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 »

Crawford County 4H held a STEM night at the same time as a Board Meeting. I took some gear kits for kids to explore with. Also available were some Legos, robotic arms, 3D printers and laser cutter. I focused on helping a few kids get something laser cut.

I spent the day at South Henry Junior Senior High School and the evening at the Elementary School STEM night. I saw 4 classes during the day. Two of the classes experimented with the rubberband cars. We also had a 3D printing demonstration going on that they checked out. Several people in one class wanted… Read more »

Paoli JH/HS held a community STEM night in conjunction with a JV/V boys basketball game. We started right before the JV game and ended just before the V game started. They focus was Newton’s Laws of Motion. I took the rubberband cars for people to experiment with. Also there was an inertia table with “cup… Read more »