For those of YOu interested in learning how to make zooming Presentations

Hey All,
     A few of you were interested in making zooming presentations the way I did for the invention convention web site. 

prezi.com

I use a program called prezi, you have to create an account which is free for students. You must have an email ending with @whateverschool.edu other wise you can buy a membership.




There is a lot of information on the web site itself including tutorials. You are all very bright gentleman and I am sure you will be able to figure it out.

Last Minute Experimentation and Invention Show

On Friday we finished up on our creations from thursday, a lot happened in a short amount of time. Then we set up for the show, we displayed our inventions off to the parents.  At this point in the week I felt as if we needed two more weeks to invent even more one week was jut not enough time.

Jake testing his kinetic sculpture and trouble shooting
additional moving parts.

Parker demonstrating the movements of his bottle man.

Sam is working tediously on his half aesthetic half
functional machine.

Sam's blueprint of his invention.

Cam's amazing balancing car!

Final Show

Good Links Part 3

Mechanical-Toys.com-

 This site shows some simple mechanisms that help in the creation of automata 


Functional Jewelry Weapons

An afternoon at the Nelson Atkins Museum

Epic Shuttlecock Photo

Art Blob Machine

Our Inventors Checking out and Art Invention at the Nelson

Bonnie describing a Robert Rauschenburg Collage Painting.
(Is this an art invention)

We enjoyed the sculpture park while getting our daily intake of vitamin D.

The class sitting and absorbing some visual and non visual stimuli from this calming Japanese sculpture.

Cameron in front of an abstract alto sax.

Sam enjoying the museum guard sculpture.

More Good Links

Platonic Solid Art

make projects- how to construct neat things

Math Mondays Geometry in the World

geodesic chicken coop

Historical Inventions Day Two

Cross bows that work, gears made of wire, and much much more...

Drafting SCHEMATICS & Blueprints

Pontoon Boat Blue Print

Today we used drafting techniques to create schematic drawings and blueprints that each incorporated two simple machines made of recyclable materials. Then we constructed these functional machines and put them in motion.

Drafting a Double Juicer!

Schematic of that Juicer

Cam's car Design

Pulleys are useful to make fruit carton car-wheels turn.

Sam's Blueprint for an invention using three simple machines.

Deep in Concentration 

Near the end of class we had a mini crit to talk about what we had learned while we where building our compound machines and how we can apply those skills to the next project.

Sprite bottle catapult design.

The Catapult Twins