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Tinkering School Bratislava 2012 – Day 12

Rastislav Geschwandtner — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:44:41 +0000

Well, here it is. The very last day of this year’s Tinkering School Bratislava. We have done two weeks of projects, designing, building and tinkering. Kids have a single day left during which they should finish the Time Machine project from yeasterday’s Day 11.

Kids woke up at about six thirty. When I woke up a little later girls were all excited to tell me that after I fell asleep last night they lit their torches and played cards. Mathias from the neighbouring tent joined them too. So that’s why there was so much giggling and whispering coming from their tent last night. Being my daugter, Pavla knew that I’d quickly fall asleep and they were scheming. Well, I’m curious to see how well will they do with the drills today when they stayed up late last night. Teresa had to wake up and leave even earlier because she is playing soccer for a team and they have a match abroad today. Well, today we will have to do without Teresa and Richard.

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The last day of this year’s Tinkering School Bratislava is over. These were two fantastic weeks that we will long keep in our memories. Kids were fantastic and it was a pleasure working with them. To summarise my feelings and findings and to draw any plans for the future, I’ll allow my self a little bit of time to let the whole think sink in a bit. After that I’ll write one more concluding blog post.

But before that, thank you for following us a keeping your fingers crossed for us. Your every positive feedback encouraged us and gave us strength. Good buy at some other interesting project.

Rasto, Jana and Pavla Geschwandtner

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Tinkering School Bratislava 2012 – Day 10

Rastislav Geschwandtner — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 21:43:31 +0000

I’m happy to announce that we have survived our yesterday’s camping a today we successfully finished this year’s Tinkering School Bratislava. All the tinkerers have survived and they are back in the beds tonight. However, we are a few days behind with our blog so I owe you the report for the past three days. We continued without Daniel who, unfortunately, got sick. Ok. let’s go.
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For more about the derby of the season FC Debarked vs. FC Barked and about how we were visited by angels at night read our tomorrow’s blog post. There are two more days and one more night full of tinkering ahead of us. Stay well spirited and tuned.

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Tinkering School Bratislava 2012 – Day 7

Rastislav Geschwandtner — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:22:45 +0000

Here we come again with Session Two and a new children. Well, save from Pavla who is staying for this session too.
After short looking around and a short talk about our rules we head-jumped to our first project. After our last week’s fantastic experience with chair building from strips of plywood and wooden blocks we decided to repeat the project this week as well. We will make do with cordless drills, one-size screws and the precut material. Cordless drills are fantastic tools and children just love them.
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We saw once again that chair building from plywood and blocks of wood is a marvellous activity for kids. A chair can be anything from a single strip of plywood supported by two wooden blocks as legs to elaborate royal thrones with all kinds of bells and whistles. With this activity children are simply doomed to success. The process is fun from start to finish and the outcome is never the same but always surprising. Matt and Adam are a living proof that a suitable light-weight cordless drill (our lightest one weighs just 1 kg) can be efficiently handled even by 7 year olds. The activity is also a great starter for more challenging stuff where team work is required.
See you again tomorrow.

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Tinkering School Bratislava 2012 – Day 5

Rastislav Geschwandtner — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 21:51:29 +0000

There is a long day ahead of us. Kids are not going home at 5 PM like usually, but rather staying for an evening camp fire picnic and then adventurous sleeping in tents. The weather forecast is favourable – the night is supposed to be hot, so I hope everything goes well… But let’s keep the storytelling in order, shall we?
The kids came this morning all packed for our today’s overnight stay. The bags with tents were just too tempting for kids it to leave them packed. And they wouldn’t by tinkerers if they couldn’t build their own tent.
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There is another challenging day ahead of us tomorrow. The last one in this session. And after a one day break, six more days with another group of children.

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