Soldering - how to?

Wishing everyone a very happy new year! We had shot a video on soldering for our sessions few weeks back to make the bcWorkshop participant cognizant with how can soldering be done. Here's this year's very first INVENTION loaded video:



Do let us know what you think of this - the kids just love it though :).

Taarey zameen par

Wow! finally a master piece that does justice in highlighting children's rights to the masses. A right to express themselves in their own unique way, a right to breathe the air around them in complete innocence, a right to develop into a unique individual with their own strengths and weaknesses. A fact iterated in the movie that I have been talking to Yogita for sometime now: "Forcing children to bear the burden of one's ambitions is even worst than child labor". The worst part is that we do not even realize this.

Anyways, we hope that we would not spend umpteen number of cycles explaning to parents on - why a child needs to have his/her own tool kit, why he/she should be allowed to play around with the science products and not be a user like others, why he/she should be allowed to fail once in a while when he/she makes these products. Obviously, it's not rocket science when Kahaan (a participant of our CP workshop) uses sharpeners as the base for the coils or if Sushant (another participant of our CP workshop) asks how can a man fly using magnetic levitation - products have that unique ability of giving expression to the million thoughts that a child gets in his/her mind.

Our sincere thanks to taarey zameen par for giving us a chance in this maddening competitive world of percentages.

Magnetic Torch!

I remember playing around with a rechargeable torch that David Jung (a good friend at Real Networks, US) had showed to me - i really liked the idea that the torch was using no batteries at all and thought we should mass produce something like that.

During the magneto science workshop at our Central Delhi center, I wondered how can we expose to the real life examples of technology to our participants and then i discovered this torch at Mr. Arvind Gupta's toys from trash list - the product is amazing, very easy to make and can be easily professionalized. For all the science enthusiasts, check the below video and make your own:

Weekly Videos: How to make a magnetic generator?

We conducted our first session with our Central Delhi batch last Saturday - it was a lot of fun and as usual the session was over stretched. We had a great time and so did few of the kids - I was getting calls till late in night as some of the folks were still working on generating electricity:

Here's a video for them and others on how to generate electricity using magnets.

Note: This idea has been taken from Mr. Arvind Gupta after his due permission - ofcourse we have made our changes as well.

Please let us know if you have any questions on this!

bcWorkshop Demo Video

We just created a promotional video for bcWorkshops - this video is for prospective participants, school administrators and principals to give them an overview about the program.

Do drop us a line at bcworkshop at buildingblocks dot in if you have any suggestions for the video:

Weekly Video: egg in a bottle

Another one in the series of weekly videos. You can catch us in action whole of this month at BCL and Oxford Bookstores.

bcWorkshops at Rameesh!

We conducted our Sparks and Shocks workshop at Rameesh International School, Greater Noida. We would like to thank Mrs. Shalini Singh (Prinicipal) and Mrs. Archna Razdan (Physics, PGT) for their incredible help in making this event a success.

We had a great time working with these children talking about static electricity and moving electricity in this workshop. We had a whole bunch of experiments, videos, animations, hands-on activities during this workshop. The children ended up creating their own electricity and their very first products. All in all, it was great day of fun with science.

bcWorkshop: weekly Video

As a part of our bcWorkshop's initiative, we will telecast a weekly video every week to show how science and technology concepts can be taught in a fun-filled and interesting manner to the children.



You can contact us if you want us to conduct this at your school or educational institution.

Latest at buildingBlocks!

Just to give you some of the latest developments at buildingBlocks. We have expanded our wings to make science interesting and joyful for the youngsters. Here's just one video to show how can teachers teach the concept of heat transfer to children:



BTW, you check www.bcworkshop.com to see one interesting way to experience science every week.