Team:Family/brushboots

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Family/brushboots
Person Responsible Solata10
Status work started
Type workshop
Location in a tent with tables
Age groups
  • 3-6 year
  • 6-9 year
  • 9-12 year
Date and Time Monday at 1-2 hours
Budget Required 100
Budget Granted 100
Comments


  1. Hack your toothbrush

lets create simple robots from old toothbrushes. (we will also have a bunch of vibrating motors, batteries, battery holders and switches for anyone not bringing their old toothbrush)

Age groups

Kids from 3-6 (or 9?) should come accompanied by parents

Time required

1 hour should be fine so everybody has a chance to finish their bot, most kids will finish early

Materials required

  • vibrating motors (1 per kid) [0.5-1 eur per motor)
  • battery + holder + switch + wires (1 per kid) [0.5-1 eur per battery)
  • brushes, cardboard, plastic cups, pencils, wire, .... to make the bot look amazing [0.5-1 eur per kid]
  • scissors, glue, tape, color paper, colors, ....

we can put 4-6 kids at one table to share the materials (scisors, glue, tape, colors ...)

for budget of 100eur we can cover 50 kids

Materials arranged

  • motors, batteries, holders, wires and switches: solata10
  • cardboard, plastic cups, pencils:
  • scissors, glue, tape, colors:

Angels required

We need 2-3 angels (or kid angels) to help spread the materials and assist to anyone having problems.


Status

- wiki page written - materials ordered


Howto: Buildup

  • TODO: Where to get the stuff from?
  • no additional voulenteers needed, the ones running workshop can prepare the place 30-15 minutes in advance.
  • gather all the materials
  • prepare multiple tables so kids can be aranged in groups and share basic tools like scisors, glue, tape, ...

Howto: Teardown

  • kids can keep their robots
  • cleanup the space, put tables and shared materials back where we found them
  • no additional voulenteers needed, the angels who help run the workshop can help teardown