Spooky WildCats!

Hello Wildcat Friends blog readers! We had such a great line up for both the recreational and class time this week! We began our day at Holloway Commons with fun decorations and a group of four of our favorite lunch ladies dressed to impress. Two of them dressed as gram crackers, one was a marshmallow and you guessed it, one of the ladies was dressed as a Hershey chocolate bar and when combined they were a giant s’more! The rain pretty much left us alone until the very end of our class piece when we got a little crazy outside with plastic water bottles and pumpkins but we’ll get to that!

Group 1 went over to Morse Hall to experience Project 54. This is a program for engineer majors at UNH that gives them the ability to use technology in very real life situations. So real that Project 54 has three different vehicles, two of which are inside Morse Hall and have been turned into simulators. One of the simulators, a State Trooper patrol car, has voice recognition. This gives the driver of the vehicle the opportunity to turn on and off lights as well as make phone calls to other stations.
Students were also able to get their driving skills in check with a car that took them through the elements. The driving simulator took students on the highway, through a snow storm and even a busy city. Students had to use their mirrors, which were also screens that showed real life traffic and pedestrians to maneuver through out the area. The tour ended with students checking out and sitting in the driver seat of a New Hampshire State Trooper patrol car.

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www.project54.unh.edu

Group Two stayed over in the MUB area with Nina, a UNH theater student. During this time our very serious Wildcat Friends acted out, danced and mirrored each other, all done with BIG SMILES, who would have thought! Group Two is definitely our group of actors. One of the activities matched two students who needed to mirror their counterpart. This was silly and loads of fun.
For class Anne and Justin, our Wildcat teachers combined forces for a very spooky class. Students were greeted with music playing, pumpkins glowing and plenty of materials to create there own spooky masks! As class went on the very frightening tails took on life as students broke into groups to write and recite there own nightmares. To end class on a striking note students did some pumpkin bowling in the rain with plastic soda bottles and pumpkins.