At the last two IMSA meetings we have finished up the Engineering Unit with an activity called Fusion Express. In this activity the students had to design and create a vessel for a Pringle chip to be shipped in. We also had them create QR codes to attach to their vessel. The QR code has a message for the recipient to scan, read and enjoy. When finished we boxed all of the chip vessels and shipped them off to the Lombard IMSA Fusion Group. We should in return be receiving their vessels within the next week. Now as we all know when things get shipped they sometimes have a "rough ride." So what we will be looking for is how well both schools groups built their vessels and if the chip survived the shipment! Below are some photos of our teams at work building the vessel and the box that all of them were shipped in.
Here are several of our chip vessesls! Sure hope they are packaged safely!!
Inside this box are all of the groups Chip vessels. This will be shipped to Lombard and they will open up the vessels to see if the chip "survived" the trip!
Once we finished up the Fusion Express we started working on our first Code Breaking activity. We started the Cesar's Cipher activity. Cesar's Cipher is a alpha-numeric code and below is a picture of the wheel used to help us break the codes.
With next week being President's Day on Monday we will not be meeting. We look forward to seeing everyone back in room 60 for more Code Breaking on February 24, 2014!!
