(Grace) Every year on Medicine Lake, they have an event called the Art Shanty Projects.

It's like a carnival on ice and artists create themes for their icehouses.

This year they us asked to work on the Welcome Shanty, and our job was to make it more energy efficient.

Jane is one of the artists who created the Welcome Shanty.

Hi, hey, I'm Jane.

(Nikita) We brought the shanty to Grace's house and explained it's hard to keep it warm.

(Jane) As you can see, we built our shanty to be translucent, so we could get heat from the sun during the day.

And it has corrugated plastic on the outside and one layer of Bubble Wrap on the inside.

(Nikita) Jane thought that her ice shanty was too cold last year, so she asked us to figure out a way to keep more heat inside.

(Grace) We had to do a bunch of investigations to figure out how to keep the ice shanty warm for the people who were working inside.

So do you think you can help us?

Yeah!Oh we'd love to.

(Jane) What I think we'll do is we're just going to pull it and slide it right back here.

We're good?Oh perfect!

(Greta) It was surprising 'cause we really didn't know what the shanty was going to look like.

(all) Let's go!

I'll guide this part.

Sometimes there was confusion on which pieces went where.

It could be right side rear, wouldn't that be on the right then the back one on the right side?

(Jane) You're right, right side rear.

Okay, I'm going to lift up.

Got it!Got it!

That's it.

♫♫ I think it turns pretty good.

(Sukhmani) It was fun building the shanty.

Okay, back up over this way.

Everybody was shouting, trying to get their job done.

Hi!

(Greta) Once we put it up, we were all like, oh yeah, we can totally make this warmer, 'cause it's so cold right now.

There's so many things we can do with it.

Let's get the shanty, whoo!.

Oh wow.

Whoa!

It's nice and warm in here too.

I thought it was going to be like that tall and then the whole thing would only be this tall, but it's really like, tall.

It's way bigger than I expected also.

So I didn't really think that it would be actually like, an 8-by-8 square.

I think it's going to be an interesting space to change, to make it warmer, just play around with the walls and the cracks.

Right here.

1, 2, 3, SciGirls!

Alright!