We went to MIT this week to the Edgerton Center. They have an amazing outreach program for the city of Cambridge, and I did a little research and found out that homeschoolers can access it as well. We did a workshop called flashlight building. It was so fun. Maybe we should do it as a funshop at a conference. That'd be fun!They had to make a complete circuit, but one of the best parts was "shredding the flashlights" and putting them back together so that they would work.
This is the innards of the flashlight. It is hard to see, but there is a light bulb, a circuit, a 9 volt battery and a set of straight and stranded wires all attached.
The finished product. As girly as it can be!!
I was able to make one, too (hooray!!) and I made it yellow and black for Declan in honor of the transformer Bumblebee.
