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Quick story: Tracy and I went caving today with some first-time cavers and we saw these Larissa Phillips of Colorado Springs, who set a new women's record for CaveSim. Thanks again to everyone who supports us - you help us to teach kids like Anna to follow their dreams. As we always tell kids, if you're willing to learn and work hard, you too can build cool things like CaveSim. We enjoyed having Anna over because we believe in inspiring young people to follow their passion, whether that be electronics, science, art, or something else. She also got to watch her voice make waves on the oscilloscope! She is wearing a helmet because she enjoyed CaveSim so much that she didn't want to take the helmet off! She learned about various electronic components, and about how they're like the plumbing in her house. In the picture above, she is talking with me about the electronics of a voice module. She explored CaveSim, which has voice modules (the modules say things like, 'Please do not shine your light on the bat!') The modules are the same ones that she could use for her project. When I heard about Anna's project from her dad, I invited them to the CaveSim lab to learn about electronics. Before she had ever heard of CaveSim, she decided that her project would be to build a voice recording / playback device to help her remember to do things. We love using CaveSim to teach kids about a wide variety of subjects (almost every subject you can think of ties into CaveSim: science, technology, engineering, math, archaeology, history, geology, biology, ecology, chemistry, art, and even physical education).Д¬olorado Springs School (CSS) students visit CaveSim ДЄnna came with her dad to visit the CaveSim mad scientist lab to learn about electronics for her school innovation project. If you're a teacher or if you're interested in our cave education programs, check out our new programs brochure. Some of the teachers even got to see lampshade spider webs. They grew cave formations, and they worked at mineral identification.ДЄfter the CaveSim and science station work, we went to Cave of the Winds to explore a real cave on trips led by Dave and Tracy (thanks to Cave of the WInds for allowing us to be tour guides for the day!) The teachers built on what they learned earlier by seeing real beaded helictites, corrosion residue, joint-controlled cave systems, shields, and more. In the process, the teachers learned about lampshade spiders, Golondrinas swallows, micro-habitats, corrosion residue, and a host of other speleological topics.ДЄt Tracy's science stations, the teachers created miniature sinkholes. Highlights of the CaveSim portion of the program included cave survey work for a few teachers, along with searches by other teachers for archaeological artifacts and ecological evidence within CaveSim (thanks to Tracy for getting the terracotta jug). A huge thanks to them for including us in their program. We did the program for the Peak Area Leadership in Science group, which lets teachers earn continuing education credit. The teachers took special trips through CaveSim, did hands-on cave science activities at several stations with Tracy, and took custom cave tours at Cave of the Winds led by Dave and Tracy. How much cave education can you fit in four hours? A lot, as 37 teachers learned today at CaveSim and Cave of the Winds. 37 tea chers visit CaveSim and Cave of the Winds to learn cave ed.

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