The fourth week here at the Castilleja Peninsula Bridge site has been full of excitement and wonder. We started off the week with our field trip to S.L.A.C. (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center). Our site director, Mary H, gave the girls a brief background to S.L.A.C. as well as a short vocabulary lesson on some of the words that the scientists would use there.
Upon arrival the girls began asking questions, which fascinated the scientists. From the start of the tour, the girls were able to comprehend the discussions at each station and participated by asking questions. Excited about what they had learned, the girls got back to campus sharing with others their new knowledge of liquid Nitrogen, crystallized proteins, and space.
Our next field trip was to the San Jose Tech Museum. Here, the girls were excited to see the connection between our last fieldtrip, S.LA.C., and the featured film at the museum's Imax Theater about the Hubble Space Telescope. One of our students summarized the film well, stating, "The telescope lets us travel to space without having to leave our home, Earth." They wandered around the museum learning about the biology of bones, earthquakes, robots, space, and genetics. They had a blast and can't wait for our next fieldtrip to the TK Ranch!
The girls also got to work on one of their many interesting projects this week. They began working on their quilt squares this week. They sketched their designs and copied them onto fabric. Similar to an iron-on, the fabric was connected to a material that had glue on it, and when they cut their designs out, we ironed them onto their main square. They will continue to work on them next week as well.
This summer, Peninsula Bridge has flown by, and it is unbelievable that we only have a week left with the girls. We are excited to see what the final week has in store for us!