.
Name: Susu
Comments: I had fun today. I liked building the models and filling them up with sand to see who's weighed the most. I also liked the M&M's little thing that we did.
Name: Omar
Comments: today i had fun we saw how many marbles will fit in our structure. that was relly cool byt i lost but thats alright but then i won ememnems by working as a group. that is what i did.
Name: MSW
Comments: i thought that it was fun when we tested the structures. It was also fun when we made the boxes and filled them with sand. Except that i had a really hard math problem.
Name: Will
Comments: At the beging of the section I was A littile bit confused but garratt helped Caleb and I and was all better.
Name: Stuart
Comments: today we figured out the relationship beetween the mass, surface area and, the volume of a box. in the beggining though we finished the contest we started yesterdayn on the pins andstraws and which construct would hold the most marbles
Name: Kendrick
Comments: I especially loved when Mr. G gave us those m&m's according to the numbers we chose. Mr.G's really cool.I'm pretty sure i'll be back next year.
Name: Caleb
Comments: I only came for half a day but during Garette was here I was very excited we had bridge building tested and in the afternoon we got on the computer I was on the computer with Will and we had a educational thirty min.
Name: Claire
Comments: Today is my third day at Shodor. At hte begingig of class we bulit a contraption to see how many marbles it could hold. Then we worked on optomisum by picking different number, if we had the same number we did not get a prize. then we made boxes to figure put the volume and mass. today was fun.
Name: Kala
Comments: I had a fun day at Shodor. In the beginning of class we held the contest for who could could build the strongest and tallest structures. Stuart's team won. Next we learned about optimization. During this we got M&M's. It waws fun. Lasty we learned about linear equations and measurement. Today was a fun day.