Engineering Teams

Students will develop their analytical skills and become more aware of the world around them when they discover that everyday objects can be improved and redesigned (by them) to create something new and useful. Our engineering activities will provide a variety of experiments and projects that will explore new and unique STEM-related challenges.

Some of the engineering activites include:

Building Bridges: Students explore why bridges are shaped differently. Students distinguish between beam, arch, and suspension bridges and learn how bridge designs counteract and redirect forces and motion. In the culminating design challenge, students design, construct, and test their own bridges.

Spaghetti Marshmallow Challenge: This fun design/build exercise teaches some simple but profound lessons in collaboration, innovation, hidden assumptions, and creativity that are central to the engineering process.

Snap Circuits: Snap Circuits® uses building pieces with snaps to assemble different electronic circuits on a simple “rows-and-columns” base grid that functions like the printed circuit board found in most electronic products. Each component is easily identifiable by a different color and functional purpose.

Catapults: Students learn about catapults, including the science and math concepts behind them, as they prepare for the associated activity in which they design, build and test their own catapults. They learn about force, accuracy, precision and angles.