Science/Engineering Challenges
Throughout the year, we use small 1-week STEM challenges to give kids a break from their quarter long projects. These are usually 1-2 day projects that promote team building, collaboration and quick problem solving. The students are given a challenge with specific time constraints, partners, and limitations. Below are highlights from just a handful of these challenges we have done throughout the last 2 years of this class.
I have also included some of the challenge sheets below for easy access to the project requirements!
Index Card Towers
Addison Marschman & Kenrick Schoenrock
Cups, Cubes and Craft Sticks
Jace Snook & Chandler Dragoo
Foil Boats
Aiden Pavelka & MaiLee Garner
Candy Corn Towers (Ben Starr & Aldo Ramos)
Pringle Rings Challenge (Aiden Novotny)
Balloon Powered Cars (Korey Nippert, Landon McBride and Leah Bridgmon)
Kinetic Sculptures (Aiden Pavelka & Kenrick Schoenrock)
Classroom Catapults (Reese Stone, Leah Bridgmon, Korey Nippert, Jace Snook & Dalton VanLaningham)
Solo Stacking Cups Partner Challenge (Destiny Vocelka & Molly Hansmire)
ESU 5 Robotics Competition (Addison Marschman, Korey Nippert, Landon McBride, Aiden Novotny)
Classroom Catapults
Walker Nickel tests his classroom catapult using a marshmallow.
Kinetic Sculptures
James Martin and Daniel Creekbaum test their Kinetic Sculpture using wind power (blowdryer).