Michigan Troll

[Bethany K. Dumas]

from another list:

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____'s elementary school has been on break this week, so she has been
attending a day program [elsewhere] with some kind of field trip each day.

Yesterday, they went to the Scrap Box, a place where all kinds of scrap
materials are available for kids to make stuff with.

One of _____'s projects consisted of a six-inch square piece of black
foam, flat on the table, with many small round objects glued to it, and a
long black cardboard tube rising from one corner.

It's Michigan Troll, she explained.

I didn't understand.

First, you press this button, then this button, she said.  Then, there's a
message here from Michigan Troll.  Then, you press this button.  Ten,
nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, blastoff!  And this
part is the spacecraft.
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Bethany