How did the chance to try again make you feel? It made me feel like I could improvise my plan.
How did the chance to try again help your team? Or hurt your team? Last time I didn’t really try my hardest so getting to do it again meant that I could try my best this time. And now this time we actually did the challenge and it actually worked!
What have you learned about yourself as a team member? Sometimes I get off track or just give up instantly and now I think I might work on trying my hardest like today and stop getting off track.

When I started ETC this year I didn’t have a growth mindset and I wasn’t participating much. Like in the pringles challenge I kept on getting a fixed mindest and I stayed that way for the rest of class. But now I’m using a growth mindset and even when I’m frustrated now I just forget it and get back to work instead of keeping a fixed mindset. And also now I have been participating more and sharing my ideas more instead of letting others do the work.  Like in the cups challenge I was working good with my partners and we ended up making a big tower because we were all sharing our ideas and participated the most we could. And I had a good time doing the cup challenge now that I had a growth mindset.

What did you think about team building activities? They were fun but hard because most of the kids in my group I don’t usually hang out with. Because of that, I made a bunch of new friends on the trip.
How did your mindset change throughout the day? At the start of the day, I was very scared to go zip lining but eventually realized it would be very fun. And at the end of the day, I was so happy that I tried doing zip lining.
How did you feel as others cheered you on? I couldn’t really hear people cheer me on but, I cheered on others who I know where scared to make them feel better.
How did you feel before zip lining? After? Before zip lining, I was scared that I’d flop and get hurt. After zip lining, I realized that I had so much fun and if I didn’t do it I would have regretted not doing it.
What was fun? Exciting? The first time doing the zip line I was very scared even though I realized it was more fun than scary.
What was frustrating? Challenging? In the team-building challenges, some of the people wouldn’t listen to me and others even though I was talking to them. So next time I would try to stand up even more than last time and make sure that they listened to the whole group.
Was it what you expected? Yes- why? No- what was different? Yes, I was expecting team-building like it was and the zip lining being very scary.
Would you do it again? Why? No, I feel like if I did it again I would be bored next time because it would be the same thing.

What were your biggest takeaways (biggest ideas/thoughts) from these challenges?

That these challenges are a lot harder this year than last year. Or maybe it’s because when we were 5th graders the 6th graders took over and now that’s our job.

What was challenging about these challenges? My groups where with people I’m usually not with. And because of that, we had some troubles.
What was comfortable about these challenges? I always say that ideas are easiest because I always like to imagine ideas before we do the work so I have a bunch of ideas.
How did you work in a team? Because I’m usually not with these people it was very challenging to work together. Some of the kids liked to mess around which made it harder too.
What were your areas of strength as a group? We all had very good ideas. And a lot of our ideas were very similar which made it easy to make our big idea for our challenge.
What were your areas of growth as a group? All of my groups had a least 2 people that where getting distracted or not helping with the group.
What did you enjoy about these challenges? Why? I liked trying to do the challenges and F.A.I.L.ing and then trying again. It was fun because we were always so close before it broke and we got to try different ideas because of this.
What was frustrating? Why? When our ideas broke at the last second. A few times we would be done then at the last second it would break and we wouldn’t have a model of the challenge answer.

• What did you notice or observe during this challenge?

You didn’t only need to click on everything but also we had to search for everything.

• What kind of questions did you ask yourself (meta)?

Is this ever-so possible? And there’s a quiz?

• What was your “aha” moment during this challenge? How did this impact finishing the challenge?

I figured out the word lock and I had to do the super hard quiz with that.

• How did this challenge compare to the other two we have completed?

This one was based on one of my old favorite video games, so I enjoyed this one more than the others.

• What was the most challenging aspect of this challenge?

Figuring out the confusing quiz at the end. (That’s the part that I did.)

• What two strategies helped you and your team the most when completing the challenge? (Use the strategy sheet for this! If you used a different strategy, list it here as well)                                                                                                      Click on everything and search everything.

• What did you notice or observe during this challenge?

I observed that it was hard and we failed.

• What kind of questions did you ask yourself (meta)?

How do I do this and is it really possible?

• How did the time limit impact your ability to solve this breakout session?

It made us fail.

• What were your biggest connections when solving this challenge?

It was really hard like some of the other ones.

• What was the most challenging aspect of this challenge?

Everything.

• What two strategies helped you and your team the most when completing the challenge?                                             Don’t give up.

• What did you notice or observe during the challenge?

We had to think out of the box when answering a question.

• What kind of questions did you ask yourself (meta)?

I thought will Og get his Moms necklace fast enough.

• When did you first begin drawing connections between the different puzzles and pictures?

I never really did, mbernstein did.

• What were those connections?

I don’t have any.

• What were your biggest clues?

The puzzles were a very big clue!

• What was the most challenging?

The 9 letter word one.

• What was your biggest ah-ha moment? Why?

When we learned what the 9 letter one was, it was super hard but we were happy to get it.

• What thinking moves did you use when playing this game (questioning, connecting, listening, observing, deducing, reasoning, etc?

When ever I could see someones cards by going into rooms etc, I would do it.

• How did organizing your information impact your experience playing the game?

When I organized my information it helped me realize who, where, and with what weapon. Way easier.

• Where else do you use these thinking skills (at school, at home, on sports teams, etc)?

If someone stole something I always use my clue skills but the hard part is I need what time was it too.

• When might you need this kind of thinking?

When something goes missing and you try to find who it is.