Back to School

Originally posted 9/28/2011

Believe it or not, we are half way through our 5th week of school already.  The summer flew by, now the month of September is drawing to close already! This month has been packed with activities for the students to get to know each other and learn team building.  The first week of school we had Friday Challenges.  There were several activities that groups of students rotated through (one of which was a Q Tip War, pics below), learning how to work as a team while getting to know each other.  Great back to school ice breakers!

Ready, Aim, Fire!

The next couple weeks of school were spent creating cargo ships for the Cargo Ship Challenge.  Once again, the teams joined together to build Cargo Ships using dried spaghetti, hot glue, and aluminum foil.  The goal was to see how many golf balls each ship could hold before sinking in a pool full of water.  I have to say, these ships were pretty impressive!  How many golf balls do you think the winning ship held?  36! 36 golf balls! Not too shabby.

Loading the ship up with golf balls

Fancy Cargo Ships

Ship Builders

I think we all managed to get back into the swing of things pretty quickly here and I know we're all looking forward to more CLC fun in the coming months!