In this activity, students are encouraged to collaborate to come up with a boat design that is both able to float for at least 15 seconds on its own, and is able to hold the most marbles. The boat must be created with the following materials and is subject to personal design choice. (Students don’t need to use all of the materials, just what they see fit). Try it out!
Materials provided for this activity: 2 coffee filters 1 piece of paper 12 inches of aluminum foil 2 index cards 3 straws 8 popsicle sticks 85 marbles (can substitute with pennies) A roll of tape A pair of scissors Results: The activity proved successful as it encouraged teamwork and creativity across many age groups. Children were able to practice the engineering process by brainstorming, developing their prototypes, testing their prototypes, and making changes to their design to help their boat meet the requirements. The activity demonstrated popularity as the activity was more hands-on/allowed children to be innovative and original. By Gabrielle Navarro, GBLA 2023
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In this activity, you will be creating a cardboard hand using many items that you are able to find around the house. You will be able to control the cardboard hand that you create using your actual hand.
Try this at home:To begin, you will need these materials that can be found around the house:
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By Nick Murillo, GBLA 2023 Students were instructed to build a tower using only clay & skewer sticks that would withstand a simulated earthquake for a period of time. The earthquake would be stimulated by a shake plate, which is a wooden plate that vibrates at a certain speed.
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By Martha Santos, GBLA 2023 The Goal of the Balloon Drop Activity is to create a landing pad that will be placed on the floor and would be able to catch a water balloon without the balloon popping.
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The finished landing pad will be placed on the floor while someone gets onto a high surface ready to drop the water balloon onto the landing pad. Once those two things are set up, the water balloon will be dropped and then we can see if it popped or if the landing pad was able to prevent that from happening. By Paloma Cortes, GBLA 2023 The self-powered is something fun which everyone from all ages can create. It can be created from materials that can be found at home, and can be easily made in less than half an hour. The concept of a self powered car is to create a car that is able to move itself without the help of outside forces. During our fair people were able to create their own individual self powered cars. They were given the freedom to customize their car in any way they wanted. Once they were done they were able to test how far it could go with one of our volunteers.
If you are willing to give it a try, here are the instructions! Materials
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By Jennifer Hernandez, GBLA 2023 On behalf of our entire GBLA team, we'd like to thank Josie Maran for their generous donation of makeup, skincare, and other goodies for our STEM fair. We were thrilled to be able to raffle off these amazing products to our GBLA members and all of the guests at the STEM fair. Your support and generosity made a difference and contributed to the success of the STEM fair. Click here to check out Josie Maran products. If you're interested in seeing a skincare routine from one of our project managers, please click here.
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During the STEM fair, all of our guests participated in these STEM-based activities. If you're interested in trying them out at home, here's how! |