Got the opportunity to particpate in the Girl’s Conference put on by some of the Peace Corp volunteers. They did a four day event in Singida, housing and feeding the girls from I think 6 different secondary schools in rural areas for a total of about 30 girls with the purpose to empower them. They had science talks and experiments, items on health and safety, careers and to express themselves artistically.
I participated in Saturday when they did their science talks and experiments. As part of the section they had them break into groups to draw everday things in their life that have some type of scientific element and to then present their drawing and talk about what it has to do with science to the whole group.
The other part was to do break into teams where they had to work with girls from the other schools to compete in three competitions. The first was pretty neat. They were to make boats from a sheet of aluminum foil about the size of a piece of paper. Not only did they need to float but the competition was to see how many bolts they could hold. The team that won held 39 bolts before their boat sank.
Another competition was to make the tallest structure using paper and masking tape and it had to be able to stand up on its own and withstand a wind test (someone fanned it with a newspaper). I believe the tallest two were a little taller than I am and all of them stood up to the wind test.
Sorry I can’t give you youtube video links, the computer I am using can’t seem to access youtube. I will include links to the google drive location so you can view them their.
Egg Drop Video #1
Steve and Barnabas 