ya gotta love a school that has a large wall mural of the world map… Decatur Township Blue Academy held a #STEM night with dozens of stations for 900 attendees to explore. We had four activities for families to experience. We had PVC pipes & connectors for free building, Nurcs & craft sticks, string art,… Read more »

Grandview Elementary K’s are building homes for their Pet Rocks over 3 days. So I took some materials to help them. In addition, I 3D printed and laser cut some animals so their Rock could have their own pet. I made bats, squirrels, fish, cats, & dogs (I did these flat to save time). I… Read more »

Once again working with the Office of Community & School Partnerships for a maker session with some 8th grades students from Paramount Brookside. We utilized the Dragster Electric Car from TeacherGeek. Everybody got their car finished and tested, some had time to make adjustments. We didnt have time to race.

GEMS is Girls in Engineering, Math, & Science. They had an event at Tri North Middle School on a Saturday. Students rotated through 3 of the many sessions. Our session was about using coffee stirrers and pipe cleaner pieces to build a geodesic dome for a Moonbase (tape & hot glue to hold pieces together)…. Read more »

I purchased some gear kits from TeacherGeek. They have setup and lab documents available. We start with the Setup guide that comes with the kit, then I tweaked labs a little (Gear 1 & Gear 2) Remember there are some cool websites about designing gears http://www.gearsket.ch/ https://geargenerator.com/ Lakeview Elementary was the first group that wanted… Read more »

I headed to N. Daviess Schools for their elementary afterschool STEM club. I took stomp rockets for them to test out. They built one then we went to the shop to launch (some sports teams were using the gym). The goal was to hit the far wall, above halfway up. There was some dust collection… Read more »

Loogootee High Schools 2 CS classes have some Arduino Nano’s and they asked me to come help with them. We met in their new (this year) FabLab to work with Nano’s and some accessories (LED, servo, neopixel strips, buttons…). There are 3 levels of CS in each set of students. I had to brush up… Read more »

Unionville 4th grade is studying Energy, so their teacher thought building paper roller coasters would be a good way to make it interactive. I found this template at Science Buddies. We talked about what kinds of energy they knew about (we had done some electricity earlier in the year). We got to PE & KE… Read more »

I went to afterschool at Shakamak Elementary to help some kids learn about 3D design and printing. There were two groups, k-3 & 4-6. I utilized a Tinkercad classroom so I had access to their files for printing (or fixing). The K-3 I created nicknames  like “aaa” and “bbb” for an easier sign in ;… Read more »

It is time for the kids to see their Derby Car profiles get laser cut. They also watched/talked about 3D printing the wheels. We had 2 other jobs for them : they needed to cut some dowel rods for axles and pins to use in assembling, and they needed to get some ideas drawn for… Read more »