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Re: Ideas for my Gold Award Project

First, congratulations on getting this far in Girl Scouts - as a proud father of a Gold Award scout and FIRST alumni, I know it takes a lot of sustained effort and dedication.

Ideas blatantly plagarized from a workshop team 103 did for Girl Scouts as part of a "Digital Divas" day in 2002:

Electrical
- show participants how to build basic series and parallel circuits with a battery, switch, light bulbs and small motors (finally - a good use for the Mabuchi motor!). Use a breadboard for this to make it easy to make connections. Try putting circuits together wrong and have participants troubleshoot them;
- use the Mindstorm kit to learn concept of computer inputs and outputs;

Programming
- use Mindstorm kit to program simple motion and input/output such as start, go until it hits something, stop and reverse;
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