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The Junior Academy in Ostbevern: (07.57 clock)
"Around 50 talented young people from all NRW currently taking part in a holiday-Akademie in Ostbevern. You live and learn for nine days at the boarding school, Schloss Loburg. How can you pack an egg so that it can withstand a fall from the third floor balcony? Tasks like these are solved by the students of the Junior Academy in Ostbevern. They explore and experiment with mathematical or scientific subjects - and all in English too. These are projects for which the school day usually does not have time for. In the boarding school in Ostbevern the gifted are among themselves, and can learn at their own pace. The eighth and ninth graders, from all over NRW, were selected by their schools for the Academy. Support the the Junior Academy comes from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia."
Dispatches from the Minions...
The second full day
of the academy!
In the morning session of our group we started with
searching after interesting structures in nature that inspire us and noticed,
that every plant and even leaf is a little wonder with its optimized form.
After that we got to know little Eggbertina. She is, as you can notice because
of the name, is a little adventurous egg, that wants to fly over the “Zone of
Doom”, and therefore we need to build constructions, with which Eggbertina can
fly over this zone.
We are going to start on a 6 meter high balcony, and it has
to fly/glide three meters. For the rest of the time we searched in the internet
after nature-inspired flying techniques and thought about problems that occurred
with flying about the “Zone of Doom”, nature`s solutions for them and how we
could abstract this solutions, to build our own constructions.
Suddenly there
were more much more problems than the ones we have thought of!
After the lunch and a break we continued with working
on our constructions. After some time we stopped and told the rest of the group
shortly about our solutions for the problems, we apparently all shared. Four
groups build a mixture of a dandelion-inspired parachute and a straight
construction like the flying squirrel. One group built a plane shaped like the
wings of an eagle, which really looked very good. I think we are going to know,
which technique is the best. And finally
we tested our first prototypes that flew more or less great. But tomorrow we
will continue working on them!
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We´re doing
some internet research for our Eggbertina challenge.
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| Every group tries to construct the best flight device. |
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Our first
prototypes were constructed.
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Our first
challenge: we have to let Eggbertina fly.
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