Engineering Kids Club
Come enjoy seeing what's inside a computer, a winter coat, and a ball bearing. Build a robotic car, a music box and construct all kinds of Lego engineering creations!
●For girls and boys ages 7+
●$35 for 6 classes
●Class held every Wednesday & Thurs from 3:30-4:30pm.
●At the Raptor Robotics Robot Room in Monticello, UT
starting Oct 11
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Plans for each day
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Engineering Merit Badge #1 -Select a manufactured item in
your home (such as a toy or an appliance) and, under adult supervision and
with the approval of your counselor, investigate how and why it works as it
does. Find out what sort of engineering activities were needed to create it.
Discuss with your counselor what you learned and how you got the information.
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Thurs
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Students will build and program a
LEGO car that uses gears or sensors to
travel quickly across a flat surface, but is also able to
climb a steep hill.
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Fri
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Music Box Ages: 7-11
Students will build and program a LEGO music
box to be controlled by the motion or proximity sensor. Students will program
the music box to make a LEGO person dance to music, using the motor and music
blocks. In doing so, they will explore the WeDo programming language.
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Thurs
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Snail Car Ages: 7-11
Students will build and program a LEGO car
that uses gears to travel as slowly as possible. The students will compete in
a snail race to see whose car is the slowest. The last to cross the finish
line will be crowned the winner.
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Thurs
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Sturdy Tower Ages: 5-11
Students will practice building sturdy
structures by constructing a sturdy LEGO tower using LEGO beams. The tower
must be able to support a stack of books.
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Thurs
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Drop Test Ages: 7-11
Students will determine the best structure
for a sturdy car. Students do not have to attach motors, but the car must
roll with wheels and skid plates. Each student pair will test their designs
by the drop test. This involves dropping their car from a height of 4in.
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Fri
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Strongest Shape Ages: 5-11
Students will investigate different shapes
to determine which shape is the strongest. Students will construct a roof to
be placed on a previously built house. The roof must reflect their shape
choice for the strongest shape. To test their structure, they will push on
the top of the roof to check its...
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Thurs
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Pumpkin Passenger Ages: 8-11
This is a great introductory activity to
mechanical engineering. Simple machine kits were used to create sturdy carts,
which would transport a pumpkin (orange marble) and its passenger (lego
figurine) down a ramp.
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Fri
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