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Engineering Challenges

7/24/2012

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Morning Session Ages 6-9
The students completed three different projects this morning.

1. Tower Investigation
2. Wall Construction
3. Marshmallow Container Challenge

1. Tower Investigation
  • Explore towers built by civil engineers
  • Create towers using marshmallows and toothpicks (goal: build the highest tower that can stand on its own.)
  • Highest Towers: both 7.5 inches by Hunter and Chaya and the other by John and Mark.
2. Wall Construction
  • Build Lego walls in 15 minutes that fit specified parameters and pass a "flick test". 
  • Complete entry in "Engineer's Journal" 
3. Marshmallow Container Challenge
  • Construct box out of Legos in 20 minutes that will protect a bag filled with four large marshmallows (pictured below) from being squished by two blue textbooks (also pictured below). 

The children did not have any sort of model to go off of when building any of these designs.  Everything built came from their creativity and imagination, and each group completed each challenge with an amazing construction and an inspired design. 

Pictures 6 - 9 Year Old Group
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Afternoon Session Ages 9-12

The students completed two different projects this morning.

1. Wheel-less Car
2. Parachutes

1. Wheeless Car
  • Built a wheel-less car out of Legos
  • Figured out ways to make car move forward without wheels
2. Parachutes
  • Used variety of materials to create a parachute to get their Lego mini figure to the ground safely. 
  • Tested parachutes and made necessary revisions
1 Comment
Suzie Adamsky
7/24/2012 08:54:27 am

Thanks for the pictures and info - it's great to see the kids working on their projects!

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