Orange County has all (175) the 8th graders from the various schools participate in a manufacturing day. They get tours of several businesses, and they come to the Community Center for some hands on activities and lunch. Cook Medical had a couple of stations, there was a robotic arm from DeVry, and another company had a bottle filling machine, and one other (i didnt get a chance to talk with all of them). I had 3 activities for the students to choose from : rubberband cars, straw flyers, paper circuits. They split up and worked on the one they wanted. Of course we had to mark distance for the straw flyer and the rubberband cars and make it kind of a competition.
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