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After a busy day off site at the Center for Applied Energy Research, we are back on track and on campus! The students really enjoyed the different activities! They learned about Newton’s Laws through Newton’s Cradle, explored energy through balloons, rubber bands, and masking tape; learned about computer coding by human coding; and built some motors. It was a great fun-filled day! I hope everyone slept well last night 🙂
Today they applied the design engineering process engineers use on a daily basis to different activities. Some students built dams/levees and others did a balloon and origami activity.
In robotics, they really dove into their challenges and we had many many successes! The students are really excited about how far they have come on their programming knowledge and are celebrating their successes each time. It’s so much fun to watch the excitement and ah-ha moments!
In their words…
what did you learn about today that you did not know before?
- Adding weight makes a balloon bounce high
- Magnets can make current with conductors
- I learned how energy never gets dystroyed it just will change the type of energy. I also learned how to make a balloon bounce with tape, washers, and rubberbands
- How energy is conserved through architecture, other types of engineering, the process of oil creation, how to make a motor
- Pipelines are the most efficient way to transport gasoline
- I learned a fridge is more energy efficient than a coffee maker even if it runs 24/7
- I liked it because it showed how inertia works
- I liked making DC motor and learning biomass and non-renewable energy while playing a game
- Different stations allowed us to go different places and do different things
- It was interactive + the instructors seemed to care about the topic
- no because there were all diverse subtopics residing under one main focus-energy
- no, I loved it!
- no, twas not boring
- Yes because it is interesting and very fun too
- I would want to learn more about fuels since it’s a more important topic.
- Yes, it’s fun & helps prepare me for my future occupation
- I would like to learn more about how to be smart bulding houses that conserve energy
- Yes because i would either like to be a software engineer/programmer or an architect and i would need to use energy conservation in that
Conversation Starters…
- What process did you use today to engineer your dam/levee?
- How do you decide to program your robot? What challenges did you and your partner accomplish today?
- How do we preserve energy?
- What is the most efficient fuel?
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