STEM Project
STEM Project
Last Christmas, Adam got a Meccano set which could be built into any number of things and, considering how much time I had spent playing with Meccano growing up I was probably more excited than Adam to put it together! Fast forward 11 months and it was still only half-built with him looking at it on an ad-hoc basis but with the instructions being that little bit too hard to follow.
At this same time, Emily has been craving a bit of attention and so, with Adam not showing any signs of finishing this project, I asked if me and Emily could finish it off for him, to which he agreed.
What I thought might be a nice half-hour with Emily turned into a two hour exercise in deciphering Engineering drawings and when Emily chose to take it into school for show-and-tell, she thoroughly deserved the credit and I finally understood why Adam didn’t manage to finish it! Meccano is far harder than I remember and my chunky grow-up fingers just aren’t built for it any more!