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This year about twenty 5th & 6th graders are participating in enrichment STEM projects & problem solving activities during Falcon time. Students have been part of engineering teams that design solutions & problem solve when faced with engineering challenges.
One of the first projects asked students to research & investigate different types of shapes including shapes contained in famous, tall structures. Students learned how shapes affect the construction & architecture of buildings. Teams of students were asked to design structures using only two shapes & three shapes on a 12 inch base.
Another small project involved students constructing a structure to hold an egg two feet above the ground using only 4 sheets of paper.
Students are presently designing parachutes centering around three different variables (type of material, length of strings and size of canopy).
In January teams of students may be designing houses to be lifted or flown using balloons, just like in the movie “UP”.
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