(acoustic guitar strums)
(bright music)
- Hi.
- Hi, what's your name?
- I'm Caitie.
- Hi, I'm Christopher.
Welcome to Excavation Station.
- Thank you.
What is Excavation Station?
- Well, it's a series of diggers
that have been specially modified
for you to play games on.
- Games?
- Yeah.
- That's fun.
- Are you ready?
- Yeah.
- Okay, first off we have
to put on a safety vest.
- Okay, I can do that.
There we go.
- And then here's a game card.
- Okay.
- Now, let's go play.
- I'm ready to play.
(bright music)
Wow.
- All right, Caitie, just wait right here.
I'm gonna start the machine for you.
- Okay.
(machine whirs)
Whoa.
- So, a couple of important things.
This is a real machine,
so it's safety first.
So, when you get in to sit down,
I need you to put your seat belt on, okay?
- Okay.
- All right, get on in.
- Here I go.
Wow.
Seat belt.
- Okay, so you're gonna
use these two joysticks
to operate the arm.
It's going to go left,
right, up, and down.
And the end of the arm
is gonna go out and back.
Your objective is to try and get the ducks
out of the pond and onto the mat.
Are you ready?
- I'm ready.
- All right, swipe your
card, and you can begin.
- Here we go.
(bright music)
(machine whirs)
Oh, so close.
No.
Yay!
Yay!
Oh, so close.
- Well, how'd you do, Caitie?
- It was really fun, it's tricky though.
- Did you learn the controls?
- I think I'm almost there.
- I think we'll take
you to the next level.
- Next level?
- Yeah.
- Okay, let's do it.
All right.
- All right, sit down, Caitie.
Now remember, safety first.
- Yes, seat belt.
Okay, so what do I have
to do in this machine?
- Okay, the controls are the same,
but the objective this
time is to use the ball
to try and knock down the pins.
- Okay, no problem.
- All right?
When you're ready, swipe your card.
- Okay.
Here we go.
Okay.
Knock down the bowling pins.
(bright music)
(machine whirs)
Oh!
Yay, I got one!
Two!
Three!
Yay!
All right!
- Wow, Caitie, you did really good!
- Yeah, pretty close, right?
- Yeah, so you think you've
got the controls down now?
- Yeah, this one felt a little easier.
I was able to figure it
out a little bit better.
- All right, well this
was our medium challenge.
Are you ready for our hard challenge?
- Yeah, I definitely want to try.
- All right, let's go.
- Okay.
All right.
- Oh, this one does look tricky.
- All right remember, safety first.
Put on your seat belt.
- Yeah.
Okay.
- Okay, the controls are the
same as the other machine,
but this one you have to try
and put the shapes into the block.
- Wow, okay, this one's going to be hard.
- All right, whenever you're
ready, swipe your card.
- Okay, thank you.
(bright music)
(machine whirs)
Yay!
Woohoo!
Oh.
- Wow, Caitie, you did really well.
- This one was really fun.
- It was a little bit
more challenging, right?
- Yeah, but I liked having to
go really slow and carefully.
- Right.
- To fit everything in.
- All right, well come on
out, and let's go talk.
- Okay.
- So, Caitie, what did you think?
- It was so much fun.
I really loved trying out those machines.
- Did you have a hard time
trying to figure out all the controls?
- I think I got the hang of it at the end.
- All right.
- So, what are these machines used for
on a real construction site?
- So, these are actually digger machines.
They're not toys, they've
just been specially modified
so that we can use them here.
- Oh yeah, I've seen
those digging machines
on construction sites.
- Yeah, they're used to dig up the dirt
and make holes so that they
can build things in them.
- Well, it was really fun to
use them with these games.
- Thanks for letting me play,
I'll give this back to you.
- All right.
- Thanks so much, Chris.
- Thanks for coming.
Bye.
- [Child] Woo!
