Event Title: Engineering Design Day
Location: Champaign Public Library
Date: September 22, 2016
The students rotated through three hands on activities during their time at the library.
At the catapult construction station, the students built catapults using craft popsicle sticks, rubber bands and hot glue. The students made adjustments to the launch angle and stick length to maximize the launch distance of various objects.
At the paper columns station, the students made columns using construction paper and learned that circular columns are stronger relative to triangular and square due to the lack of stress concentrations at the edges. The students then made adjustments to their columns to support the most amount of books as possible!
At the ball run station, the students were challenged to design a ball drop to move a ball along the wall in both the horizontal and vertical directions using the minimum amount of materials.
