Week 3: WWW and the Amusement Park

After a whole week of building cars that go forward, cars that go backward, slow cars, fast cars...

and racing them all. . .

someone got the great idea that for our culminating project we would create an Amusement Park!

So, in teams of four we decided on our ride and off we went.

Mornings were spent in Anderson Hall working on our rides.

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Afternoons were spent in the lab learning web authoring and LabView.


Science was happening all the time.
(See the experiments for Pressure to learn more!)

When we weren't engaged in experimentation, we were learning how to program our rides. The activities were non-stop. Everyone wanted their rides to not only look good, but run!


Now, this amusement park was a week-long project, and some folks didn't even quit once it was time to go back to the dorm. Once, I came down to see what was happening in the TV lounge and there were my colleagues -- building away!

Tufts was housing several groups that summer, in addition to us LEGO workers. We struck up a conversation with a group from Spain who were studying English. They got quite a kick out of all the LEGO building going on. . .

But all LEGOs and no sight seeing is not what I had in mind. Soon, three of us were taking a break from our building blocks and hopping on the train to Boston. . .

The two-week stay was filled with walks around the city, (we had to walk the Freedom Trail!) a visit to the Science Museum , the John Hancock Building (tallest in the city) and more!

We ended the week running our amazing amusement park, and it was awesome, to say the least!

After two weeks of building together, running science experiments, even building our very own wind tunnel, we developed a bond that made it hard to say goodbye. The whole learning experience was quite enlightening. The trip itself I will never forget...