Sunrise Book Review by Lily W.

Sunrise by Mike Mullins - Reviewed by Lily

Umm, so, the series ended.  The Ashfall trilogy has come to a conclusion.  I uhhh, I need a minute to absorb this information....
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Whoa, still haven't absorbed this.  Oh well, I have places to be, things to do, a review to write (and probably rewrite).
So, as I have already established in another review, Ashfall books one and two (the second being Ashen Winter) are amazing.  This series is about sixteen year old Alex, a fairly normal teenager with a fairly normal life, until the Yellowstone Super volcano erupts.  The ashfall separates Alex from his parents and sister and the series covers his struggles with new obstacles caused by the environment.

These books are full of action (for those of you who like that, I know a lot of my friend do!), and even has the seemingly very popular post-apocalyptic theme that seems to make book sales skyrocket lately (a few examples that I love might be Ender's Game, Hunger Games, Divergent, etc.)!!  One cool thing is that the first book focuses on the eruption and the next two are like the aftermath, I mean who doesn't wonder about their favorite characters after a book ends?

Make sure you check out this book at the library soon!

Break It to Make It....but we didn't really break anything!!

This week we took out our old computer parts and ended up making squishy circuits that lit up; jewelry; played with DC motors; and looked at an Arduino at work!  Hope you enjoy the pictures!

Bouquets from the skin of a keyboard

LED and a Squishy Circuit makes for a bright smile!

This isn't really Computer related, but maker-related!  It's leather from the Environmental Center and a button.  Just beautiful!!

We did the ArtBots again, this time with a more powerful DC motor

Leather, gold buttons and a hard drive disc

ArtBot

A Squishy Circuit Bow

Mythbusters

Was it a myth, or not?  Either way, everyone had a great time last night at our Mythbuster Program.  Enjoy the photos!  They are but a small sampling of our experiments....

Future Scientists!

Tornado in a bottle

Eat straws, not marshmallows!

Myth or Truth?

What a great structure....awesome!!

THE EVENT - Mad Scients on Call!!!!!!!

Lily and the Worms

A big Thank You goes out to all our teen volunteers and all the children who participated!!

So, here we are right before the children attended the science program!  We were so happy that they enjoyed the experiments! 
In case you're wondering, we did an Artbot; made a battery turn into a magnet; made a compass that worked; made a throwie (bet you don't know what that is!); blew up balloons without blowing them up; magically cleaned pennies, and levitated a ghost!

In the animal kingdoms, we adopted twelve worms of the night crawler variety.  They were quite behaved during the morning session, however, they actually tried to escape by the afternoon!!!  They were very happy when we returned them to the soil outside!  We respectfully experimented with the worms to see how they reacted when under lights - mostly they wanted to hide!!  Then we tried to learn what type of smells they like or disliked.  They hated the raisins! 

Then we had a Harry Potter potion section with Mandrakes' Restorative Solution; some Harry Potter Magic in a cup; Magic Unicorn Milk, Liquid Enemies (a density experiment); Magic Mud; and Muggle Soap! 

Give the library a call if you want to know how we did these!  Meanwhile, enjoy the photos!!! 

Making a "ghost" levitate

Being a Sneaky Throwie!

Before the Exploding Elixar!

Mad Scientists in action!

Last Monday, the teens got together to work on their science experiments that they are presenting to school age children later in the week.  We worked very hard - and had a great deal of fun!! 

Mandrake's Restorative Solution in the making....

Magic Mud!

A battery is turned into a magnet

The ARTBOT!!!!

Magic Unicorn Milk makes you make faces!!

We survived the Zombies!

Lest you think the zombies got all of us (because I haven't posted in a while), be reassured that we survived.  Nineteen teens stopped in and created secure containers for their own home survival kit.  Check out the nifty resources at the CDC www.cdc.gov/phpr/zombies.htm.

Then we used our catapults on our zombie village!  Enjoy the photos!!

This is the back of the village...containers are being made on the other side of the room

Ready, Aim......or eat marshmallows...

Some cool zombie reading!!

Yeah Morgan...even with her cast, she stopped in to play!

Summer Reading - Zombie Style

 Stop in Monday, June 9, @ 6PM for our first teen/tween meeting for Summer Reading!

Please register.  Call us at 838-2394 or go to our website www.lcplin.org and look for the calendar.

We'll be looking at how to survive all kinds of disasters, plus, we have a Zombie Village, Zombies and catapults to try and hit the Zombies with.  

Plus some good zombie food!

We're looking for you!!!!