Candid Student Reports

The following (emails) were written by members of the Modeling Your World class during the first session of the program. Some elements may have been removed for various reasons, but the text that remains is in the student's own words.

Today at Shodor Foundation Inc. we did experiments
 with a galaxybattle field. We alsoread aticles 
on colliding galaxies and on black holes and in 
galaxy we found out if what they were saying 
was true. It was so eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeexciting!
                        - Amos

Today class was soooooooooooooo great.  I learned 
what galaxies do when they collide.  Alton's class 
was gggggreeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaatttttt.

        This is a picture of galaxy 4000002. Galaxy 
4000002 is made up oflittle red stars. Today we 
learned how to make the galaxies. It was very fun. 
We read articles about colliding galaxies and about
what black holes are.  We also went on the CNN 
website and found pictures of galaxies and blackholes.
It was very interesting but I would much rather be 
at home. But I guess its been cool!

                      Matthew and Lynsey

This is what we did.  The diganial point of A is in
the center point of B.  A = Red and B = blue.  A has 
a lot of red but little blue.  B has half red and half 
blue.  As A moves B moves the other way.

THIS IS THE GALAXY THAT MATTHEW & MCKENZI MADE. 
AND WE WOULD LIKE TO GIVE IT TO YOU.  IT IS MADE OF 
BLUE & RED STARS. It is called M&M's Galaxy Picture.
We hope you like it a lot.

                   From Matthew & McKenzi

        This is what happens when galaxies collide. It is
really cool and wacky. All the stars formed 2 star 
clusters which moved in circular orbits. I hope you enjoy 
wacthing it.  william likes your glasses.

                         TOMAS AND WILLIAM