Making your own battery!

Every Thursday I have three hours of Experimental Natural Sciences. I love this subject, because you really do learn so many things that are actually in our everyday lives.
So this Thursday we built an actual battery. I never really knew what was happening inside these tiny things but now I do!
First we've built batteries in pairs but they did not produce that much power and were just able to power a tiny light. But later on we combined all the batteries of the different groups and we were able to make one of these silly birthday cards that make sounds to play some music for us :D

Otherwise not that much happened this week. We have a lot of schoolwork to do at the moment and there are tests all the time. I am also practising with three of my friends who play brass instruments for maybe a little concert some time :)

Animation Festival, Wind turbines and Concerts!

This week was the Fantoche International Animation Film Festival in Baden. I love going there every year because you see unique projects made by people all around the world. I went there this Thursday after school with a friend of mine. We were watching a collection of films on the focus of Poland and after that an international competition where you had to vote which one you liked most.. They are all very well animated and nicely drawn films, but some of them are just crazy or have weird stories.. Others though have really well made and touching stories too which made them even better.

But this morning was nothing with sleeping longer on weekends. I had to get up because I went to play at a concert in a music café at the day of education in my school. It was really cool! First of all we played with the music-workshop (the same as at the summer night party) but a bit less funky and more like café-music. After that I had a performance of a Bossa with a friend, me on the piano and him with a Djembe. It was really cool but also difficult to play because the room we played in had such a high resonance so it was hard keeping track of what the other played.

Thursday I always have three hours of Etna classes. It means experimental natural sciences and as the title says we always do various experiments on different subjects. The last three weeks me and a friend were working on a wind energy project. We have a huge fan to make a wind channel on the fourth floor and we got it up to nearly 20mph. In one meter distance we've put up a wind turbine on which we could change the angles of the blades. Then we measured the power generated by the turbine and which angle was the most efficient. It was so interesting!