Perspective (again)...

This morning, the local Arizona weather weasels were calling it, "windy."  Well, there is plenty of dust in the air.

In Arizona: 13mph = windy.
In south Texas: 13mph = nearly calm.

We helped in Steph's class again today.  They are getting down to the wire on their Gravity Cruiser projects, and a few of them had cars that wouldn't move.  Others hadn't gotten in a decent test.  Today, we got them to the point where everyone's car moved  Most of them who were already moving we getting better distance.  And, that is the point.

Next Tuesday, they will have their classroom competitions.  Thursday will be their school competitions.  We offered our help on Tuesday, and had already committed to Thursday, for the finals.  "Committed" is a good description.

Just for fun, Joan built another car last night...

No, it won't be used in the competition - Steph can use it next year as an example of another design.

Joan was tuckered out after our time with the kids yesterday.  Today was my turn: my ass was dragging by the time we finished.  The previous rule was: one adult had to be over-seeing each team testing in the hallway.  To get through all of them that were ready to make their final tests, I was doing up to three teams at a time... I had 'em going different directions and starting from different points.  Only one head-on collision.  ;-)

Rufus was ready for some patio time when we got home...