The lesson for this AAS was Newton's third law, i.e. for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Yeah - like if I slap someone, I can be sure that someone will give me a slap back with about the same strength!! But I don't think that is an example of Newton's law.As school starts early for the morning sessions, the trainers and volunteers were scheduled to be in the school by 7.15am!
And with the price of petrol today, we decided to car pool from the office. I was at the office by 6.05am to pick up my passengers by 6.30am. Even had time to squeeze in breakfast at the local coffee shop opposite the office. Marya, Elaine and Joseph pooled with me.I was not supposed to be in town as I had a trip to Germany, but as fate would have it, all non essential travel was canceled. So I got my original role as the MC back with hardly a day to prepare. I flubbed the opening where the headmistress requested us to sing the national anthem followed by the doa (Islamic prayers). I totally overlooked that and went straight to introducing all the speech-makers, starting with the headmistress. Whoops!!! I think the headmistress isn't too happy with me for that!
We had 150 students to take care of - distributed over 16 teams. 
Some of the trainers said that teaching these students was more difficult than working. 
We even had a few kids crying because after all the effort they put in, their Newton rocket car just wouldn't move. 
As you can see from the people featured here,
the trainers were totally absorbed and earnest in their assigned roles.
Ee Chia was the only one whose ego was a little deflated. 
Some of the kids called her Aunty instead of kakak (big sister) or chegu (teacher). That's Ee Chia in the photo above!! Aunty-ish looking! Haha!!Oh, I forgot to mention the project!! The kids were each given a piece of foam, some sticks, 4 round light weight disks (to be used as wheels), straws, scissors, glue and balloon. They are suppose to cut the foam to a kind of traingular shape, push the sticks through the straw, stick 2 wheels on each end and then stick that to the piece of foam. They would then have to stick another piece of straw to the body, with a balloon tied to one end. Once completed, they have to blow the balloon, put the whole contraption on the floor and as the air escape from the balloon, it will propel the "rocket" in the other direction. Hence the project name - Newton's rocket car. Some of the kids even attempted to place a double engine to their car (2 balloons instead of 1). The finale was to race the cars they made. 1 finalist was chosen from each team.
As one overused cliche on blogs goes - a picture is worth a thousand words!. So I have a few thousands here.
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