I can’t wake up early. You can’t wake up early.
So, what we decided to do is push RND back two hours! StudentRND will not be open from 11:00am to 7:00pm instead of 9:00am to 5:00pm. (: Awesome, no? Time to sleep in!
Also, quite sadly, we will no longer be open Sunday. Saturdays are still free for all, though! So come join us for some summer fun!
Congrats to our new VP Business Relations, Dixon Liang, and new VP Finance, Daniel Goundry! Welcome on board, guys! Look for their bios soon on the Leadership page!
Anyway, have you fallen in love with StudentRND after you visited our Workspace? Want to get more involved? StudentRND is currently looking for a VP Workspace. The VP Workspace will be responsible for supervising projects in the workshop and working with other departments to create a budget for the workshop each year. The VP Workspace should also work on independent projects as samples for students who come to the workspace. During the school year and into the summer, the VP Workspace works with the VP Marketing to plan and publicize the calendar of events (such as fun nights, lessons, etc.). Apply here!
Water! Earth! Fire! Air!
These are the four elements of four nations that lived in harmony in the legendary land of the show Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Aang, Katara, Sokka, and Toph journeyed together to defeat Firelord Izo. Now it is your turn! Master water, earth, and air to defeat the Fire Nation! Dundundun…
Just kidding. The competition isn’t really avatar-based, more engineer-based.
The WAL (Water-Air-Land) Competition is a engineering competition during which a three-person team is required to build a boat; a catapult, trebuchet, or batista; and a mousetrap car. The overall winner and the winner of each round will win a prize.
WATER LEVEL:
Use differ…ent materials to build a boat that carries the most weight in pennies!
Scoring: The score given will be the number of pennies the boat can carry.
AIR LEVEL:
Build some sort of launching mechanism (catapult, trebuchet, or batista) that is accurate enough to hit a target — bulleye is the highest score! Each team will launch five marbles from six feet away.
Scoring:
– Bullseye: 2 in diameter; 100 points
– Ring 1: 5 in diameter; 70 points
– Ring 2: 7 in diameter; 50 points
– Ring 3: 10 in diameter; 30 points
– Ring 4: 18 in diameter; 10 points
LAND LEVEL (Earth Level):
Build a mousetrap car and race it!
Scoring: The distance in centimeters is the score.
For the overall winner, each level’s score will be scaled to make each level equally important.
PRIZES:
Each member of the winning team receives a video game!
Stop by StudentRND THIS SATURDAY (June 24th!) at 1pm and join us! (:
Helloooo world! It’s summer in Seattle and StudentRND has apparently gone bonkers for ice cream. This is the THIRD time we’re having an ice cream social event… except this time, we’re not making the ice cream itself — we’re making ice cream masterpieces as well as root beer floats.
Join us this Friday to top your ice cream with junky food or submerge it in fizzy root beer. Maybe try some green tea ice cream with chocolate syrup and strawberries? Who knows!
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It was 85 degrees today! Luckily, we have air conditioning at StudentRND, and to top it off — we made ice cream with dry ice as well as ice and rock salt.
Ed smashes the dry ice so we can use it to freeze the milk/vanilla/sugar mix!
While most of us made ice cream, some with dry ice, some with ice and rock salt, Adam and Marshall proceeded to force the coins into the dry ice, which makes a singing sound (find out why under the Singing Spoon section of this page).
Adam also decided to put the dry ice directly in his milk/vanilla/sugar mix! Bubbles!
