Liks Prize

But her mommy is yelling, "No!" And her daddy has told her to go. But her friend is nowhere to be seen. Now she walks through her sunken dream to the seat with the clearest view. And she's hooked to the silver screen, but the film is a sad thing for But she's lived it 10 times or more. She could spit in the eyes of fools if they ask her to focus on the stage. Fighting in the dance hall, oh man, look at those game windows. It's the making of shows. Take a look at the logo.

Hola, ¿cómo están? ¿Cómo están?

Ay, estaba en mute.

La frase 20-20. ¿Cómo están? ¿Cómo están, Licks?

Muy bien, muy contentos, increíble, muy contentos, igualmente, igualmente, muy contentos y emocionados del Lix Prize.

Padrísimo, qué padre de que hoy ya vamos a dar el lanzamiento de este nuevo programa para todos nuestros tinkers, para todos nuestros Wayaks que forman parte del Lix Online Schooling 2020-2021. Estamos muy contentos de esta nueva aventura que les vamos a presentar para que puedan conocer cómo es que los tinkers y guayabs pueden ser parte de esta nueva gran aventura. Y para esto me acompañan nuestra montaña del Mindset Leaks, que muchos de ustedes ya los conocen. Nos acompaña Ana, que es nuestra sherpa de STEAM y emprendimiento, y Roberto, quien es nuestro sherpa de experiencias. ¿Cómo están, Ana? ¿Cómo están, Ro?

Hola, muy bien.

¿Ustedes?

Muy bien, pues muy contentos, muy emocionados.

De estar aquí.

Aquí ya vemos a todos en los comentarios que están súper ansiosos de poder conocer de lo que se trata el X Prize.

Sí, hay gente de todas partes.

Saludos desde Acapulco, por ejemplo.

Saludos de Acapulco.

Ya te chulearon hasta nuevo look espacial, Ana.

Es que todo fue por el X Prize, dije me voy a poner como si estuviera aquí.

Qué padre, qué padre, padrísimo. Pues bienvenidos, buen provecho a todos los que acaban de comer. Saludos a todos en las diferentes partes de México que nos están viendo. Y pues vamos a empezar, Ana. Estoy muy emocionado de presentar a toda la comunidad Licks este nuevo proyecto, el Licks Prize.

Padrísimo, padrísimo, querido Adolfo. Pues sí, pues vamos a comenzar. Básicamente lo que estamos viendo hoy es que vamos a tener el lanzamiento de Licks Prize, que son experiencias inspiradoras para el aprendizaje para nuestros tinkers y guayas que están ahorita en Licks Jam. ¿Qué les parece?

Padrísimo, me encanta.

Pues porque queremos que las niñas y niños se sientan, se sientan que tienen que ser e insistan que tienen que ser la mejor versión de ellos mismos. Yo creo que sabemos que los tinkers y los guayaks no están satisfechos con lo que pasa en el mundo ahora y que saben que tienen que hacer algo para transformarlo. Y como ellos saben que tienen que hacer algo para transformarlo, sabemos que podemos crear mejores cosas y esto se va a llevar a cabo a través de el Lix Prize. Por eso les damos la bienvenida.

Bienvenidos. ¿Qué crees que es el X Prize entonces, Adolfo?

Pues el X Prize, por ahí lo que me han platicado y un poco de la razón por la cual estamos creando este proyecto, es que sea una experiencia donde todos nuestros tinkers, todos nuestros Wayaks, nos puedan demostrar todas las capacidades que cada uno de ellos tienen a través de la solución a diferentes retos. Lo que queremos con el X Prize es que todos los tinkerers, todos los YX que forman parte de Leaks le demuestren a todo el mundo de la capacidad, del poder y de que haciendo las cosas con mucha pasión se puede cambiar el mundo. Entonces lo que queremos es que a través de las soluciones a diferentes retos que les vamos a poner, ellos realmente se sientan capaces y se identifiquen que están en una misión súper importante. ¿Qué te parece, Ro?

No, me encanta.

Y además estoy seguro, y algo que me fascina del proyecto es que es algo muy Leaks. No, como en Lix, como ustedes saben y como lo han vivido estas semanas, nos encanta divertirnos y aprender.

Entonces Lix Price tiene todo eso.

El chiste es pasarla bien, trabajar en equipo, ser creativos, divertirte, y en el proceso, como siempre, llevarte muchísimo, muchísimo conocimiento.

Eso que comentas, que será donde los niños ponen a prueba sus conocimientos, ¿no?

Correcto. Y eso, y eso que comenta Rode, de divertirnos, de disfrutar el proceso. Creo que es lo más importante del, del Leaks Prize. Queremos que sea una experiencia donde todos realmente estén disfrutando todo el proceso, no se estresen por algo, no se preocupen por otra cosa, sino que realmente se diviertan. Si se equivocan, no pasa absolutamente nada. Vamos a aprender muchísimo y es lo que queremos.

Me encanta, me encanta.

Ya veo que por aquí hay niños de todos lados, de todos los, de todos los años, de quinto, de tercero. Pues déjenme les platico que este programa se va a dividir en 3 etapas. Vamos a tener 3 etapas diferentes. Para esto les voy a platicar de qué se trata cada etapa y así no se preocupen tanto. Entonces tenemos las 3 etapas, son como quien dice, tenemos 2 preetapas y luego el comienzo ahora sí del Express. Del Express ahorita en septiembre, octubre septiembre, octubre vamos a tener la preetapa donde vamos a tener como las etapas 0, stage 0, donde vamos así tener este, este reto donde les vamos a ir dando lecciones semana por semana, pero no es obligatorio. ¿Qué se refiere con que no es obligatorio? No va a impactar en tu curso, en sus calificaciones, pero sí con sus maestros estamos hablando para que los que estén en el X Prize tengan un reconocimiento especial por haber estado, pero va a ser a favor, no, si no, si no hacen algo no va a pasar nada, pero los invitamos a que no, porque no sea obligatorio, no lo hagan, ¿sale? Igual va a pasar en noviembre, diciembre. ¿Qué va a pasar en estas dos etapas? Vamos a poner dos retos para que vayan calentando motores, vamos a poner dos retos y lecciones entre cada reto, y ya para enero vamos a sacar nuestro Licks Prize Real, donde va a ser un gran concurso donde sí vamos a tener que evaluar, donde vamos a tener algo que se llaman las Genius Hours. Las Genius Hours va a ser una hora a la semana donde ustedes van a tener tiempo de creación, pues, entre comillas obligatoria, porque pues sí va a ser parte de la clase, pero vamos a tener estas horas donde van a mostrar su 20% de creación. El 80% va a ser de LICS es pues toda la parte de las clases y el otro 20% pasión. Entonces, ya que les expliqué, si van teniendo dudas pueden dejarlo en sus comentarios. Y si yo me falta algo, como que me salté algo, los otros, los otros que están por ahí me pueden decir, Adolfo o Rosy, ven que algo no, alguien este no entendió algo. Y para esto vamos a tener, para este stage, para la primera stage, el stage 0, vamos a tener pues diferentes lessons, vamos a tener diferentes lecciones. Ahorita les voy a explicar por qué está en inglés, está en inglés, ya les voy a decir, mejor no les digo, al final les digo, al rato que ya toque por decirles les digo, pero ahí van a ir sabiendo por qué está en inglés. Pero básicamente vamos a tener varias etapas, la primera etapa es el 24 de Vamos a tener diferentes lecciones de aquí a que empiece noviembre. Del 24 de septiembre, pues hoy tenemos la primera lección. El 24 de septiembre vamos a tener otra lección donde les vamos a enseñar a hacer un science journal. El 1 de octubre vamos a aprender a hacer pues una lección relacionada al video que vamos a ver hoy. El 8 de octubre vamos a aprender a hacer prototipos. El 15 de octubre vamos a aprender de conceptos, conceptos de algo que se llama las máquinas simples, también relacionado con lo que vamos a estar viendo hoy. El 22 de octubre vamos a tener un tiempo de creación en conjunto.

El 29 de octubre vamos a enseñar todo el challenge y vamos a enseñar los vídeos que nos hayan mandado.

Vamos a enseñar a las personas que hayan participado y sobre todo pues a reconocer esos proyectos que hayan sido pues los que para toda la comunidad o para Ligs son sobresalientes y hay que resaltar. Entonces pues en noviembre empezamos otro challenge y cada semana a la misma hora, en el mismo lugar, en el mismo canal, vamos a tener este challenge. Entonces cada semana a las 4:30 nos vamos a ver para tener una lección como la de hoy. Básicamente como si estuviéramos viendo, yo creo que un reality, podría ser un reality en el que pues nos estamos viendo y están viendo una clase, pero también estamos compartiendo con ustedes todo.

Entonces, so let's talk about the first challenge.

¿Por qué vamos a hablar inglés, Adolfo?

Okay, so we will be talking in English because this prize, it's all about in English. So all the thinkers and all the Yaks at Leaks will be learning all the challenges that we will, um, that we will put in the Leaks prize, and they will make these presentations in English. So in this challenge, in order to participate in this challenge, all the thinkers and all the Yaks need to put in action collaboration critical thinking, communication, and creativity. Okay, and we will know the first— and we will know about the first challenge in the next slide.

Okay, Spanish.

Spanish. Les vamos a dar una pista por clase que les vamos a decir esa pista la tienen que poner en su proyecto. O sea, hoy les digo la pista de hoy es, no sé, cualquier cosa, una caja. Y si la pista de hoy es una caja, entonces en su proyecto tienen que poner una caja. No, esa no es la pista de hoy, se tienen que esperar hasta el final para saber cuál es la pista. Y tenemos que ir pues encontrando las pistas, entonces tienen que esperarse hasta el final para saber cuál es la pista. De cualquier forma, vamos a grabar todas las sesiones y se van a quedar aquí en Facebook. Claramente es mejor verlo en tiempo real porque en tiempo real podemos contestar sus preguntas y sus dudas. Entonces espera al final de cada lección para poder descubrir cada pista y van a ir llenándose cada lección.

Esto es para entonces usar en su proyecto.

Si ustedes no entienden un concepto, lo pueden escribir ahora y después buscarlo. Y los conceptos nuevos normalmente van a estar en negritas. Si no los ven en negritas, pueden anotarlo, pueden buscarlo. Y también vamos a pedir aquí el apoyo de los papis, porque pues si hay un concepto que no entienden, igual estaría padre que nos ayudaran a explicar, ya que como este no es una sesión en vivo, bueno, es live, pero no estamos uno a uno, pues nos pueden ayudar mucho a que les expliquen algún concepto. Pero todo lo que vamos a ver aquí va a ser súper, súper didáctico, súper interactivo. Entonces pues se va a pasar muy rápido el tiempo.

Creo que esto que comentas, Anita, de la parte del apoyo también de los papás, queremos que sea un reto. Que aquí, como preguntan, este reto es desde primaria hasta preparatoria. Y algo que queremos es que pues también veamos de qué forma sea una oportunidad para que los tinkerers y los Wayaks también aprovechen tiempo en familia. Queremos que todos formen parte de esta gran experiencia. No es obligatorio que los papás formen parte o los hermanos, pero puede haber algún hermano que quiere participar. Entonces es una experiencia para todos los grados. Entonces queremos que todos formen parte de esta gran experiencia.

Exacto.

Y les voy a decir algo, la verdad está tan divertido, ya poco a poco sabrán al respecto, pero te picas, te picas y te va a encantar y van a querer todos ayudar. Entonces háganlo, por favor convivan, eso es muy importante para nosotros, que las familias Lick's también se unan.

Ro ya estuvo intentándolo y tanto que se picó haciéndolo, ya les platicará.

Se le ven las ojeras por ahí.

Y lo que les recomiendo muchísimo es tener una libreta de ideas. ¿A qué me refiero con tener una libreta de ideas? Pues esa libreta que no es la libreta de la escuela como no sé, tipo un diario, una libreta bonita, la que más les guste, su libreta favorita donde anotan esas cosas. Esa libreta ni siquiera la tienen que comprar, una que ya tengan, una que les guste en su casa, que tengan por ahí. Esa la vamos a utilizar para anotar nuestras ideas porque esto va a ser un espacio creativo, un momento de locura donde pueden anotar lo que sea. Lo que sí es que les vamos a pedir que dividan su libreta en 3, y esto va a ser libre, ni siquiera vamos a ponernos a ver si sí lo hicieron, de que a ver si, si dividiste tu libreta en 3. No, esto es para ustedes y es una recomendación. Y después también vamos a compartir al final de todos los retos, pues estaría padre compartir las fotos de nuestras libretas. Y entonces vamos a dividir la libreta en 3: 1, en ideas y bocetos; 2, una segunda parte en nuevos conceptos y aprendizajes, nuevos conceptos que yo encuentre en la presentación, en lo que estoy haciendo y haya aprendido; 3, mi Science Journal. En la parte 3 del Science Journal, esta parte 3 lo incluye una de las lecciones. Entonces, una de nuestras lecciones, o sea, una de las clases, la siguiente clase, vamos a aprender a hacerlo. Así que este no se preocupen si no saben qué es, lo vamos a aprender a hacer en conjunto, ¿sale?

Y algo que para responder alguna de las preguntas que tienen las familias de Leaks, sí es para todos.

Y justo la idea de los challenges de Leaks Prize Es que lo puede hacer alguien de primer primaria como un guayaco, ¿no?

O como los Sherpas, que también les juro que está muy divertido.

Exacto.

Sí, es para todos.

Now let's change to English time. Okay, we are speaking English too, so if you hear a little Sofia Vergara here, sorry, that's my accent, but we don't need to worry about accents. So we need to start learning English. That's the one thing we need to, to really know.

Super.

These are the following lessons. We already talked about this, so I'm going to skip it. And let's talk about the lesson 1. Do you want to learn about lesson 1?

Yes, of course. Okay, perfect. So in this first stage of Lick's Prize, we want to teach about what is a Golbert machine. But first, I want to ask Roberto and Ana if they know what is a Golbert machine. Roberto, do you know what is a Golbert machine?

It is like a microwave but bigger, right?

No. No.

Is a machine that is—

is a machine that is gold?

An answer?

No, I want to know, I want to ask our tinkerers and Wayaks and our families if they know what is a Goldberg machine. If you know what is a Goldberg machine, please write your answer in the chat in Facebook or YouTube. We are recording this webinar and it will be available on Facebook and YouTube. Okay, so tinkerers, Wayaks, do you know what is a Goldberg machine?

Roberto, Anna?

Cooking machine?

Maybe ice cream machine? No, a machine of gold.

We're going to make gold.

I'm going to need power. Oyaks, tinkers.

Okay, kind of, kind of.

So Anna, I know that you have the answer of what is a golden machine.

Would you please tell us what is a golden machine?

But I think it's better if I show you.

Okay, nobody knows.

Can I show you?

Yeah, of course.

Let's, let's do it. Let me see if you don't hear it, please tell me.

Yeah, because they don't know.

Do you— si si escucha?

Yes.

Okay.

I love it.

Wow.

So it's an, um, cooking machine, right?

No, that is not a cooking machine.

So it's better, it's funnier.

So, Anna, with this video, you are telling us that the Tinkers and YX Athletes will build something like this?

The thinkers and why-ax, yes, they will build something like this. We will explain it later. Now let's talk a little about the, just the, the Goldberg machine. Basically, the Goldberg machine, like OK Go, this is the band, the name band, created this video by connecting a series of simple machines. I repeat, simple machines together to create a single chain reaction machine timed perfectly to their song. And if you see, there's a time where there are glasses of water that the glasses of water play the song like at the same time of the machine and the song. So they are really, really, really, really like pure and really well done. So it's Amazing what they've done. So if it's not clear, I'm going to show you another example of a Goldberg machine.

Okay, let me show you.

These are my favorite toys for girls. So basically we have seen, we've seen like two different kinds of machines.

And what did you notice about both videos, Adolfo and Ro? What do I need?

What do you think about these videos? What I see is that you need to be capable to achieve something at the end. So maybe you can tell me what else did you notice, Roberto, for example.

All the machines has a purpose, right? For example, play a song or just turn off the television, right? So it is Amazing how you have to use many, many tools to do one simple task.

Amazing! And what did you notice, Adolfo?

Yeah, I noticed that I think that we have a problem in Facebook because we use a song that has copyright, so I think the only people that we have here are only in YouTube. So let's make a pause for like 5 minutes because I, I think that we need to make something here in Facebook.

Okay.

No, fíjate que no lo pensé.

Okay, esperamos un poquito.

Okay, okay. Doesn't matter. What do you think, guys, about the first challenge? Tell us, please tell us.

I'm going to put here like a song in the beginning.

Regresamos, nos vamos a anuncios.

Ay, pero lo que no puedo hacer es poner esta música que tiene Again, yeah, we need some tinkers and Wayaks to make some songs for our webinars.

Oh, people on Facebook, what do you think about the challenge? Please Vamos allá! No, it doesn't have to have a song in the background, but if you can do it, it's okay. It is all on your creativity. And in your idea. So the sky is the limit.

Okay, Maggie, we are waiting for Facebook.

We'll need a lot of space to build the chair.

No, it is not about space, it is all about creativity. You can do a well, Wave Machine just in one room. Okay, it is going to be different. It is not going to be like the machine of the girls in the video, but it's going to be great if you have creativity and imagination. And yeah, it is so cool. We are so excited about this project.

Yes, I want to show you everything else because we need to finish the class. Like, the class is not over, so all the questions is going to be answered when you see— uh, no, it cannot be digital, it needs to be in the real life. But all the questions are going to be solved when we, when we start again.

I don't know what's happening, but yeah, I will send all the people that are in Facebook to YouTube because we don't have problems in YouTube.

Okay, so I didn't know any bit digital.

No.

Okay, let's wait. Okay, so you—

Emiliano is very excited. Yeah, we are very excited too. It's gonna be amazing. And it is a great, great project to spend family time together and having a great time with the family. No, no, the— how to say that— the prize of the challenge is not going to be about the size or the How do you have— or the longest machine, but you're gonna know about all the things that you need to solve the price.

Okay. No te pongas nervioso. Can we start?

Everyone is connecting again.

Yeah, I'm solving that. Maybe we can give, uh, 3 more minutes. Anna, could you please put in the banner that we are waiting for, for the new people? Because we are, we are waiting the people from Facebook to come to YouTube. Maybe we will solve the problem in Facebook.

We found 67. We used to have 100.

Yeah, we're gonna pick that one.

And we need to see another video of the—

no, no Harlem Face.

Thank you, we need it. Our first technical problems.

Welcome back.

Welcome back.

Yeah, it could be a family project or only the thinker of the voyage. I recommend it, do it as a team, because it's a great, great activity and you can do it in your home. So take advantage of that.

Adolfo, I think that because we are going to talk about another video that is behind the project and it's a 10-minute video, we can start and they can start joining and that video seen YouTube already. I hope that they don't cancel us because we are going to, to put the whole video. But it's really important to see because basically is the whole part of how they did all the Goldberg Machine, the OK, the, the group, the musical group, this group OK Go. They made this amazing video and they make, uh, uh, just behind the scenes Project learning. So we want to see the behind the project learning. So that's what we are going to see now. We are going to see the behind the project of, of these two showpots, the Q&A of OK Go, and we are going to see the whole video. It's 10 minutes, but prepare for that. And after this, we are going to see all the learnings that we catch about what they did and what is the project, because I think what is the most important thing are the learnings behind a project, are the learnings behind the Goldberg Machine, and are the learnings behind what we are going to see here. So I'm going to start, I'm going to put play now, and I think while we are playing this, people is going to start joining. So I'm going to put play, and if it's too loud, because people told me that it was too loud before, Hello, what are you doing? Please also tell me.

Yeah.

Hey everyone, I'm Tim. And I'm Damian.

We are in the band OK Go. Back there, of course, Andy and Dan and our friend Annemarie Thomas.

Annemarie is an engineering professor and she's invited us here to hang out and talk with her about how we made our video for This Too Shall Pass.

And while we're here, we figured why don't we teach you some about the concepts that are in the video and maybe you can use them to build some things yourself.

Yeah, so I guess we should get started.

Thank you guys for coming.

Thanks for having us.

So how did you come up with the idea to do a chain reaction machine as a video?

Andy sent me a clip of one you saw online, right?

Yeah, this print shop had set up a chain reaction machine and it was really long and there was just something so satisfying about watching this really long chain reaction play out just in sort of like an everyday space, a shop.

For the rest of you all to do that right away too?

We all had this reaction to it, which was just telling to keep watching them. Like, you can watch it over and over again. And when you find that thing where emotion just jumps out of the normal, that for us is kind of like, we know it's time to chase it.

So when you had the idea, did you— was it the four of you that built the machine?

No, we didn't build the whole machine ourselves. We— I mean, we're not— nerdy, but we're not, we're not, we're not good enough. We're not that nerdy. We, we didn't really know where to start, so I wrote in a job posting. I looked for one or two engineers. There was a message board in Los Angeles, and the people who ran that board, it was a group called Mindshare, they wrote— 12 of them got together and wrote us a proposal. So we got together with the 12 of them, and we basically just tried to figure out what makes a chain reaction machine like this. Like, why Why are they fun? What are the rules?

And this is a group of musicians and engineers. Were you all on the same page?

I mean, in the beginning, it seemed to me that there was no page to be on except we love— like, everybody understands that there's something compelling here. So everybody in the room is kind of— has different specialties. There's musicians, and there's artists, and there's tinkerers, and there's engineers. But it's a bunch of people who are all just curious and excited. And we had to figure out what was the thing that made this all kind of go together. Like, Dan, you had a particular feeling about what they should feel like.

Yeah, some of these machines, when I watch them on YouTube, I get a sense of tension or an edge-of-your-seat quality. And I find that really fun about these. And I end up looking for more to watch to see if I catch that feeling.

So were you trying to put suspense into this one or a storyline?

We needed this to, like, to run with the music. I mean, it's a music video. And in fact, with all of our music videos, the sort of the hardest thing to do is to take a single idea and figure out how we can choreograph an arc into it.

Yeah, I mean, I feel like one of the first unifying things between us and all the scientists we work with was the challenge of, like, can we make this machine dance to the music? You know, can we make it synchronized? And—

Yeah, well, like, what's gonna— when you get to the chorus and the big woo, like, how is the machine gonna feel different? And so we had to go through and sort of qualitatively think about, well, how does the machine feel here and how does the machine feel there? And to a lot of engineers, that wasn't their first concern. They're used to making things work. So there were a lot of people who were sort of like, yeah, but how do we make it consistent? And— our input was often sort of like, well, let's worry less about consistent and more about feeling. So let's design, instead of designing for effectiveness, let's design for aesthetics. What is it? What's that feeling that it gives you? So in the beginning, the machines are all sort of delicate and kind of leading up to something. When we get to that first big chorus, that's when the big colored flags all fly, you know, and we wanted that to really fill up the screen with color. And there's a bridge section that goes to second half of the song, we go down an elevator shaft and we're watching just liquids for a little while, and it sort of builds the tension a little bit. And in those early design meetings, what we were sort of trying to do is figure out what were the big sort of buckets of tricks we could do.

It was important to us that there'd be no magic in this video, you know, and that, and that everything that was— that you see on screen is something that you could probably get in your garage or in your attic or somewhere, you know. We wanted to hopefully give the feeling that like anyone with enough drive and ambition could do this.

How long did it take?

The entire video process was about 6 months, but that was from the moment we posted like the job listing online to the day we were done, finished with it. So, and a lot of that was finding a space we could work in and finding the right people to work with and getting all the supplies. And, you know, so even putting the, getting up the lights and all the film crew stuff takes a long time. So I think the machine itself was about 2 months.

And by the time you finished building it, did it work every time?

Yes.

Every time?

No.

No section of that machine worked every time. And it wasn't supposed to. I mean, it was— we wanted it to feel precarious. We shot it 89 times, was it? And we only got to the end of it 3 times. And even that was a very good hit ratio. We were surprised we got to the end of it as many times as we did.

The machine was designed so that if it was going to fail, it would probably fail in the first minute and a half or so. So like the more precarious machines were at the top, they were sort of the smaller machines. But once we got downstairs, it was like bigger stuff that probably wasn't going to fail if we got to it.

Yeah, I mean, it's interesting that dominoes at the very beginning of it were the thing that failed the most often. So little, little interactions, they seem really delicate, but also a tiny change in how you place something has a huge effect on what's going to happen. As it turns out, when you drop a piano from the ceiling, it lands in the same spot every time, you know. So as the reactions got bigger, even though sometimes they get much more impressive, they're actually much more predictable as well. So the bottom floor of the— which, you know, after we leave the Kabuki screens, we're on the bottom floor of the warehouse, and that whole bottom floor, I think we ran the whole thing maybe 7 or 10 times, and it worked 3 of those. Whereas the top floor, I mean, it was, you know, we got 3 out of 100, basically.

I think it's worth it to say, you know, if the machine failed, like, anywhere towards, like, a minute in, it was probably, like, 30 to 45 minutes of reset time. Yeah. You know, we couldn't just go back and shoot right away.

Yeah, there was sort of 3 or 4 reset levels. The dominoes were a 5-minute reset. Anything past the dominoes was, like, 15 to 20 minutes. The whole top floor was 45 minutes. The top and bottom floor together were 2 hours. So we got pretty good at stopping the machine. If something went wrong, like, make sure it doesn't keep going, you know?

Did you ever question whether it was gonna work?

The whole time.

Yeah. Yeah.

We were really not sure until the end that we were gonna get it. It was terrifying.

Yeah, I would say we were pretty sure we weren't gonna get it. There definitely was a dark period where you—

it just—

you didn't think it was going to work, but we, we had to power through that and keep trying.

As the, the events of the machine would be a success down the line, we would have to move from the one spot we were set up for camera view and get to the next spot and then go down a set of stairs. And I remember my heart pounding like, oh my gosh, is this thing— are we gonna get to the next spot? And then sure enough, here comes this crew and this motion and this emotion flies by and you're like, "Oh my gosh, we're gonna get to the end, we're gonna get to the end." And by the end, it's like a huge cathartic moment when you get blasted in the face with paint.

When you see all those people on the— above us at the end screaming for joy, like, every bit of that is real relief.

I really wanted to get to the end of it, but then I didn't want to get to the end of it because getting shot by that paint really hurt my face. So I remember, yeah, we'd get like really excited, like Dan was saying, like I'd get super psyched and I'd be like, "All right, right, I'm about to get blasted in the face." So how many times did you get blasted in the face?

For the real takes, we got blasted 3 times, but we had to do a lot of test blasts.

Yeah, right, yeah.

A lot of test blasts.

And on one of the test blasts, I got hit so hard that we had to bring in the on-set medic. And I got hit with red paint. So we couldn't tell that was bleeding.

Yeah.

It was the paint.

Our favorite chain reaction machines usually have a point. They're doing something. It's not just, it's not just like stuff. It makes your coffee or it puts the, you know, it sets off the toaster. There's always sort of a cute reason for them. And we were trying to figure out what would ours do? I mean, we knew it was a music video, but we didn't want it to do the traditional thing of a music video, which was like promote the band. So we decided that our machine should attack the band. And so we were trying to come up with different ways we could get more or less safely attacked. Like, I wanted to get thrown across the room. We wound up throwing me on a zip line. And you got attacked by the ping pong balls. Ping pong balls. It, of course, wound up with us getting shot in the face with paint at the end. And that also gave us the opportunity to make the whole thing into a mystery. That you see us in the beginning covered with paint. Why are they covered with paint? And hopefully at the end you realize, oh, they've been doing this all day long. And you get some sense of how many times you have to try this over and over and over again to get it to just work.

For the record, I would have been cool with toast coming out of the toaster.

It was grueling work. Yeah. I mean, it's hard work. But there's thousands of failures for every one success you have, and you only need that one success. I mean, everybody who worked on that machine only remembers the one time we got it, the joy of that. And that's what really makes it all worthwhile, and it really is all worthwhile in the end.

Amazing! So are we online?

Are we?

Yeah, we are live.

Perfect. So let's talk about Adolfo first. Let's talk about the learnings in this project. What did we got about the learnings in this project?

Super, yeah. What I want to say before watching all the amazing things that we can learn about building a golden machine is that with this project, I'm super sure that all the thinkers and all the YX athletes will show the world the amazing superpowers that they have, okay? Because in this project, we want to learn by doing. I'm seeing here, for example, Akasha Mexico that it is an excellent opportunity to learn to deal with failure and to know that success is made of many failures. So we need to learn from our mistakes, and I'm super sure that our thinkers will develop this skill that we want to teach them, that it's all about collaboration, critical thinking, communication, and the most important, creativity. Okay, and Ana and Roberto, will tell us some of the learnings that we can have building the Golden Machine.

So yes, Roberto, first Roberto, Anna and Roberto.

Well, it's a crazy idea. Yeah, yes, it's crazy ideas that is going to come all over in your head, all over, all the time, all the time. It's going to be a lot of, um, different ideas But the most important thing about this is that you have to believe in those ideas. If you believe in your project and you believe in yourself, you're gonna do it great, okay?

And I think it's also about magic, Roberto.

If you can tell us about the second learning that we can have.

Yes, it is not about magic. It looks like, because only with one, um, ball you can create a whole machine, the start of a whole machine. Okay, but it is not magic, it includes like a little bit of science more than magic, right?

And we need like, like in the— what the learning that I think, uh, it's really, really important is that it's a diverse team. I know that we are in that we are alone in our homes, but we have our family. And as the group says, they were thinkers, they were makers, scientists, musicians. They were not only engineers making this. They were different kind of people doing this amazing machine. So we had an amazing— they had an amazing team. Also, what we learned about this video is that they made a lot of prototypes. So we are going to learn about prototyping. Let's make the sketches, drawings. Let's make one thing over and over again. That's prototyping, making a prototype. And what we learn here is that the first thing that we do is not the first thing that we are gonna get.

Yeah, right.

So we will, we will have a lesson focused on prototyping, right, Ana?

Yes.

Super. Perfect.

Makers. Make, create. Doesn't matter what you have in your house, or if your room is big or small, or if you wanna use your patio or your garden or your bed. Create. It doesn't matter what you have because you have the creativity.

So there's like the core value of the makers is is that what you have, you can do everything with what you have. If you don't have something, you made it. If you don't have a table, you made it. So a maker is someone that creates from nothing, and you don't need to go and buy stuff in the store and buy— no, with the thing that you have and the space that you have, you can do whatever idea. You can be creative to reach, like, literally the sky.

Totally. And do not give up. Please, please, please, please, please do not give up, okay? This is the most important thing because you're gonna make a lot of mistakes all the time. It's not gonna work at the first time, okay? So have— you, you have to keep this on your mind. And never, ever, ever give up.

I, I think that's the main learning of this video. They didn't give up, like they didn't give up, and they were trying over and over again. And also, other— another challenge, another, uh, learning about this video is that everyone can do it. Everyone, literally everyone. Like, you don't need to be a specialist, everyone can do it. And also, what I learned from this video It's that projects take time. They took 2 months producing the machine and 6 months for all the project.

Wow.

What also did you learn, Adolfo?

Wow, I think my favorite value and one of the most important things that the Tinkers and Wayaks need to learn, it's about resilience. Resilience, it's all about trying and trying and trying, even though it's super hard. So we saw in this video that even if it's not— if it wasn't working, they found another way to get to the objective. So I think the most important thing, it's about resilience, and as Roberto said, the thinkers and why-ers don't have to give up.

So there is going to be a moment, yes, of course there is going to be a moment where you will want to stop. Like, they, they, they, they want to stop because they say like, oh my God, we have been here like 80 times, how much time I'm going to need. So, so you will want to stop, but It's not only about, about doing nothing, it's about hard work.

Hard work, yeah.

And the most important question here is, how many times do I need to try? How, how really, how many times do I need to try? How, how many? Like, doesn't matter. So yeah, so now I'm going to tell you about story about José Hernández. Do you know this Mexican astronaut? This is a really good example of how many times do I need to try something. José Hernández, he wanted to be an astronaut since he was a little boy, and he became— he came from a really poor family in the US. He is Mexican American, and he only knew about doing agriculture and being in the camp. But he really wanted to be an engineer and he really wanted to be an astronaut. So he didn't try to be an astronaut for once, he didn't want to try to be an astronaut 2 times, nor 3, or 4, or 5, or 6, 7. No, no, he tried 11 times. 11 times.

Wow.

To be an astronaut, an astronaut.

So how many times do you want to do something to become what you really want to be? So that's the question that we need to be doing, to be doing over and over again. So we need thousands of failures for this one success, and you only need one success or just to be like, to make you happy. Like, thousands of failures will make you really successful. At the end, you will only remember the time that you did it, and that's worthwhile.

Yeah.

So guys, if you want to tell me something, uh, yeah, I think, I think Roberto wants to tell us something.

Because Roberto didn't sleep because all night long last night he was building a Goldberg machine. And Roberto will give us a tour in his department to show us. Super. So Roberto, could you please show us your Goldberg machine that you built?

Well, when you first told me about this project, I fall in love. So I just thought, let's try it. So I create a wall machine in my apartment. As you can see, I have many tools. I didn't buy anything, it was everything in my house. And so please, please, please, please everyone, cross fingers because I wanna, I wanna, I wanna show you how it works, okay? How you working?

Super.

Okay, so Anita, Anita will make a zoom in to Roberto.

Not like this, wait.

Me, please. Yeah.

Are you ready?

I am ready. Look, look, so I have many tools. I have my favorite stuff here, like my books, my cameras, because it is part of the project to show everything you, you want to show, like your, your essence, right? So I do a lot of exercise too. I, I love to travel, so I put my, my, um, how do you say that?

I forgot the, the word.

The word—

my world here.

The world.

Yeah.

And well, at the end I'm gonna put the Licks logo, so let's see.

Trun, trun, trun.

Ay, qué miedo. Más arriba, más arriba la cámara.

Wow.

Wait, wait, wait.

You can do it, you can do it, you can do it!

Wow, I failed, but it doesn't matter. I have a video that last night I did it well, and I'm happy with this. If it doesn't work right now, no, too bad, but at least I learned many things. So thank you, guys.

Super cool. Thank you very much, Roberto.

And I think that you—

the end result of this project is because you learn a lot from your mistakes.

Yeah.

Do you have an example of one of the mistakes that you had yesterday?

Well, at first I tried to start the machine with water, but my whole apartment, it was a lake. Here. So I learned about that, I control my frustration in the step, and I change it, and I feel good with the learning.

Okay, super cool. So we will be super happy watching all the projects and the tinkers that will be using water. So Tinkers and Wayaks, if you want to use some water in your projects, you will have extra points.

Okay, it's a challenge, so good luck.

Super, congrats. Well, thank you, Ana, thank you, Ro. Now we will finish with the last points in order to know what will be the next points and the next activity that we will have in the, in the Lickspies, Ana?

Yes, to finish everything, so let's talk about the really, really about the project. So we are going to build a Goldberg machine. I didn't tell you, you assume, but yes, we're going to build a Goldberg machine. At the end, it has to have a function.

What is your project for?

Does it turn on the coffee maker? Does it turn on the toaster, the alarm? Start thinking, start sketching. What do I need? I say this because you need to start thinking about— you don't need to do it for tomorrow, not the next week, just start sketching. That's like the homework for the next week. Start sketching, start imagining. Maybe you can start prototyping in the weekend, why not? It depends on you. And in the next weeks, you will have the requirements for the project. Yes, we will have different requirements if you're in first grade than if you are in secondary, of course, in high school, yes, of course, but doesn't matter for Tikkers and Waiyaks, both you need to make an amazing wobber machine with your families too. So are you ready for the next prize?

Yes, I'm ready.

This is not mandatory, you need to sign up in this form if you want to be participating in the project. This is the link, if you also, Adolfo, if you can put it in the comments. Or in the private, the link, just of course in the comments so everyone can have the link, uh, bit.ly/stage0_leaks_underscore.

We are learning using Licks your prize.

Learning new words. So perfect. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Amazing, amazing, amazing. Let me see if here in the comments we can put it so they can just click it.

Yes, of course.

Ah, okay, I was trying to put it, but okay, if not, at the end I will put it. And the first clue for this lesson is a lemon. You need to use a lime or a lemon for your project. Doesn't matter if you make something about it, like if you, if you use the whole, the, the lemon, one part However you use it doesn't matter, but you need to be using a lemon or a lime, however, or whatever you want in your Goldberg machine. So I will, I'm going to tell you the following lesson. So now you are going to know more about the dates so you can schedule them. So if you have free time to work in your project and in all the day, do it. If you have free time to work in this project, do it because you will need it. And on September 24th, the next Thursday, we are going to learn about the science journal and tools for your project. And also we'll be learning a new tool that is called Google Science Journal. On October 1st, we are going to learn to play a small portion of the song with the glasses. Do you remember that in this song there is a part that they play a song with glasses? So we are going to learn about that. On October 8th, we are going to make a prototype of the Goldberg machine, and we are going to learn about prototyping, what's a prototype. On October 15th, we are going to learn about simple concepts and simple machines. As you see, we talk a lot about the thing that is called simple machine. Simple machine is, or are, the basic, like, the basic machines that you build to build the Goldberg machine. So you will learn about that and it's amazing. Also, you will see a lot about engineering without realizing it, without realizing that. Now you're going to realize it because I tell you, but you are not going to realize about that. On October 22nd, we are going to have some time to create. We are going to create with you. And on October 29th, we are going to have some video time where we are going to show all the projects and also maybe all the projects. I don't know, it depends on how many of us we are. And in November we are going to start a new challenge. So some ideas to work in your project: work between, in between your classes if you have time in between, in recess. If your teacher, if your teacher tell you, oh, if you are not doing anything, you can go and work on Leaks Prize. Don't worry, all your mentors know about Leaks Prize, so they will know that you can work in the free time in that. So also make this project a family time and create ideas in your free time also. So this, I think that this project will be amazing. I really want to see what you are going to build.

And I don't know, Adolfo and Roberto, do you have something else to say?

No, maybe we can answer some of the questions. Maybe we can switch to Spanish to start answering the questions. Okay, switch.

Perfecto.

Proyectos y las increíbles Goldberg Machines que van a construir nuestros tinkers y nuestros Wayaks.

Aquí nos preguntan si vamos a grabar. Una disculpa, familias, para los que pasamos de Facebook a YouTube, hubo un detalle técnico ya que pusimos una canción. Pues todas las canciones tienen derecho de autor. Facebook identificó que pusimos una canción, entonces nos bajó el vídeo de Facebook, pero les vamos a compartir este vídeo grabado. Ahorita en unos minutos les va a llegar por correo les va a llegar el video grabado de YouTube, les va a llegar también la liga para que se puedan registrar. Y como también aquí comentan, que todas las lecciones van a ser de una hora cada jueves, cada jueves, correcto, cada jueves a esta misma hora de 4:30 a 5:30 van a ser las lecciones de Licks Prize, para que estén súper pendientes, listos. Si no pueden en este horario, no se preocupen, va a quedar, todas las sesiones van a quedar grabadas, siempre se las vamos a estar compartiendo para que puedan acceder a ellas. Y a partir de la siguiente lección van a poder estar compartiéndonos fotos, vídeos, porque queremos demostrar al mundo los increíbles proyectos que sus hijos van a realizar y que ustedes, thinkers y wayaks, van a hacer. Así que muchísimas gracias, Ana, Rom. No sé si tengan algo más que comentar.

Nada, agradecerles. Estoy muy, muy emocionado. Ya me urge ver lo que van a armar, si van a usar zapatos, si van a usar sus a sus peluches, a sus perros, a sus gatos, hasta el caballo que vimos en uno de nuestros videos.

Por favor, sálganse de la caja, piensen diferente.

El cielo es el límite, como le estábamos diciendo. Entonces busquen el cielo, busquen la luna y despeguen un cohete al final. De verdad lo pueden hacer.

Te voy a decir algo, ni siquiera el cielo es el límite, porque el cielo no es el límite porque hay pisadas en la luna.

Tienes toda la razón, tienes toda la razón, totalmente.

Así que diviértanse muchísimo, pásenla increíble en familia. Y así como yo tengo toda una construcción aquí y sufrí, me frustré y me desvelé, estoy feliz por habérselos compartido, aunque sea trabado la pelotita. No pasa nada, el chiste es aprender, pasarla bien y echarle todas, todas, todas las ganas.

Correcto, padrísimo, perfecto. Y aquí contestamos algunas otras preguntas de Silvia. Si por algo no se pueden conectar a la lección, ¿con quién pueden aclarar dudas? Con sus amigos. Los amigos van a estar al tanto de cada uno de los avances del Leaks Prize y de cada uno de los, de las lecciones de cada uno de los Leaks Prize. Entonces directamente los amigos van a estar contactando tanto a Ana y a Ro, que son los Sherpas de la montaña del Mindset Leaks, que son pues los creadores de este, de este Leaks Prize.

Sí, acuérdense que esto no es un proyecto obligatorio, ni tampoco es de que sí deben de hacer algo, no hacer algo. Ahorita sí es como sálganse de la caja y todo lo que quieran usar, úsenlo. No hay tarea, no se preocupen. Ahorita solamente es hacer sketches. Así que en este momento la verdad es que creo que dudas pues no debería de haber todavía. Entonces, este, pues básicamente es libre, es hacer lo que quieran.

Pero con un producto final, ¿no?

Exacto, exacto. Justamente platicando cuando estábamos planeando el X Prize, queremos que esta primera etapa sea una etapa donde realmente todos los tinkers, todos los wayaks, todos los papás se salgan de la caja. Realmente destinen este momento del X Prize a disfrutar muchísimo en familia, a equivocarse, a darse cuenta que si se equivocan no pasa absolutamente nada. Disfruten mucho y queremos demostrarle a todo el mundo los increíbles proyectos que los tinkers y guayabas van a hacer por aquí. Y los avances, las lecciones son para apoyar el proyecto, correcto. Las lecciones justamente tienen como objetivo irlos apoyando en el avance de cada uno de los proyectos de las Goldberg Machines. Y a lo largo de las lecciones van a estar compartiendo vídeos, fotos, que ya les vamos a decir en la siguiente lección donde vamos a hablar del journal, del science journal, para que puedan ir compartiéndonos sus avances.

Y listo.

Igual creo que la liga no la podían abrir algunos. Adolfo, entonces si quieres volverla a poner.

Sí, con mucho gusto se los coloco aquí. De todas formas se los voy a compartir ahorita en un momento. Les va a llegar un correíto y en ese correo les vamos a compartir la grabación de lo que acabamos de ver, les vamos a compartir el link para que se puedan registrar, y ahí van a poder observar también la presentación para que vean bien las siguientes fechas que tendremos. Y la siguiente fecha es el jueves 24 a las 4:30 de la tarde.

Sí, y si tienen dudas, de todas maneras no se preocupen, yo voy a estar hablando con sus profesoras, bueno, con sus mentores, para que, mentoras, para que de verdad ellas también puedan estar al tanto y ellas me hagan llegar a mí. Así que si tienen una duda, los alumnos, los Tinkers y Wayaks, pueden decir, pueden decir, este, Pueden preguntarle a sus mentores y sus mentores me dicen a mí y así yo platicaré con sus mentores, no se preocupen.

Padrísimo, muy bien, pues súper contentos de haberlos tenido el día de hoy. Muchas gracias, Ana, muchas gracias, Ro.

Gracias, Ana.

Go Licks Prize.

Go Licks Prize. Bye bye, muchas gracias.

Saludos a todos, que tengan un excelente cierre de semana, familias.

Bye bye.

Bye.

Aceptaron el reto, muy bien.