Our biggest news of the week by far is that Helen got her driver's license on Monday! This is a big accomplishment for any teenager, but Helen had to work extra hard because of the corona virus. Since drivers' ed classes were canceled, Helen had to log 100 hours of supervised driving with a licensed adult (mostly Becky) instead. She passed her driving and written tests with flying colors and is happily driving herself around now.
The next biggest news of the week is the beginning of in-person school! Our kids get to go to school for 2 days per class each week. They have a shortened schedule, but in-person school is a big improvement over virtual school. Gibson is in a 10th grade math class so he rides to the high school with Abe in the morning and then walks over to the middle school for the rest of his classes.
At Craterworks, the boys wanted to build a wooden boombox, that is, they wanted to cut out a piece of wood and make it look like a boombox. Nathan took their idea to the next level and is teaching them how to build speakers so they can use their boombox as a speaker for their phones. They started out by building prototype speakers from paper, cardboard, magnets and wire. In this photo are Gibson, Eddy, Andrea, Nathan and Jason.
In this photo, Nathan is explaining how the electrical energy from his phone is being transformed into mechanical energy by the speaker which creates sound waves that are detected by our ears. The boys spliced aux cords onto their paper speakers and then they could play music from Nathan's phone, which seemed incredible.
Helen's first day of school was Thursday this week. She goes on different days than Abe and Gibson and got to drive herself.
Here is our new school schedule for the next 5 weeks. Overall, it is much simpler than the strictly online schedule was. Helen and Abe now only have school in person. Gibson still has online classes on the days when he is not in person
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