Dear blog,
Today was very exciting. I went to MIT and it took an hour ride on the bus to get there. I learned so much about space. The thing that interested me the most was the centrifuge. I found out it spins 60 miles per hour and that if you go on the moon it ages your bones by ten times! After that, some of the girls had the chance to go on the moon walker. There is a vest that you put on and it pulls you up so you feel as though you are on the moon or mars.
I am having fun today! Today is Augest 3, 2010. Today I was moonworking on a moushin.We look at aror steps on the pedometer.
I Love today becouse of the moonworking! I use the pedometer for everywhere and doing everything!
I can't wait to go to the stem lab on wednesday! I Love the pedometer to look at how many steps I have talking!
I Love NASA! I talk to my new friends and my old friend! To me Astornuts are cool! I know everthing about space almos.
Space is very inrestin to me! I Love being on Eath but I would like to go to the moon someday!
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The day at MIT started with an exhausting bus ride to the college. Once we were of the bus, we stretched our tired bodies and enter the building. We had a PHD student guide us throughout the building. He brought us to a room and gave us a short introduction about the college, what he does, and the other programs that are associated with the college. After he was done speaking, he brought us to a room that had a centrifuge in it. The man explained what it was and and the purpose of the machine. We would have been able to go on it, but it was under construction. They were trying to...
wow first day at new camp made some new friends and some of them i new from school. first we started at the girls inc then we went to the MIT,
and we saw this centerfuge and it spins when you lay down on it.
also the gravity maches when you stand! after that we went to this astronaut thing, that we were waching the man explain some stuff about the space suit and the little well i shold say big robote.
then we went...
Today we took a bus to Cambridge. It took about 45 minutes. Then we went into this building about aerospace adn met these two people. The were both scientists. One was named Brad and he brought us into his lab which was the Motor Vehicle lab. He shwed us a lot of cool machines. He Showed us a centrifuge which was this platform where a person layed down and spun around the center of rotation. We learned about the inner ear and the liquids inside it. Then we went in the other part of the lab and Brad talked to us about space. He told us space suits are very hard to move in and he showed us...
So far the week at Goddard girls is pretty fun.Today we took a bus to Cambridge to talk about space. The bus ride took about 40 mins.When we got there a scientist named Brad gave us a tour of his lab. We saw a contraption called a Centrifuge. This peice of technology is for astronaunts up in space. This helpes the astronauts get as much calcium as their bones need, because in space there is no pressure so their bones lose alot of calcium and thay are of no use when the astronauts get to the space station , moon or any other place there going. the Centrifuge spins in a circle around and...
We spent a day at MIT today. It was slow paced at first when we had to take a hour long bus ride to get there. Then, We waited and listened to a lecture/discussion all about space suits and attempts to modernize them. The day drastically inmproved when we were able to go on the moon walker. A simple contraction made of pulleys, a battery, a metal support, and wiring. The moon walker makes you lighter by hooking you onto the device. Then, you walk, hop, and run on the treadmill beneath it. WARNING!!! The moon walker can give wedgie/rashes as my fried puts it.
Yesterday was...
Today we basically learned all about safety! We learned what things would be the most important and the least importantin different experiences. We learned what you would need if you went of the boat and were on an island. The best one was learning about what you would need if you landed ofcaorse on the moon. That was more fun because we need shelter to survive, so we built forts that we would use on the moon. We were split into groups and we rolled up newspapers, then stapled them together to make our fort. After we were all finished with our forts, we combinded them together to make one...
Today was the first day of Goddard Girls. At first, it was really quiet beacause only the Davinci Divas knew each other, but then everyone started to talk and it became more lively. We first talked space and what NASA is. Then we moved on to our first activity and tried to survive in Jamestown with our groups. Then we went to the STEM lab and tried to survive on the moon in 2025. Next we built moon habitats. It was a lot of work, but it was really fun in the end when we put them all together. And we all had our pedometers today. Some girls got up to 2000 steps, but I only got about 1097. I...
August 2, 2010
Today was the first day of camp. It was not exactly what I had planned because, the first activity we did today was survival lists, which really dont interest me at all. We did 2 of them which I think was too many. Also the second activity we did today was building our moon habitat. It was a whole lot of fun. We had to roll up 37 pieces of 4 newspapers stacked in a pile to make these logs. Then we followed the guidelines of the packet we were given. From there we stapled them into the form they should be. Next we stapled all the parts together and got a wicked awesome...
Today we learned a lot about survival. We even did survival activities of back then and the future. I learned that one of the most important items for survival is oxygen, food and water. Without any of these things you probably wouldn't be able to survive. We also went to the stem lab and built moon habitats. We learned that moon habitats are for humans when they land on the moon. The moon habitats that we built today were made out of newspaper but some of them were very sturdy and firm and some -my group's included- were kind of flimsy and they were hard to stay put.After each individual...
Today We went to the stem lab . It was so fun their we built these house to keep us safe in space if we ever got trapped !!! We made them with news paper . we roled up the news paper then we taped it . Then we put together all the space houses it was a fun day !! What i learned today was that 1st team work is always needed !! I had alot of fun to day working with my team !!
Now today we also played Survial then & now I had a fun time playing that game!! You learn about space at the same time you have fun !!
That was a fun day at the goddard girls program !!!!
Tuesday, August 27, 2010
Our second day as Davinci Divas and we explore the many habitates of each animal we saw. The princible we learned today was Sfumato. The whole purpose was to watch a show about planets and galexies in the planetarium. Most od the show was about the predictions scientists today have of two galaxies colliding in to one. Our adventer moved on as we learned about there habitats. We discovered more and more. The lesson reminded me of a book I read, Invissible Man by Ralph Ellison and he comes to his own ideas of the world an d trusting himself and himself only....
On Friday 30 of july we had a food fest with all our favorite meals!!!!!!!First we went to the Higgins Armory and we saw all of the cool armor they had, which people really wore!!We learned alot about why people wore the armor and why sometimes people in the 15o0-16oo wore designed armor around them and it was to show off that they had a lot of money,And down below is a diagram that shows the parts of the armory.And the food fest was delicious all different kinds of food was good and a nice experence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On July 29th, we visited the Worcester Art Museum. (;
The first gallery we visited... well, I don't remember the name but we got to see the oldest colonial paintings in America. On the left was Mr.Freake ( pronounced frate ; 8D ) wearing his best clothing. His jacket had 28 silver buttons. On the right was Mrs.Freake and her daughter. The daughter was very stiff. The artist was untrained and didn't go to school, since his living was drawing buildings, designing them...
When we went to the kitchen we started to cook and I made my food, it is a Puertorican food and it is cald -limber de mani and it means ice cream of peanut butter. It is just evaporated milk (2) cans of it and peanutbutter water and sugar at your taste and what I mean about your taste it that you can put as much of it as you want and water not so much it is a half a cup . milk the 2 cans and that is all it is really good and you could try it some day well thank you for reading my blog have fun hope you try my reciepe.
On July 3oth, a Friday, in the year 2010, the girls who were at the progam, "Davinci Divas" payed a visit to the medical school section of UMASS. We were givin a tour of the SIM labs. The SIM stands for Simutation. They have life like manniquens that can simulate situations for students in the medical feild. They can take blood, take IV, and take blood pressure like they could a normal person. They could really do anything they could a normal patient, but without the risks of doing it on a real person.
They had 5 simulation manniquens. One full sized adult male, one full sized child...
To start off, on thursday 29th 2010 we went to the STEM lab to design and build CEV's. CEV's are Crew Exploration Vehicle's, relating to the Space topic and Leonardo topic, it was a great mixture of works. I personally thought this particular activty was truly interesting.My group and I came up with a sphere-like shaped rocket that gave viewers eyes a twic, as in it was unique from others.But what REALLY gave it a shiny effect was the tin-foil covering the outside of the CEV. Also not only that our CEV had a tin-foil layer but we even added a heat isolation layer to keep the heat in...
When you hear the word, "diva", you must instantly think : "sassy,sweet,fashionable,independent". Obviously, the word "armor" doesn't come to mind at first. Neither does "renissance,medival, or gothic". It's actually far from it. But the DaVinci Divas of this very Girls Inc. were learning about the other side of the typical story of the damsel in distress and the knight in shining armor, Friday, July 30th. We learned about the typical medival male behind a suit of armor. 9 times out of 10 it was a particularly rich kid from the 14th century, showing off all of Daddy's money. Some of them...
