Description
We will need volunteers for the educational sessions with the middle and high school students to encourage and engage the kids in interactive engineering activities.
* Lunch /snacks will be provided and a parking voucher is available for the volunteers.
* Volunteer T-Shirts will be distributed to help better identify individuals for the students, parents, teachers and counselors to request help as needed.
MIDDLE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
*** Engineering Food***
o Bio engineering, chemical engineering (composition of water substrate, genetics of plants)
o Show ways to get food to mars and hydroponics and how they can be used to grow food and make O2
o Use a calorimeter to determine the calories in staple foods that will be taken to Mars
o Have them design a full set of meals for a day that meet nutritional needs and can be made with the materials that they bring or grow there
o Sculpt one element of the meal out of dough
***Balloon Astronaut***
o Bio-mechanical Engineering, structural engineering, space suit engineering (what materials to use in what order to support itself and the astronaut)
o Talk about suit and space station design and what materials are used to keep astronauts safe
o Fill small balloons with water and try to protect them from “micro-meteoroids” using various protective materials (each represent a suit/layer component)
o Taught using the scientific method
HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
*** SVO Rover Activity***
o Electrical engineering, mechanical engineering (electricity/wiring to make it run, actually constructing a machine that works) technology to make the rovers wireless
o Shows how we can explore Mars with limited risk to humans
o Rover race/competition to see whose works the best in each group
***Habitat Design***
o Civil engineering, industrial engineering and Technology
o Design a habitat that will meet all needs for protection as well as experimentation and living needs
o Must also meet space/size requirements
o Actually build the habitat
o 2 students using computer graphic software
o 3 students working hands on with simulated materials
*** Transportation/Rockets***
o Aerospace engineering, everything else engineering
o Show current forms of propulsion and experimental forms of propulsion as well as rocket/shuttle designs, then have them design their own with 2 liter bottles
o Each group get to launch water bottle rockets in the parking lot
* Lunch /snacks will be provided and a parking voucher is available for the volunteers.
* Volunteer T-Shirts will be distributed to help better identify individuals for the students, parents, teachers and counselors to request help as needed.
MIDDLE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
*** Engineering Food***
o Bio engineering, chemical engineering (composition of water substrate, genetics of plants)
o Show ways to get food to mars and hydroponics and how they can be used to grow food and make O2
o Use a calorimeter to determine the calories in staple foods that will be taken to Mars
o Have them design a full set of meals for a day that meet nutritional needs and can be made with the materials that they bring or grow there
o Sculpt one element of the meal out of dough
***Balloon Astronaut***
o Bio-mechanical Engineering, structural engineering, space suit engineering (what materials to use in what order to support itself and the astronaut)
o Talk about suit and space station design and what materials are used to keep astronauts safe
o Fill small balloons with water and try to protect them from “micro-meteoroids” using various protective materials (each represent a suit/layer component)
o Taught using the scientific method
HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
*** SVO Rover Activity***
o Electrical engineering, mechanical engineering (electricity/wiring to make it run, actually constructing a machine that works) technology to make the rovers wireless
o Shows how we can explore Mars with limited risk to humans
o Rover race/competition to see whose works the best in each group
***Habitat Design***
o Civil engineering, industrial engineering and Technology
o Design a habitat that will meet all needs for protection as well as experimentation and living needs
o Must also meet space/size requirements
o Actually build the habitat
o 2 students using computer graphic software
o 3 students working hands on with simulated materials
*** Transportation/Rockets***
o Aerospace engineering, everything else engineering
o Show current forms of propulsion and experimental forms of propulsion as well as rocket/shuttle designs, then have them design their own with 2 liter bottles
o Each group get to launch water bottle rockets in the parking lot