Recently, Paoli had a family STEM Night with various activities. They were demonstrating their 3D printer and laser cutter, as well as some robots. They had a couple of tables with science experiments, someone had a VR experience. I had stomp rockets. We quickly hit the ceiling in the cafeteria, so we started launching at… Read more »
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AvondaleMeadowsMiddleSchool
35 students and 3 educators from Avondale Meadows Middle School came to visit IU campus to get a glimpse at college life. They get an activity and a tour of a classroom building, dorm, and dining hall. The activity was a cardboard prototyping project. Design something. One group designed a special hearing aid, one did… Read more »
Circuits
There are various ways to get started with circuits (batt & bulb ; paper circuits ; circuit blocks…) At the Unionville Elementary 4th grade science class, we started with the kits they had been exploring and they remade a series circuit. Then we switched up and gave them an LED & a battery and they… Read more »
UnionvilleElemKcoding
I borrowed the Tale-Bots from the TTL in School of Education and headed out to Unionville Elementary. They had some Bee-Bots, so we were able to pair kindergarten students up on a bot. We talked about what it meant to be robotic (sense, think, act) and which directions our typical bots can move (forward, backward,… Read more »
SWE-WOW
SWE WOW Is a Girl Scouts event for them to get some hands on experience in Engineering. They built catapults and worked with a solar sail. Our session was electricity/circuits. The older ones lit up an LED with a battery, then used alligator clips to connect it. Next we code a micro:bit to turn the… Read more »
Crawford4Hlaser
Spent an evening at the Crawford County 4-H office helping them (7 people) learn how to use their laser. We utilized the noun project for images and Cuttle for design. At the end we learned about using the camera to scan a hand drawn image.
NorthDaviessElemSTEM
We participated in the North Daviess Elementary School STEM night. There were about 100 students that came through. We had LED’s & batteries out, as well as some pipe cleaners. But the big draw was everyone wanted to make a button. It was NON-STOP button making…with a little bit of reading mixed in (they had… Read more »
4-HExpo
Feb 17th was the Monroe County 4-H Expo at the Fairgrounds. Lots of tables showing interested youngsters what 4-H is all about and the myriad of things you can do in it. I had an activity table for youngsters to do a “make & take”. Just the typical pipe cleaners for bracelets and LED’s/batteries to… Read more »
BlackMarket2024
February 17th was the annual Black Market by Bloomington Parks & Recreation Department. They have a mix of small black business vendors and some activity tables. We had a few things out for people to work with. We had plus-plus building parts and pipe cleaners. We had some 3D printed articulated animals and a stop… Read more »
OETC24
I went over to Columbus Ohio for the annual Ohio Educators Technology Conference (OETC). There were a few makerspace sessions and a couple of Maker playgrounds that I helped out at. One group was showing shrinky dinks and using a heat gun to shrink them I reconnected with some people and had some good education… Read more »