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Jack had the honor of representing his elementary school at the Iowa State Tech Fair on May 5.
He created a web site for young kids that has 10 stop motion Lego videos that he wrote, directed and shot. Five videos are how to learn the short vowel sounds. The other five videos are basic math fact tricks.
Judges visited each students booth. Jack explained his web site, the process of creating, what went well, what was challenging and answered any of the judges questions.
There were almost 300 students there from all over Iowa and ranged from grades k-12. It was amazing what these kids created…actually mind-blowing and the competition was tough!
Jack received a blue ribbon in his k-12 group “Web Presence.” Which meant that he was in the group to win the overall Purple Ribbon in k-5 Web Presence.
A purple ribbon was not in the cards today, but he was very proud, as were we, of how far he actually got with this project.
(Especially when he decided two days before it was due, to participate and I told him he should try next year because I just didn’t think he could complete the project to his own personal standards in two days. He looked at me and said, “I can do it.” And, boy did he!)
He loved participating and checking out the students projects, but I think the extra bonus was that he got to “hang out” a bit with one of Sam’s buddies, Sam W. which, I believe, Jack idolizes a bit!