Cadette Think Like an Engineer Journey Reformat
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I won’t bore you with a lengthy exposition BEFORE I provide a link to the download of the Cadette Think Like an Engineer reformat, but keep scrolling below the links if you WANT the lengthy exposition! You’ll have to read this disclaimer first though:
This is a reformat of the Cadette Think Like an Engineer Journey that’s found in the Volunteer Toolkit. Compared to the six PDFs from VTK totaling 135 pages, the reformat is 56 pages. So it’s still lengthy, but at least this will save you some paper. Nothing has been modified, except that the word “SAY” has been replaced with “Suggested conversation,” and I took out some extra spacing that I didn’t think was necessary. This reformat includes all of the handouts with the exception of the Cadette Take Action PDF, which I’ve also linked directly from the GSUSA website. Please note that I do not claim this as my own invention. Basically all I did was reformat this Journey to make it easier to read and also to keep your printer from melting down if you need to print it out (like I do). Here you go!
And now here’s the lengthy exposition that maybe five or six of you might read. Well, it’s not THAT lengthy. We’ve got 8th graders, and between what we have left when it comes to badges and Journeys now that we’re in our third year of Cadettes, the girls picked this one which is what prompted me to reformat it. We’ve only done one session so far, and the girls will run the next two sessions themselves. For the first session, the girls had to create a prototype for a corgi life vest.
Initially, the girls had no problem coming up with a solution to keep a can afloat for 10 seconds, so we gave them some added requirements like openings for the corgi’s legs so that he could paddle. This wasn’t originally specified in the criteria, so it didn’t occur to them to include openings because all they saw was a can with a head taped to it and didn’t think past that. The two teams just made rafts that our “corgi” would sit on which was very easy for them to figure out. So we sent them back to the drawing board with the additional criteria. Here are some pictures!
They seemed to enjoy this exercise, which is sometimes hard to tell with this group. Hopefully the next two sessions will go okay (and they actually prepare outside of the meeting)! We haven’t figured out how we’re going to get the Take Action project done before the end of the year though. Guess we’ll brainstorm that one too!
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