Student_Competitions


 * STEM Center Student Competitions**

In order to foster creativity and ingenuity in the STEM areas, the STEM Center will be hosting K-8 student competitions during the 2011-2012 school year. These competitions will have different themes and small teams of students from the surrounding communities will be invited to participate.

//**Going Green:**// One of the competitions will be to ask small groups of K-8 students from area schools to design their own solar powered toy car. The competitions will be between groups within three grade bands: K-2, 3-5, and 6-8. The following video illustrates the types of engineering and scientific problem solving that we are interested in seeing the students utilize when they are creating their car. The student in this video retrofitted a toy car that was designed to work on batteries and added a solar panel to provide alternative power for the batteries.

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