The kids are all right

It was total chaos today starting my woodworking class with sixteen secondary students. I didn't have enough clamps to attatch the blocks of wood to the workbenches or sufficient carving mallets as I had come prepared to teach eight students but instead had to work with sixteen very enthusiastic teens all very keen to carve wood in short order. I had to remember to just stay relaxed and let the story unfold. In the end it all worked out OK and tomorrow I will arrive better equipped.
The project is to make an electric lamp with a wood base which will combine woodcarving with a practical application of the physics course the student have just completed which included an introduction to electricity.