Day 13: Friendship Chains

Today was our third mentor Wednesday! We started off the day with a mentor activity, something we like to call #paperchainz. We got into our mentor groups and wrote things we liked about ourselves and our peers on slips of paper and we connected those slips of paper into chains and we plan to hang the chains around the room. We had so much fun doing this activity! We then broke up into our groups from yesterday for a lesson on Arduino-- a coding language that combines the circuitry we talked about yesterday with the programming we talked about on Monday with Scratch. We then had a lunch of pizza and s'mores bars made by a family member of one of our students (which were delicious, thanks to Hannah's sister!) on Macmillan field outside. We came back inside and went down to the computer lab to start actually working with the arduino software. We worked through the arduino activity, which involved programming an LED to turn on, to blink, and using a button to make something happen. We came back upstairs to listen to a talk from our advising professor, Professor Haberstroh, a female biomedical Engineering professor at Brown. She gave us some helpful tips about preparing for college and study habits. Today was a really fun day with a lot of learning-- tomorrow we'll finish up talking about arduinos and work on 3D printing and SolidWorks, a Computer Aided Design program. We can't wait!