Friday evening’s escapade to Morningside proved highly successful. The Imagineers enthralled 17 scouts and their 4 leaders with their engineering magic! I recieved an appreciative email from the scout leader:
Thank you so much for the 3 tables of experiments / demonstrations that you put on for the scouts on Friday night they were absolutely brilliant. I have never seen that bunch of scouts that quiet for the best part of an hour and a half before! Please pass on my thanks again to all of the students involved, it can’t be easy for them especially the ones who come from outside the UK when English might not be their first language. If you want to come back at a future date you would be most welcome. I will be passing on my recommendation to anyone who asks about this for their scout or guide group.
Responses from the scouts themselves “amazing”, “fun”, “interesting”. About half of the scouts indicated that they are now more interested in science and engineering. We also changed how they felt about engineers:
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“Yes, because I thought it was all machinery”;
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“Yes, they are more fun then I thought”.
And, of course they leant something:
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“Pumps make things hot” /”Air heats up when compressed”
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“There is such a thing as a potato gun!”
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“Heat rises”
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“How hot air balloons fly”
Good things the imagineers did/said:
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There were a couple of good double acts on the go: “I thought you brought the cups!”/ “Do you think I can do that?”;
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Good responses to the kids answers “Do you recon that’s right?”;
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A nice turn of phrase: “This is our engineering magic we call science.”
A learning point:
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A couple suggested that the language we used was too easy, and this may because our last event was at a primary school. So I need to inform the imagineers exactly what age group they are dealing with before hand.
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