Evolution of Western Dance

Today I will write about a website about the "Evolution of Western Dance". The website shows from 1800 to 2000. It shows the orgins of the dancing or music and shows where it starts from and then goes to. It also shows the locations where they start which are Africa, Trinidad Gtobago, Jamaica and India. There is also a place in India called Goa. There also is Europe and more specific locations such as UK, London, Germany, Belgium, Bristol, and Manchester. The other location is the USA and places in the USA like, New York, Detroit, Chicago, Miami, the southern states like Memphis, and New Orleans.

You can use the mouse to move from 1800 to 2000 so that the website shows arrows starting from one point labeled with a kind of dance and going to different locations and labeling where another dance started.

Dance Pad Mania

Angela and I are making a dance pad. So far, we are still figuring it out. Angela is taping the buzzer and the battery to a piece of cardboard. Angela has to restart the whole thing because she taped the buzzer the wrong side up so the microphone out of which the sound comes out of is blocked by the cardboard. Angela and I are planning to make a hole under the buzzer so that the hole out of which the sound come out of is on the side of the hole in the cardboard. Smart!

WE SUCCEEDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOOO!!!!! Now if you press both sides of the battery the buzzer will start buzzing!

We did this challenge after Judy and Adam, engineers and the hosts of DESIGN SQUAD on www.pbskids.org.

Written by: Rubina H. and Angela V.

The Dance Pad for Ants

Today Alysen, Erion, and I made the dance pad from the dance pad mania challenge from Design Squad.

The problem was we created it so small that it was basically a dance pad for ants. We decided to make that our prototype and then make a new one next Friday.

The next one will be a bit bigger and a lot stronger. Alysen was a lot of help and so was Erion with help duct tape and keep track of all the wires. It was a bit challenging to create, but in the end we were happy with what we made. We made it by taking one battery and running four wires to each end of the batteries. We attached two of those wires to a light and two to a buzzer. The light barely turned on but the buzzer worked fine. We the duct tapped everything together and then duct taped it to a small piece of cardboard.