Team Info:

• Team Name HES Cubcats
• Sponsor Teacher Susan Newman/Brooke Lawson
• Participating students: Emily Coren, Jack Dyer, Xavier Gilbert, Riley Hernandez

Summary of Novel:

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Hugo is an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station in Paris, France.  He works on the clocks in the train station. He steals food and small toys so he can fix an automaton that his dad was working on when he died.  He meets a mean man in the the toy shop where he has been stealing little toys.  The mean man has a niece named Isabelle who helps him.  They find out that the mean man is really a famous film maker.  He is going to help Hugo with the automaton but Hugo gets arrested by the Station Inspector for stealing food before he can help him.  In the end, the mean man stops being mean and his family adopts Hugo and help him with the automaton.

Challenge 1:

We brainstormed several ideas and decided to try to build our own writing/drawing machine.We experimented with several design to see if we could change our drawings.  It was a lot of fun.  We will extend the project to make a carrier for our creation so that it would be easier for Hugo to carry to Papa Georges house with his broken hand..