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| We took over the Art Room for a month to work on these projects. |
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| Game Designers worked together to plan and then create a working arcade game. |
For the past month, Sister Patrice's classes have been spending a bit of our math time working in teams of two or three to make a cardboard creation.
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| Sigh.. if only we had another week for this! |
Janel, Jaden and Elijah worked hard to create a foosball table. The design was pretty advanced! Everyone was sad because it did not get finished in time for the event.
The Game Designers had to make a plan, draw a sketch, and then they had to use cardboard, tape, recycled materials, and paint to build a working arcade game. It was harder than we thought it would be.
Our teacher Lori Borgen had several student Game Designers from her classes, too! They made some really amazing games such as "Plinko" and basketball and a maze, too.
In our opinion, we were pretty creative. There was a lot of variety. Sometimes we had to solve engineering problems. For example, we had to find a way to make the Speed Ball back stay up!
Sometimes we had to solve workforce problems. For example, sometimes we had to figure out how to get along better on our team. Although it took a lot of patience, team work, problem solving, and creativity, we did it. The Homemade Arcade came out great!
Today was our event. It is happening all over the world, not just at Tiospa Zina.
We set up the arcade games in the hallway by the Attendance Office so that the rest of our school tiospaye could try them out.
The high school students really liked the games. After their lunch period, they came over to try them.
They were good at the games but only three people got a "Ball in Cup" win. That one was a real challenge!
The sixth graders convinced their teacher to let them come down as a class to try out the games, too. Sharla came with them. They had fun and did very well.
Some of the adults from the Administrative Offices came out to look at the games. They tried the games. They really liked the "Duck Hunt" game and thought it was very clever! Of course, they also thought it was very hard! It's a good thing no one has to make duck soup, because it was hard to hunt those ducks!
We had two cool basketball games, too! On one, you had to make a shot from far away. You had to have really good aim. On the other one, you had to get a basket and then also get your ball into one of the point cups. It took a lot of tries, but several people succeeded.
There was also a game called Speed Ball. The team that made this one did an excellent job making some of the holes easy and some very challenging. This caused people to want to keep on playing, because they would say, "Wait...just one more try!"
The Middle School students also tried the games. There was one game ("Plinko") where you had to drop a disk and it bounced off tubes. You tried to get it onto a cup on the bottom. You could score different points for different cups. They played that one a lot.
We also had two really good mazes to try. One used popsicle sticks and the other used drinking straws. You had to be a little bit patient to win on these!
It was fun to try all the games. It was also fun to watch other people enjoying the games we made. We felt good about it.
We also felt happy because Darell asked us if we would let him reuse the games for the Halloween Wacipi event.
We said yes because we wanted to help him and because we worked a long time to make them so we are glad they will get used again. If you come to the Wacipi (October 27 at school) you can try the games, too!
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| Engineers have to test and rebuild as they go. So did we. This design got better and better! |
Our teacher Lori Borgen had several student Game Designers from her classes, too! They made some really amazing games such as "Plinko" and basketball and a maze, too.
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| Some clever engineering made the Speed Ball stand up straight! |
In our opinion, we were pretty creative. There was a lot of variety. Sometimes we had to solve engineering problems. For example, we had to find a way to make the Speed Ball back stay up!
Sometimes we had to solve workforce problems. For example, sometimes we had to figure out how to get along better on our team. Although it took a lot of patience, team work, problem solving, and creativity, we did it. The Homemade Arcade came out great!
We set up the arcade games in the hallway by the Attendance Office so that the rest of our school tiospaye could try them out.
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| Some of the Game Designers |
The high school students really liked the games. After their lunch period, they came over to try them.
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| Another top-notch Game Design team! |
The sixth graders convinced their teacher to let them come down as a class to try out the games, too. Sharla came with them. They had fun and did very well.
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| This one was an excellent challenge! |
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| Basketball scores points based on where the ball goes. |
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| Speed Ball was very popular |
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| High School students demonstrate Plinko. To win at the Plinko Game, you needed both skill and good luck! It was excellent! |
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| This maze was made with popsicle sticks. It was very colorful. |
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| This maze had holes. You have to keep the little ball out of the holes as you go through the maze. |
It was fun to try all the games. It was also fun to watch other people enjoying the games we made. We felt good about it.
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| This was one of the hardest games! Only three people got the ball in the cup by rolling it up the slope. Everyone else had to do it by tossing it |
We said yes because we wanted to help him and because we worked a long time to make them so we are glad they will get used again. If you come to the Wacipi (October 27 at school) you can try the games, too!
