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In a workshop using small programmable computers called "crickets," which can be
programmed using a computer language called Logo. Groups of four girls were each given
Legos, craft materials and a cricket, which was pre-programmed with one reaction triggered by a
sensor. When the light sensor of the cricket was covered, a motor attached to the cricket began
to turn. When the light sensor was uncovered the motor stopped spinning. They used the
materials to build magnificent scenes and sculptures, an amusement park with a Ferris wheel, a
cat with moving whiskers and a fantasyland with spinning flowers. The crickets were the
jumping off point for a narrative experience which ending when the sculpture was finished. The
girls saw the sculpture material as flexible, cutting felt and foam to twist it into cats and wheels.
Although they knew it was possible to reprogram the cricket, not one of the six groups altered
their crickets' behavior.



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