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Hello everyone! It's great to be back at Enrich. We had a really interesting Affective Domain session. It was about an American 12 year old girl who is extremely gifted and has the vocabulary of an adult! Her name was Adora Svitak. We watched a clip on her on YouTube. Adora was talking about kids who stop pursuing their dream just because they think they can't accomplish it because they're kids. She was saying that the children are the next generation of the world and are the future. children have bold, creative ideas. For instance, if a child wants to make a glass sculpture, they'll just say "I wanna make that. That'd be cool!" Where as an adult would probably say "Oh no, that's too hard and it costs to much money. You're too young to do that anyway." Adora thought that what the adult says isn't right. Children can accomplish anything if they work at pursuing their dream. Here's a great example, Adora published her first book when she was 6!! This is because her parents were encouraging, and rang up a lot of children' s publisher companies who said 'No, we don't work with children." Adora thought it was a bit silly that a children's book publishing company didn't work with children! Finally, one company had trust in this little 6 year old girl, and agreed to publish her book. It was called 'Flying Fingers,' and had over 1000, sales worldwide. So you see, if you work hard, you can accomplish anything! Even if you are a child.

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Kia Ora everybody! 

Today at Enrich we  did a technology challenge. It was based on MacGuyver. We split into groups of three. The technology challenge was about MacGuyver getting stuck in wet cement. He saw a chisel and hammer 2 and a half meters away. Each group had to design and make a contraption that would help MacGuyver get to the hammer and chisel. We weren't allowed to move our feet from a small marked square. This is because we were stuck in cement. If the person who was using the contraption moved their feet their team would be disqualified. 

The equipment that we were given to work with was:
3 full sheets of newspaper
3m of 15mm wide sticky tape
3.5m of string
4 paperclips
1 plastic shopping bag
 In my group was Ella, Sarah and I. We rolled up two pieces of paper and crossed them over to make an x sort of shape. then we taped them together and tied them up with some string to make it nice and firm. Then we tied string onto one end of the cross so we had something to hold onto. Our plan was to throw the contraption out holding the string and that hopefully the cross would be able to catch onto the chisel and hammer and we would be able to reel it in. Unfortunately not everything went as planned, although we were very close to getting the hammer and chisel! 

I really enjoy doing technology challenges and this might be the best one yet...