Event Title: Math & Summer Camp at Urbana Middle School (UMS), in partnership with POETS
Location: University of Illinois
Date: June 7th, 2016
The summer 2016 partnership with POETS kicked off with a great morning on the Engineering Quad at the University of Illinois. Students from UMS came to campus to learn about solar cars. We also reviewed the distance = rate * time formula, the equation for the circumference of a circle, and how the circumference can be used to calculate the distance traveled.
The students first built the solar cars indoors and took some measurements to prepare for speed measurements outdoors.
We then took the solar cars outdoors and predicted how long the cars would take to move a certain distance. Thankfully the sun was out to fuel the solar panels!
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Thank you to POETS and UMS for providing the solar car kits we used for the activity!
Click here to see the handouts we made for this solar car activity.