ASK+Squadron

__**The Castle**__ By Sara H, Alex H, Kyley C

Week #1 "Brainstorming!" In this first week we thought of several neat, and creative ideas. Finally we all decided to build a castle, but after the first day of sculpting our mixture of snow and ice that we had left to freeze over night was destroyed. This caused us to think on our feet, and quickly come up with another idea. We eventually thought of a hockey rink. We would use a light blue water, and snow mixture for the ice, and then we would make seperate mixtures for each of the lines that we would later put onto the rink. We also decided to make small little nets, to place at both ends of the rink. We also made a boarder of snow and ice, around our rink to help contain the slush mixture.

Week #2 " Experimenting" When we started attempting to make a layer of ice for our skating rink, we had many different problems. We first tried pouring pure water into our boarder, hoping that the water would not seep into the ground. Of course the water did seep into the ground. We then tried to put a layer of tinfoil in our boarder to hold the water, and yet the water still managed to escape. We then tried putting a very thin layer of snow on the tinfoil, and when we poured more water on, the water melted the snow, and still seeped through into the earth. Our last Idea was to fill our boarder with tightly packed snow, and slowly pour water on top making a slush. Thankfully this worked perfectly. The slush froze over night and we were able to continue on with our sculpture.

Week #3 " Finishing touches" After we finally got our base of our sculpture complete (the rink) all that was left to do was create center line, Blue lines, and the goal lines, along with the nets themselves. To create the lines we mixed snow and water to make slush, and added food coloring for the respective line color of that mixture. After we created the slush we packed it down onto the rink, where the lines would be on an actual hockey rink. After that we made 2 small nets from twigs and painted a goal light at one end red, symbolizing that a goal was scored!



Amazing idea... very original. I do have a question how would the sugar cubes melt if it would be on snow?- Ray That would be amazing- Pedro Love they idea. good luck - Kyrie Too bad about your snow mound. Hope you finish soon and I can't wait to see it. - Marcus I like the idea- it's like combining winter with summer... anyway, I can't wait to see the finished product --Ilaria It's too bad your snow mound got destroyed, but it looks good with the ice blocks. -Carolyn This is a great idea. Will you colour it red and green to be more 'holiday' themed? - Huyen Sounds original and I love the idea- Jenna Huge hockey fan so this should be great! I saw the outline for the rink, just wondering how you were going to get the water to actually stay frozen instead of just seeping through? - Nik Carverhill This is such a great idea! I love the fact that you made a hockey rink. Really makes you think of winter! -Megan Tollefson great idea a canadian classic conrad