Despite the short week, science inspiration was all around us as Strawberry students gear up for their much-anticipated gizmo project! Tuesday students got a hit of inspiration from the 6th grade’s Cardboard Arcade projects. Students got to play all the games that the 6th graders constructed with cardboard, circuits, and Scratch programming, learning just how tricky it can be to make even the simplest of circuits behave as intended. Keeping in mind all the planning, designing, and on-the-spot troubleshooting that was done by the 6th graders to make their games run, will aide the Strawberries when it comes time to design their own gizmo in short time!

Also, Temescal Creek 3rd graders joined CerritoBerry for a trip to the Exploratorium! 4th and 5th graders were tasked with investigating all the electricity and magnetism exhibits and were tasked with drawing a model of the circuit (if there was one) and writing an explanation of how the gizmo worked. Many declared this field trip the best yet, and can’t wait to get building gizmos of their own! Click through this album to see more!