Month: March 2019

In class Mr. Calvert showed us a video about  a soccer team stuck in Thailand. Using that as inspiration in class we made flashlights. Two of the requirements were that they had to be water proof, so they wouldn´t stop working even in the flood, and the flashlights had to be able to fit in a medium sized box. We made them using PVC pipes, circuits, and decorated them with markers, rhinestones, rubber bands, pom-poms, and pipe cleaners. In the end they looked really cool and worked well. I used mine to finish a book I was reading at night after I had been put to bed.

Later on after being trapped for a bit, the soccer teamś parents were getting really scared. They happened to notice their children´s bikes outside the cave and were able to locate them. Since the rain and flooding was so bad no one could get inside the cave. Expert cave divers from all over the world including the U.S. were sent to Thailand to bring the kids food, medicine, and supplies. The kids and their coach were stuck inside for a little over two weeks, but were finally able to get out and be reunited with their families once again.

In Thailand one day, some kids on a soccer team decided to explore a cave for their friend’s birthday. The soccer coach didn’t want them to go because he thought it was unsafe, so he went inside with them.  Luckily he did because soon it started to rain and flooding began. The flooding filled the cave and pushed the soccer team and their coach over a mile back. They were trapped in the cave with a flashlight and a  couple granola bars, and no one knew where they were.

To be continued…

In class we made sauter people. We made them by taking a wire and wrapping it around a pencil. Using pliers we coiled the wire to make the legs and body. Then, using a sautering iron we sautered another piece of copper on to make the arms. To decorate my sauter person I put pink pom-pom balls around her waist and proclaimed her a ballerina. To finish her off, I cut up a rubber band and hot glued those pieces to her head as hair.