The students kick-off the morning with a blind scavenger hunt lead by the International Relations Team. Three students comprise a scavenger hunt team. One student can only communicate with hand gestures to a second student who can only communicate verbally to a third student who cannot see. As a team, the students retrieve as many objects as possible within a time limit. In this activity, students must work together closely and combine their senses to gather the most “treasure.” As soon below, Doris, Jim, and Reuben are having trouble searching without their vision.
Students in the Hunt
Teamwork becomes the theme of the day as Paula leads the students to their next activity, “Pyramid.” In this activity each student in a group must hold onto a long string attached to a rubber band. Teams must use this device to pick up and stack paper cups into a pyramid. To make this task more difficult, the strings were all varying lengths, and the cups were scattered across the room in locations at all heights. Despite these additional obstacles, Lynn, Reuben, Donald, Rita, Chris, and J had no trouble stacking their pyramid.
Teamwork Pyramid
Teamwork and communication were essential for the final engineering challenge, “Paper Towers.” Students were supplied with limited sheets of paper and given fifteen minutes to build the tallest and most stable tower they could. The imaginative designs ranged from a card house to a space needle, shown below.
A Truly Great Paper Tower
After the morning team-building activities, the students visited the middle school for the first time. They presented their ideas for their leadership and service project to the school officials and several representative students. As seen below, Roy introduces himself and the overall project to the school administration.
SLP Student Leader Group Presenting Final Project to Elementary School Administration
Until tomorrow,
Jia
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