After a delightful tour of the school I end up in the electronics class. I look around at the familiar tools and think “Yeah… I can do this! This is awesome – right up my alley!”

The next minute a student is showing me his winky-blink breadboard and saying “The light is turning on but not blinking, what’s wrong?”

My mind freezes. I know nothing.

I compare the work to the schematic, everything is in place, there is nothing wrong.

The sweat starts pouring. Panic races through my mind, “Oh no oh no oh no oh no what the heck is wrong with this!!??”

Then through the fog of my mind I get a desperate idea to buy some time by sending the student away with a simple task, changing the capacitor.

Student comes back and BOOM that was the problem!

Nailed it.