Day 10: Open Lab

Welcome to Day 10.

This is the last day with the Woven team. Tomorrow, PAL staff run the engineering challenges. For today — you choose.

There are four open stations running all afternoon. Pick what pulled at you most over the past two weeks. Go back to the one that didn't work the first time. Or try the one you missed. Move freely between stations — it's your day.

We'll close with a group photo and a reflection circle. Bring something you made.

📋 Today's Menu — Pick Your Station

Four stations open. Each has materials at a designated table. Sign up at the table with your name, jump in, and rotate when you're ready.

  • 🟢 Station A — Slime Lab Round 2 — same recipe as Day 1, brand new color combinations and add-ins
  • 🟣 Station B — Foley Remix — a new short clip, your same prop kit from Day 2, your call on what to do with it
  • 🔵 Station C — Wind Tunnel Records — your flying objects from Day 4, three new challenges to beat
  • 🟠 Station D — Elephant Toothpaste, Round 3 — 6% peroxide, vary something you didn't try before
A few rules for the open lab:
  • You can hit all 4 stations or stay deep on one — your call.
  • Stations have limited materials. Don't hoard — if you're not using something, return it.
  • Same safety rules from each original day apply. Goggles on for Elephant Toothpaste.
  • When we call the reflection circle, drop everything and come in.
🟢 Station A — Slime Lab Round 2

Same Alien Slime recipe from Day 1 — but this time, get weird with the colors and the add-ins. Galactic was just the start. What else can you make?

The recipe (per batch — refresher from Day 1):
  • 3/4 cup of clear or white glue
  • 1/2 tablespoon baking soda
  • 1.5 tablespoons contact lens solution (the activator)
  • Whatever colors and add-ins you choose

The 8:1 glue-to-activator ratio is the magic — too much activator and it gets stiff, too little and it stays sticky.

Ideas
Variants to try
  • Sunset slime — start with red, swirl in orange and yellow without mixing all the way
  • Marble slime — two different colors in two different bowls, then knead them together loosely
  • Glow-in-the-dark — phosphorescent powder mixed in, charge it under the lights, watch it glow when the lights go down
  • Scented slime — a drop or two of essential oil. Lavender. Mint. Citrus.
  • Mystery combo — pick two add-ins you've never seen mixed and see what happens

Take a bag of your favorite home with you. PAL has snack-size zip bags at the station.

🟣 Station B — Foley Remix

Your Foley kit from Day 2 is back at the front table. So is a brand new 30-second silent clip — different scene, different challenge. Pick a partner or work solo.

The challenge
Watch, plan, perform
  1. Watch the new silent clip on your phone (link from your instructor).
  2. Make a quick list of every sound that needs to happen.
  3. Match each sound to a prop in the kit — or invent a new one with whatever's at the station.
  4. Rehearse with the clip a few times.
  5. If anyone wants an audience, your instructor will set up a quick performance during the last 15 minutes.

Optional twist: if you have a video on your phone you want to score — a TikTok, a movie clip, a video you took — pull it up and Foley it instead. Same kit, your media.

🔵 Station C — Wind Tunnel Records

The Lasko fan and the plastic tube are set up — same partner-holds-the-tube mechanic as Day 4. Your flying objects from last week are saved at the station. Or build new ones.

Three records to chase
Beat the day-4 numbers
  1. Longest hover — time the seconds your object floats stable in the tunnel. The current PAL record is on the whiteboard.
  2. Most controlled spin — design an object that intentionally spins in place inside the tube. Count rotations per second.
  3. Two-object showdown — get two objects into the tunnel at once and watch them fight for airspace. Who wins?

Write your name and your record on the whiteboard. The top score in each category at 2:45 wins something small.

🟠 Station D — Elephant Toothpaste Round 3

The outdoor station is set back up. 6% peroxide is at the tray. Yeast packets and prepped bottles are inside. Goggles + gloves on, just like Day 5.

This time, you control the variable. Pick something you didn't try last week.

Pick one (or design your own)
Variables to play with
  • Two yeast packets — more catalyst, more foam? Or just faster foam? Predict before you test.
  • Ice-cold water instead of warm. What happens to a sleeping catalyst?
  • Twice the soap — bigger foam, or just thicker foam?
  • Two bottles at the same time — one warm, one cold. Side by side. The visual comparison is the whole point.
  • Custom colors — layer 3 colors in the bottle, see how the foam streaks form

Predict first. Then run it. Then explain to someone else what you found.

🤝 Closing — Reflection Circle + Group Photo

Stations close at 2:30. We pull chairs into a circle. Bring something you made these past two weeks — a shirt, a slime bag, your suturing kit, a sketch of your dream home, your Foley prop, whatever.

Reflection Circle
Round-robin — every person shares

One at a time, around the circle. Each person answers one question:

"What's the one moment from the past two weeks you'll remember?"

Keep it short — a sentence or two. Hold up what you brought if it's part of the story. No one passes. We all show up.

Group Photo
All 15 of you, plus your stuff

After the circle — group photo. Everyone hold up whatever they brought. PAL staff takes a few shots. You'll get copies.

This photo is the record that this group of 15 people built robots, designed houses, sutured wounds, dyed shirts, and rebuilt a 55-second anime clip from scratch — together. That's not nothing.

💭 One Word — The Whole Program

Last one. Share one word that describes the whole two weeks. Not today. The whole thing.

You did all of this. Ten days. Slime, anime, water chemistry, wind, fire (kind of), architecture, soccer robots, battle robots, surgical sutures, and one final open lab. You showed up. You tried things that didn't work. You tried them again until they did. That's the whole game. Keep doing it.

— The Woven team

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