Life In The Arts
The Swami of Aerogami - Stan Soroken
Wednesday, February 14, 2001 - 10:30 - 11:30 AM
THIS PROGRAM IS BEING PARTIALLY FUNDED BY THE CULTURAL COUNCIL FOR MONTEREY COUNTY
PROGRAM GUESTS
Stan Soroken, the Swami of "Aerogami" will share his designs of paper airplanes and demonstrate his musician skills on the trumpet.
When Stan Soroken was 7 years old, he started playing the trumpet and making paper airplanes. Today, he is still doing both.
Soroken is best known to area folks as the first-chair trumpet player in the Watsonville Band. He's not as well as known as a maker of paper airplanes- but he has achieved some notoriety in that field as well.
He made so many planes over the years that he got good at it, creating original designs and experimenting with the aerodynamics of an object considered by most to be nothing more than a toy.
Soroken became so serious about his hobby that he created a name for it- "aerogami" a play on the word "origami" the Japanese art of paper folding, origami. It naturally follows then that Soroken would call himself, in his paper airplane role, an aerogamist.
SUGGESTED READING LIST
Super Wings
by Peter Clemens
Kids' Paper Airplane Book
by Ken Blackburn, Jeff Lammers
The World Record Paper Airplane Book
by Ken Blackburn, Jeff Lammers
Ultimate Paper Airplane
by Richard Kline, Floyd Fogleman
How to Make Origami Airplanes That Fly
by Gery Hsu
Best Ever Paper Airplanes
by Norman Schmidt
LINKS
http://www.Friend.ly.Net/scoop/activity/airplanes/index.html
http://www.zurqui.com/crinfocus/paper/airplane.html
FOCUS QUESTIONS
1. What can you learn from folding paper airplanes?
2. Is paper airplanes like origami?
3. What is the difference between low and high tech airplanes?
STUDENT PROJECT
OBJECTIVE: Learn how to make low tech and high tech paper airplanes.
MATERIAL LISTS:
plain 8.5 X 11 Paper
STUDENT PROJECT:
Stan Soroken will demonstrate his own designed paper airplane folds.
For those teachers who were unable to obtain his designed paper folds, you can use a 8.5 X 11 paper and follow along with Stan during his lesson. Students may wish to draw on their paper before folding. Students may wish to create their own logo and name for each airplane.
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