STEM Day
Today was a busy day for me at the school. While I volunteer all the time... like three days a week... I usually only volunteer for less than 3 hours. However, today I was there all day. In the morning we prepped the bagels, eggs, cheese, and fruit and then sent it out the breakfast program for the entire school. Then we got ready for the STEM day event. We prepped more food and then after a short presentation in front of the parents who arrived, we as parents got to explore 4 different lego stations. 1. Bending Lego with 1X2 blocks. Seeing how you can make a circle and other shapes. Hadley later did this and made a crown. Then we did Lego car races learning about aerodynamics. We did Symmetry Lego on a board which Hadley's class also did later building something that was completely even on both sides. Then we programmed Lego robots to move. After this session we were free to go explore all the classrooms and their stem projects. Like I said, Hadley did bending Lego and symmetry Lego. Easton did Musical fruit electricity where he put a wire on his wrist that was set up to make an electrical connection through fruit and play an instrument as seen on a computer. He also played pong and packman and other games in the same way.
There were lots of other things going on. Marble runs, building cup towers, magnetic movement, building airplanes, virtual reality exploration and I think the day was enjoyed by all.