The IB club participated in West Valley's annual boat race! The majority of the boat was built during additional meetings (outside of the regular club meetings) either after school or during lunch. The finished product looked... interesting... to say the least but according to Mr. Valenzuela, it wasn't the ugliest boat! We had a lot of haters saying that our boat was going to sink. However, the boat did not sink! Our boat was captained by Captain Hernandez (Myrka Hernandez). At the beginning of the race we were doing pretty good and was in second place for a while. That was until one of our paddles got too wet and was no longer working properly. However, Captain Hernandez pushed through and we managed to place third! We were one of the three boats in the boat race that did not sink and have been awarded the title of achieving the slowest victory in West Valley cardboard boat race history! Shout out to Captain Hernandez for not giving up and giving the boat race her all! We would of not been able to win without her!
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This time this meeting started off with a listening party! We listened to a song that was made as a final project last year for IB Lit HL Yr1 for the book ¨Things Fall Apart.¨ It was a parody to the ¨Fresh Prince of Bel Air¨ theme song about how Okonkwo´s toxic sense of masculinity and gender roles in their village´s society. The person who made the song did amazing, but they wish to remain anonymous!
After that we started discussing what we wanted to do for our boat for the boat race. We already had contacted ASB about joining and had bought all the supplies we would need. We first worked on what the shape of the boat would be. At first we had two main ideas: either a canoe shape or just a square. But Mr. May brought up some important factors we should consider such as balance, how sturdy it is, how it goes through the water, etc. We decided that neither idea was good as making the canoe would require us bending and weakening the cardboard and the square wouldn´t flow too good. After some discussion, we decided on a compound shape, that is pretty much a square with a triangle on top. We also decided on how we would do the paddle. Our first idea was to just tape the cardboard to the hands on the person in the boat, but after consulting the rules of the race we discovered that it was not possible. It was a bit of a dilemma, but after some discussion we decided that we would make paddles by taping together a bunch of thin strips of cardboard to make a solid stick of cardboard. Then we would tape the actual paddles that go in the water to that stick. As we worked, different people were working in different groups. For example, some people were working on the boat itself, some on the paddles, and even some on decorations meant for the boat. The meeting went overtime until 4:30 p.m. because there was lots of work to be done (and there still is!). The next date for the next club meeting hasn´t been decided yet nor the specific days we plan on continuing working the boat, so look out for notifications on Remind with information about those times and dates! |
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