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The Lab
Joined August 2014
Testing that a barge will fit under a deep beam bridge engineered by two 1st graders @vpirio
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Kinders engineering insects with structures that function as sensory input or moving about on wings and feet.
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Testing design for capturing water for reuse. Improving design glitches--engineering process in action.
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Success! Roof catches water and funnels it to storage container.
Engineering a dog house roof to catch water and store it for future use.
Designing and engineering seeds to mimic nature by floating, gliding, or exploding to get away from the parent plant.
NJ Kinders figuring out that slope and speed matter in a rollercoaster-like runway system.
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Success!! Girls engineering.
2nd grade designing sails for windmills to learn about alternative energy sources.
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4th graders testing response time of their hands vs. their feet while studying the central nervous system. Why are our hands faster?
Potential energy or kinetic energy?
Creating a simple machine, the pulley, to keep the kinetic energy moving through the Rube Goldberg machine.
3rd graders creating Reuben Goldberg machines to show the transfer of energy from one object to the next.
Will mass be conserved if there is a chemical reaction? These 5th graders are finding out!
First graders playing with their engineered "castle-train".
Engineering carts and testing new designs to roll farther, faster, and straighter to be the champs.
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Kinders figuring out what air can do!
Students learning how to make light reflect off underside of tables using mirrors & flashlights.
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