STEM
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. Today the SCC put together a STEM day with a grant that we got last from an application that we put in last year. The day included a morning of cutting up fruit and vegetables, setting up cheese and cracker trays, as well as dessert trays. Then an hour of key note speakers in the gym for parents where we got to build structures out of 20 pieces of spaghetti, one yard of painters tape, one yard of yarn, and one marshmallow. The idea was to build the tallest structure possible in 18 minutes to hold the marshmallow at the top without puncturing the marshmallow. Our structure did not hold up at all. But it was fun.
In Hadley's room her group was given sponges, tongue depressors, cotton balls, dish soap and a few other items to try to clean up a simulated oil spill. (A bin full of water with oil in it). Easton's group was given 40 jube jubes and as many tooth picks as they needed to build the tallest structure they could in 18 minutes.
After school we went to buy supplies. With mini marshmallows and tooth picks, we had our own competition for tall structures. Then we built a bridge as a family. There was a suspension element added and then names were made with tooth picks and marshmallows.
What a fun day.