What surprised me or impressed me was the huge tent. The first couple of pictures when they were building the floor I thought they were building a house. But then it showed some pictures with a metal frame and I was like “OHHHH!!! It’s a tent”. They had like 3 tarps on it and a layer of insulation. CRAZY! What also impressed me was Scoobadoobadoo that he actually worked. It was cool that he was made out of pipes and glue and managed to work. They brought tons of food even pancakes it was crazy.                       

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I was surprised that there were so many adelie penguins on the reserve. The reserve is for the penguins to have a safe place to hatch their eggs away from people. There are also some birds that will eat the penguin’s eggs if they get a chance so they need to be careful.

I was surprised at how many penguins Mrs. Ellwood saw. The first year that Ms. Ellwood went to Antarctica was in 2004, she saw absolutely no penguins. She went again 2 years later in 2006 and saw 1 penguin. This year (2008) she has probably seen more than 500 penguins; this is mainly because she went to penguin reserve.

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On November 13, 2008 Mrs. Ellwood went to see the penguins. She went with her friend Jean Pennycook, who works with the Adelie penguin project. The colony was located around the hut at Cape Royds. Mrs. Ellwood has been waiting to go and see a colony of penguins. She has only seen a few at a time and going to see the colony was quite an experience she said. There are many jobs to do around the penguins and she got to tag along. “It was fascinating! What little characters they are!” She said. She was there right as they are going to start making their nests so they saw them going around and picking out pebbles for it and she says that most of them are stolen from their neighbors nest. I was wondering when you are sleeping in those little tents are you cold. What do you sleep on? I know that you won’t be sleeping on the ground brrrrrr right in the ice. Do you sleep on a cot? Also when you are sleeping it is probably cold so do you wear your big coat or what? Also I think that it would be pretty easy to get a cold have you gotten one, if not then how do you prevent it?

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Ms. Elwood I can see that you are having a great time! But I just can’t get anof of thoughts penguins. There are so many kinds and they are all in antartic. I’ve learned a lot about penguins that I did not know.

Ms. Ellwood has been in Antarctica since October, but on November 13 she got to see an Adelie penguin colony! She went with her friend Jean Pennycook (who works with the Adelie Penguin Project) to Cape Royds Penguin Colony. Ms. Ellwood got to watch the Adelie penguins make nests out of pebbles, flapping their wings to mark territory and sitting on eggs. She says that it was very fascinating and could have watched for days. Before she went to the colony Ms. Ellwood visited the cape Royds Hut. That was where Earnest Shackleton left from in order to be the first to climb Mt. Erebus. Ms. Ellwood thought that the day couldn’t get any better but on the way back to McMurdo they stopped at an ice cave! Ms. Ellwood sure had a fun day. When Ms. Ellwood returns I would love to find out if she ever would want to study penguins instead of ice. After seeing the penguin colony it would be inspiring to research them. If Ms. Ellwood did want to study penguins which type would she study and why?           

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I never really realized how cold it was in Antarctica. Also I did not know that the lowest temperature in the world was recorded there a low of -127 below 0. When Ms. Ellwood was working on the bot house it must have been freezing because they were touching meddle and all and they were out side for a long time. It must have been very hard work to move in the many layers of coats they were wearing like to move there arms and legs I know that I would have gotten tired. The coldness affects her a lot like when she was building the bot house of course and also when she is doing everything else out side such as diving, walking, and working.

I have been researching MRS. Ellwood and she is very interesting she and the other scientist have been setting up a tent for them and the bot. They had to put up lots of different pieces to connect the huge tent they have been calling it ribs because when the outside was set up it looked like ribs. The scientists have all been working very hard and are doing a very good job. They have been collecting data and keeping track of all the important things keep up the good work. I would like to get the chance to ask MRS. Ellwood if they all are able to stay warm at night. It seems like it could get very cold. There are many things we wood all like to ask MRS. Ellwood she is just such a fascinating person to be researching she gets to do all sorts of cool fun things.

Ms. Ellwood was invited to go on a snowmobile trip to Cape Royds to help Dr. David Ainley. Dr Ainley needed help transporting supplies to the research site for an experiment. Dr. Ainley is doing research on penguins. The experiment is to enclose some of the penguins in an area, using fencing, with only one way out. In the opening there is a “weigh bridge” that measures the penguins’ weight when they cross it and go back to their nests. They use this method to weigh the penguins with out having to handle them. 

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Ms. Ellwood and the team were running through and packing up their supplies. All their gear is transported to the field by a helicopter. Of the many things they had to pack up one of the largest was the Bot House and its flooring system. The Bot House is made for housing the ENDURANCE robot. The team had already assembled and put together everything to see if things were functioning properly, so everyone had to disassemble and pack up the Bot House. The Bot House is pretty big and with all the metal framing I imagine there is a large amount of luggage, but how many trips does it take the helicopter to transport all of the Bot House? 

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Recently my teacher, Robin Ellwood, went to Antarctica. She has been diving in Lake Hoare. She has been taking samples of the algae mat and water samples. In 2008 Ms. Ellwood’s 8th grade class made a robot for her to bring done. The robot was going to take videos and pictures of animals and the sea floor. They recently dropped the robot in and it worked perfectly. We have been having live talks with Ms. Ellwood every once in a while. She would talk with our school and a couple other schools and we would get to ask her questions about what it is like down there. We also had another talk with another teacher who is going to Antarctica, but he is getting there on a boat. The boat is called an ice breaker, it has a flat bottom which helps it get on top of the ice and then he will crush it. When Ms. Ellwood went to New Zealand she met a woman who works at a penguin sanctuary. She invited Ms. Ellwood to go and she did, she saw many penguins. If you would like to learn more about Ms. Ellwood and her Journey go to http://www.polartrec.org/lake-ecosystems-in-antarctica/journals/robin-ellwood and read all of her journal entries. Also add comments on this page.

WHAT HAS MS. ELLWOOD DONE TODAY IN ANTARCTICA?

In Antarctica Ms. Ellwood and her team were building a “Bot house” for the ENDURANCE robot to live in. They had to make a structural ‘skeleton’ frame to hold up the tent layers. It was very hard for them to move the heavy pieces of frame, but once the job was done it looked quite good. After the team assembled each piece of the rib cage-looking frame, then it was time to put on the various types of tarps. This also was a tricky task because not only did they have to lift the very heavy tarps, but they had the wind blowing roughly into the large tarps, which nearly blew the team away. The first layer they put on was the inner tent liner. Next the team added an insulation sheet to keep the tent warm. Lastly, they added a final cover, or ‘blanket’, to the structure. The “ENDURANCE” team did a great job and the “Bot house” looked very nice. Now the ENDURANCE robot will have a warm place to live!

I like watching the penguins slide on their stomachs into the water. I also like when penguins steal each others rocks from their nests. The reason I think penguins are cool is because they are not afraid of humans.

http://www.polartrec.org/node/6922 What kind of fish do you see there? What do you do there on Christmas?

           Ms. Ellwood is having a lifetime experience being in Antarctica. She has seen many things from penguins to seals. Ms. Ellwood was invited down to Antarctica by a man named Peter Doran. Ms. Ellwood is diver down in Antarctica. SHe collects various samples down in the water. She didn’t see many penguins on her previous trips but this trip she got to see many of them and got clips. Ms. Ellwood is going to be staying in Antarctica for about 2-3 months and some days she has to stay out in a tent. Before she gets to Antarctica she has to fly Christchurch, New Zealand. There she puts on her Extreme Cold Weather Gear and flies down to Antarctica. Ms. Ellwood is diving, she also had her class last year make a robot which will go down into the Antarctica water. Hopefully it will work.

I was impressed about how large the endurance robot actually was. I thought it was much smaller. In some of the pictures I saw it and it didn’t seem that big but now that I see it in a picture with something that I know the size of seems larger. The Adelie penguins also were smaller than I expected. When I saw them next to people I could tell they were much smaller. Sometimes if you don’t have something that you know the size of in a picture then you might not know the actual size of the object. I would like to ask Mrs. Ellwood what it was like to be so up close to all the penguins. If they are really friendly or if they are territorial especially since they need to protect their eggs.

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Penguins Anyone Our 8th grade teacher Mrs. Ellwood was chosen to go to Antarctica this year by polar trek. She has been going for three years as a diver for guy named Peter Doran who has to fund her on every trip. But this year is special because Polar trek is funding her trip it makes everything alot easier for everybody especially Peter Doran. What I am going to talk about in this piece is about Mrs. Ellwood going to see a flock of nesting Adelie penguins. This was very important to Mrs. Ellwood because where she dives under the lake ice there are no penguins and so seeing a whole entire flock of them in the wild for the first time must have been really cool! If you want to see some of he pictures of the penguins or the funny video she took of an Adelie penguin stealing rocks for its nest. Here is the website copy and then paste. http://ryejrhigh.org/antarctica2008/

Decompression Sickness Something new I learned was decompression sickness. This happens when a diver goes into deeper waters, and pressure builds up. When the pressure keeps building up, more of the oxygen gets forced into the diver’s tissue. If the diver stays within the time limit of the dive table’s then decompression sickness won’t be a problem.

http://www.polartrec.org/node/7064 Hey Mrs. Ellwood how’s it going there? I was wondering what would be the consequences if you touched one of the animals on purpose. Would they fine you?

IF WE BUILD IT, THE ROBOT WILL COME.. I liked how the whole team built the housing for the robot. It must have been a lot of work with all the beams and wood and they had to follow so many steps; checking if the ground is level, putting the beams together, lifting very heavy wood, ect.

http://www.polartrec.org/node/7107 I was wondering how well did the 8th grade robot work? What was it really used for? Did you test it like Hal before you went to Antarctica with it? Those are a couple questions I have for Ms. Ellwood that haven’t got answered yet.

Something I thought was really amazing when I read Ms. Ellwood’s journals was the robot that the 8th graders made. I could not believe the stuff it could do and how it worked so well. Last year in 2007-2008 a few of the eighth grade students created a robot that was able to swim, maneuver easily. I mean that is pretty amazing, but it also sends video out and has a working light system even considering how cold it is in Antarctica. Also, the video clips they sent were clear and easy to read. I am just amazed at how the eighth grade students MADE this. I am so impressed! Something else they used to show it was from Rye, NH, S (an 8th grader) drew a picture. It was attached to ScubaDooba Doo. That is the name of the robot (I like that name.) I bet that robot will make some great discoveries. Here is a picture of ScubaDooba Doo at work……….

(taken by Ms. Ellwood)

If you click on this you will go to one of Ms. Ellwood’s journals and read an article on ScubaDooba Doo!   http://www.polartrec.org/node/6881               

I can see the light and camera… Can you? Try to find them.   You know something I really wonder about. Why does the lake ice only freeze 15 ft, but not all the way? Of course I understand the ocean, but the ocean never freezes. So why would the lake ice only freeze 15ft. I just do not understand that. I think I will ask her.

One thing I thought was interesting was how seals aren’t afraid of people at all. Actually during this 2008 trip, Ms. Ellwood and Ian were diving when all the sudden a seal came up to them and started making these weird, but kind of cool sounds. Also seals like to get some air once and awhile, so one day while the team was shoveling slush out of the dive hole, a seal came up and started breathing really loud. After about ten seconds the seal left and its baby came up.
Seals are pretty curious animals. But one thing I think is weird is that you can’t touch seals or penguins at any time unless you have a permit. If you see an animal wondering somewhere it shouldn’t, you are not aloud to touch it or even guide it back to safety. That’s why when the seal was coming up to Ms. Ellwood in the dive hole she had to back away. One example of what I mean is on November 6th, Ms. Ellwood and Ian were in the dry valleys when they saw a lost penguin waddling around. They knew this little innocent penguin was far away from home, but they still couldn’t do anything to help. I hope the penguin made it home.
I was wondering how long it takes to get to the dry valleys from McMurdo Station. I know you schedule helicopter rides to get around, but do you ever walk or snowshoe? I think it would be cool walking on glaciers and hills of ice. I looked at 2006’s journals and I saw ATV’s and I didn’t see and for 2008. I was wondering if you still did that. That would be fun too. www.polartrec.org/node/6544

My reflection on Ms. Ellwood’s Antarctica-This is the first time I have met a scientist/teacher from my own school going to Antarctica, I cant wait to enter 8th grade next year and be taught by a real life scientist that has been to Antarctica not just one time but numerous times. Its really cool to know that Ms. Ellwood who is on the bottom of Antarctica will be in the school! I don’t know I guess I feel like im special to know someone like that. She is sort of a role model for me, but I don’t want to visit Antarctica, I will be an Ethologist and study Cats in South America and In Africa. I also want to be part of the mounted patrol in Africa for a portion of my life to Protect animals from Poachers, it gives me such fury to see animals treated like dirt. Since Ms. Elwood is an 8th grade teacher and she can go to Antarctica (with the knowledge of a scientist), I feel that Im not far away from becoming what I want to be.

Now That's a tent frame!-picture and quote taken by Ms. Elwood-8th grade science teacher

Dr. David Ainley makes some careful notes about his precious colony! -Picture and quote taken by Ms.Elwood-8th grade science teacher.

The lake ice in Antarctica is very jagged and thick. People who want to dive under the lake ice have to drill 12 feet into the ice to reach the water. Then, they have to wear long underwear and a dry suit. A dry suit feels like rubber. It is sealed at the ankles, wrists, and neck. Divers have to put on a very heavy helmet which they have to wear. They don’t have a regulator because there is air in the helmet. Instead of using a scuba tank, they have cords that go from their helmet to the surface into a compressor to fill and clean air. The divers don’t go that deep. They only go about 30 feet down. The lake is very cold. The temperature is about 30 degrees F. The thing only thing that is living under the ice is algae.

 (Hal, under the lake ice. Picture taken by Ms. Ellwood)

Another thing that interests me Hal, a probe that Ms. Ellwood and her team put under the lake ice to collect samples of light and oxygen. The first time they put it down there it didn’t work so a diver went down and fixed it. For a few days in a row they checked it very often to see if it worked. It’s been working fine so they just see how it’s doing every once and a while.

Ms. Ellwood in Antarctica The journal that most interested me was when the adelie penguin was in their camp. They were doing oxygen tests in the dry valleys lakes. This interested me because penguins are not supposed to be in the dry valleys considering there is no food for them to east, or no fresh water to drink. There is no water to drink because all of the lakes in the dry valleys are rock solid ice up to 10 feet thick. They were quite surprised because this penguin was most likely to wander off from the original pack, and eventually was going to die. Penguins will usually eat minnows which are very very small, but the penguins can eat a lot more than just one. This was the most interesting journal entry to me because it talks about animal life, and teaches you a little about where they are supposed to be, where they are not supposed to be, what they eat, and finally what they drink. This journal entry also interested me because a lot of kids like me like penguins, and how they react to a human. For example, this penguin or any other penguin would not run away from a human or land animal because they know that all of their predators live in the water. This journal entry is the most interesting and enjoyable, and I hope you the viewers will read some of Ms. Ellwood’s journals straight from Antarctica! Thank you and I hope you visit her webpage at www.polartrec.org!

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Today i will be talking about Ms.Ellwoods trip to Antartica and what she saw. The one thing that she saw that realy interrested me was her getting to see penguins. And the realy cool part was that the penguin walked right up to her and her camp. But the one bad thing is that this little guy was very far from home so they wish him luck on his trip home.   

         There was an adelie penguin all alone across Lake Hoare! But that is not a good thing because Lake Hoare is far away from the ocean and so the little penguin has no food to eat and it is not likely that he would be able to find his way out of the valley. So Ms.Ellwood called up a friend of hers after the dive to see if she could come and help the penguin. Ms. Ellwood is not aloud to handle the penguins herself because she doesn’t have a permit and her friend does have a permit!

          But she came back a couple of days later to no penguin.  She couldn’t find it. And then Ms. Ellwood got word that the the search team was also unable to make it. So they totally lost the penguin but Ms. Ellwood seems to be very optimistic aobut the whole situation and she said tat in her mind the penguin took a left turn and went all the way back to the ocean and was reunited with her colony!  

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I was surprised that you have to have a permit to touch an animal. Even if the animal is going towards danger you can’t redirect it to go in a different direction. This really surprised me because you can’t physically interact with the animal at all. When Ms. Ellwood saw an Adelie penguin in the dry valleys, she wasn’t able to redirect it out towards safety. They could go close to it but not touch it at all. I agree with having to have a permit to touch an animal. I think you should be able to at least redirect the animal to safety. I do agree that by touching an animal too many times or petting it too roughly might affect it. The permit protects the animals from any disease or sickness someone might have if they touch an animal. Here is a picture of the penguin that Ms. Ellwood found. www.polartrec.org/node/6544 I was wondering why you need to report back to Mcmurdo Station 2 times a day. This could get really annoying and you could even forget. I understand that you need to report back for safety reasons. I don’t understand why you need to do it so frequently.

I was pretty impressed that Ms. Ellwood saw he penguin colony. I honestly thought that she wasn’t going to see any penguins this year. I feel good for her, and that instead of seeing one, she got to see thousands of different ones. I bet that she was happy. Here is a cool picture http://www.polartrec.org/node/6859 One thing that I would like to ask Ms.Ellwood when she gets back is “What kind of noises did the penguins make, and did they seem like happy noises?” I know that penguins make noises, and I kind of know what they sound like, but is it based on their feelings?

Dr. David Ainley makes some careful notes about his precious colony!

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Scubadoobadoo Doo, which is the robot 8th graders at Rye Junior High built. It has been under water and you could see through a T.V and they have a picture of it and you can see one of the divers under water. The Scubadoobadoo is a robot the 8th grade built and it is made of pipe and it have a light and camera so when they go under the can see what ever you point the camera at. It has been on a plane for 27 hours with the other robot they have that is going under water but it is much bigger and it can grab samples for them to look at. The robot that the 8th grade made is not for grabbing samples it was made just for looking under water. Some day the 8th grade robot could be famous and scientist in the future can use it and it will be worth a lot of money. Here are some pictures of thee robot the 8th grade made and the other robot that was with it the hole time on

the plane.                                           

I think that the most interesting journal entry that Ms. Elwood wrote was November 13, 2008. It was about her going to Cape Royds Adelie penguin colony. When she went there she saw penguins building nests, (which they make out of pebbles), mating, sitting on eggs, flapping their wings to mark their territory, and the last thing she saw that they were doing that she thought was funny was yacking up a storm! The other thing that she wrote about on November 13, 2008 was that before she saw the penguins she saw where Earnest Shackleton departed from in order for him to explore the inner reaches of Antarctica. Shackleton was also the first to climb Mt. Erebus. She thought that it was very interesting to see all that. The reason I wrote about those two events is because it sounded like she had a lot of fun doing those two things. They were also very interesting. I think that one thing that I would like to ask Ms. Elwood is that why she doesn’t get a permit. I know that if she got a permit, then she could touch the animals or help guide them if they were lost somewhere. I also think that would be a really cool thing for her to write about in her journals.  

Picture taken by Ms. Ellwood from her online journal

Dr. David Ainley makes some careful notes about his precious colony!

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Something that interested me in Mrs. Ellwood’s journals was the very intelligent ScubaDooba Doo robot that a past eighth grade class made. It was very interesting because it wasn’t a high tech robot, but it worked great! It looks like a box, but instead of a closed in box, it has many thin white tubes that form the box shape. There is also a video camera attached to the top so Mrs. Ellwood can see what’s under the ice, and of course a propeller to move it around.

In one of the pictures in her journal, it shows the robot under water doing its job. In the video she added, the robot isn’t going to fast, but fast enough to do its work. I learned that with a little thinking and time, you can make something as intelligent as the ScubaDooba Doo robot. I think the class did a great job on the robot!      http://www.polartrec.org/node/6881 -this is a picture of the robot!

One more thing I am wondering about is if Mrs. Ellwood is finding a lot of good data about the Algae. I wonder if Hal is working, and if they data their getting is enough information for them understand.

http://www.polartrec.org/ptrecgallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemld=36021            The green cable is the Ethernet communications between the sonde (the scientific equipment package) and the robot.

I think it was interesting that Ms. Ellwood talked about diver safety. I knew that divers would get nitrogen bubbles in their system when they get Decompression Sickness, but I never knew you had a time limit. Decompression Sickness is when you are very low under the water, and since more pressure is on the bottom of a body of water than the top, you will get decompressed. A way to avoid this is that you have a time limit to a certain depth, and if you exceed the limit, nitrogen bubbles start to form under you skin. To get rid of the bubbles is very time consuming because you must go to the surface slowly or the bubbles will be released into the bloodstream and body system. That would probably be extremely painful. Another thing I found interesting was that Lake Bonney had never truly been mapped.It is really cool that Ms. Ellwood is helping to map the lake, and she is charting something that hasn’t been fully mapped! I thought that with all this amazing technology today that we would be able to see through the lake ice. The EDURANCE is really something that could be famous years from now  for mapping it, and Ms. Ellwood is involved with it. I mean NASA might use a robot similar to the ENDURANCE, and if it works, what a thought to think that someone I know is part of a NASA project.

       What is Hal? Hal is not a person in Antarctica, but a robot. Hal is a profiler that collects information about the algal mat. The algal mat is algae under the lake ice that is in the form of a mat when it is packed down. Hal is collecting information about how much oxygen the algal mat releases. You’re probably wondering how Hal got his name. He got his name from the movie “A Space Odyssey” The computer in the movie acts like Hal, that’s how he got his name. Hal lives down under the lake ice. He seems to always have problems though. He works for a certain amount of time and then shuts down. The researchers then have to go diving under the lake ice to retrieve him and get him running again. Sure enough he breaks down again and the process starts all over again. He seems to be working now, but who knows he might break down once again.

Here is some data Hal collected.

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When you go to retrieve Hal to fix again, what do you have to do to make him start up again? Does he stop working because of the cold water of water getting into the robot? I would like to know because once it stops working I was wondering why it can ever start again.

Ms.Ellwood has seen penguins. The little Adelie penguin wondered up to her camp. The bad thing was that poor little guy (or girl) was lost. In Antarctica you have to have a permit to touch the animals, so Ms.Ellwood couldn’t help the little guy. However he (she) wondered off to find their way home. My question is how the penguin got there in the first place?

In Antarctica Ms. Ellwood dives under the ice, that caught my interest. Once when she went diving a seals came up close to her.  Ms. Ellwood is not just seeing penguins and seals though; she is seeing all kinds of fish, algae, and algal mats. Once you get below the ice you can see all the cracks and ice bubbles. Diving is does in pairs for safety reasons, so if one person gets hurt the other can go alert the dive tender. Ms. Ellwood wears a dry suit when diving, it keeps all of he water out. The water in Antarctica is the coldest in the world; I would want to stay warm when diving!   

Antarctica - Ice Caverns I was surprised at how “cool” the ice cavern looked. It looked like there was no land, yet any sun. How ever many years it took to create something so frozen was worth it. The slide was I bit weird because I thought that slides to ice caverns were only in movies, story’s or books. The next image shown is the entrance to the unknown ice cavern found on the way back to McMurdo base, Antarctica. It is quite an exquisite sight to see. If only there was a way for me to be there… The last image shown is the ice cavern from a whole other view. It is the top of the ice cavern, it looks like there is no sun, but there is more than you think there is. The sunlight may not look like much, but there is. I wonder how cold it is there. I can not imagine it, ice all around; it must only exist in heaven.

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I was impressed how they make most of the things by hand like a ribcage. It’s big but they still do it by hand. It takes a lot of work to do what they do like putting the tools on the ice by hand. The campsite and making there ice holes are more examples. And on top of that they to walk to most of there. places but the have sprites to uses also.

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Did you get blisters on your hand when you do all that handy work

I was interested in the penguins. I learned that they build nests out of rocks. I also learned that there is stones In Antarctica?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??! I also learned that penguins rotate their eggs

I thought that the robot the 8th graders made last year was really and interesting. I thought it was impressing that a couple of 8th graders could get together and build a robot, I was really impressed. I was also supersized that the robot worked under the ice I did mot break which is pretty I awesome. They also got permission which to take it top Antarctica .They had to get an ok from McMurdo Station to make sure that they could bring the robot down McMurdo Station in Antarctica.

In Antarctica it looks realy tough setting stuff up. I love the little love stick u add in there setting up. I can see why they call it a ribb cage. It looks realy tough getting that tarp up. I wonder why they had to make this bot house. It must be real hard making it in all that gear.

Rib Cage!!

love stick!!!

that looks very hard especialy with all the gear on.