Here are a few things we didn’t have time to post over the last year.
Building the tallest spaghetti towers (with appropriately selected marshmallows)
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Who can build the tallest spaghetti tower in the time limit: a teamwork challenge.
Which approach will win? One team has chosen to use a mushed-up marshmallow foundation glue trick; one, an extra strong multi-stranded reinforced tower tactic; one is focusing on speed and sound geometry.
How computers work
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Exploring bitmaps vs vector image formats and designing some procedures to manoeuvre about a grid of obstacles.
Pac-Man
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Left: Pac-Man and some of the ghosts that the Cubs left behind after making them and playing the game IRL.
Cubs learned a little about buoyancy and drag before playing a game where they had to collect sweets while avoiding getting tagged by a ghost.
Remembrance service in Didsbury
Thank you to our Scouts who came out in the rain. I’m afraid our Scout had the Cubs’ flag and our Cub the Scouts’.
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And last but not least…
Here is a picture of our younger members, —the Beaver Scout section—singing campfire songs with Rikki, at our bonfire and games (and AGM) night.
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