London Bridge is Falling Down?

Our Second and Third Grade STEM Club members put their engineering skills to work yesterday, building bridges! There were four types of bridges they were required to build and test: a beam bridge, arch bridge, accordion bridge, beam bridge with arch support, and finally, and accordion bridge with a beam on top and a beam on the bottom! Phew! Hard work!

After testing each bridge, our students found the accordion bridge with the beams on the top and bottom would hold the heaviest loads! We learned the more support the bridge has, the heavier the load it can handle. We also talked about the importance of engineers building bridges correctly, as it can have disastrous results! (Check out the video of Gallopin' Gertie to see an example!)

Click the play button below to see Gallopin' Gertie!

Stay tuned to see what our fourth and fifth grade students were up to yesterday!

TOMORROW!

Don't forget Green STEM Club will meet tomorrow! December is a different month due to the holidays! See you then, and remember to wear your STEM T-Shirt!

November Happenings!

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ATTENTION!

This is a friendly reminder our schedule will be different in the upcoming weeks. We will meet three Tuesdays in a row! Due to the holidays, our December meeting dates do not follow the normal second and fourth Tuesday schedule.

Please mark your calendars. We will meet this Tuesday, November 27th, next Tuesday, December 4th, and the following Tuesday, December 11th.

Pumpkin Fun!

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We've Adopted...

Sea Turtles!

The Green S.T.E.M. Club has adopted two sea turtles through the Sea Turtle Conservancy. These turtles were released from the coast of Florida, and have satellite tracking devices on their shells. We will be able to follow our new friends to see where they travel!

Mrs. Rodriguez's group has adopted Pirate Patty!

Mrs. Owen's group has adopted Peach!

Follow this link to see where are turtle friends are currently traveling!

http://www.conserveturtles.org/satelliteturtles.php

T-Shirt Sample

Here is a picture of what the front and back our STEM Club shirts will look like! Click on the image above to view a bigger picture.

Remember the price is $8.00. A portion of the proceeds from T-Shirt purchases will go back to the STEM Club to aide with supplies and activities we will do this year. Parents are welcome to buy shirts as well!

Fourth and fifth grade members, please return your forms and money to Mrs. Rodriguez

Second and third grade members, please return your forms and money to Mrs. Owen