Today was our ninth teaching workshop! We made a pot of oatmeal and then hit the road. It’s an hour drive from Perryville to Farmington, so we had to leave the house a little earlier than some of us would have liked (*cough Cole cough). We arrived at Lab Revolution, a teaching center located in a repurposed factory in downtown Farmington. The teaching facility was overflowing with legos, robotics, scrap metal, and engineering materials. As students trickled in, we set up for Cole’s Cosmology workshop and solidified our teaching schedule. We each taught for one hour and everyone’s lesson went well! One young girl came up to Asia before her Chemistry lesson and complained saying she did not like chemistry. After her workshop, however, she had completely changed her mind and exclaimed she loved chemistry because of slime! In her workshop, Asia teaches non-newtonian liquids and makes oobleck.
For my mindfulness and meditation workshop, students were pretty energetic and it was challenging to sit still inside. So, I improvised and led them in a walking meditation outdoors. Our hosts at the facility generously provided lunch for us and we enjoyed sandwiches, fruit, and veggies. I was particularly amused to see the lunch table marketplace! Kids were excitedly trading portions of their lunches with each other. A handful of chips for a jukebox! Two cookies for a bag of veggies? No way!
After teaching, Cole and I treated ourselves to a massage. It turns out, our muscles are really tight! We bought groceries and drove back to Perryville, where we enjoyed a dinner of leftovers. Tomorrow is a short day of riding, only 47 miles!
Thanks for reading,
Maceo
Signing the wall along past SPOKES teams from Stanford and MIT