The Renegade Spy Project by Terri Selting David

Author:Terri Selting David [David, Terri Selting]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781735454511
Publisher: Spiderdust Studios

22

Befuddled

In the cluttered Greenhouse, surrounded by her best friends, with the warm sun streaming over her, Amber was bored. And she felt guilty about it.

She sat at the potting table making fliers. She had no interest in building the safe, but didn't want to leave the others hanging, especially since she was kind of the one who had gotten them into making this crazy thing. Plus, she just wanted to be with her friends.

Quietly, she opened her notebook to her latest fashion design, an outfit she might try to make when she won the election. On the next page, a list of homework and campaign tasks stared up at her. Very few were checked off except for some homework. Her eyes darted to the others.

Across the table, Wren was drawing spirals. Kammie was trying to balance a marker on her nose, and Ivy was looking at her watch, taping a pencil impatiently.

Amber looked back at the long list in her notebook and slid a few fliers and some stickers over to Wren.

"Help me brighten these up, will you?" she said. The highlight of her day had been finding some amber colored foil stickers.

Wren took the fliers and looked at them blankly. She set them down in front of her, put two stickers on the top one, and then drifted off in thought.

"Okay," declared Wren finally, standing up. "This is ridiculous. Look, I know this is a really big invention, but we can do it! Look what we've done so far, right? Where's the engineering design process? This is exactly why engineers invented methods and processes. Let's get the ball rolling, get that fruit hanging low."

"That's still not how you use that expression," Ivy said, handing the paper to her.

"Whatever," Wren looked at the paper. "First, what's the question. So, what is our question?"

"How the heck do we make a safe from scratch? I mean seriously." Kammie started counting down the steps on her fingers. "Not only do we need to make a box out of something you can't cut into, we'll have to cut out and attach a working door. Then... ummm... Invent a complicated working lock mechanism from scratch to attach to the box made out of some unknown material that's affordable and easy to build with but impossible to break into and holy crap how do you even do that?"

She stopped counting fingers and threw up her hands.

"Yes, that's a great start, Kammie!" Wren encouraged her with a warm smile.

Kammie looked unconvinced.

Wren motioned her up to the easel and handed her the marker she’d been balancing earlier. "Let's outline our criteria. Write it down, Kammie. It's a list. You can do it."

Kammie perked up a bit and wrote CRITERIA, then, after a second, turned back and wrote:

Box

Can't cut into it

Door that opens and closes

Complicated locking mechanism from scratch

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