Category: Booker T. Washington Elementary

Envision partnered with student groups from UIUC, including Illinois Aerospace Outreach, ASME, and Pi Tau Sigma, to host the second annual Booker T. Washington Family Engineering Fair with the help of the faculty and PTA at the school! We had 135 people in attendance who participated in several hands-on scientific and engineering activities. Some of these activities included:

• 3-D printing

• Elephant toothpaste

• Hydophobic water coasters

and other activities such as an Oobleck pool, balsa wood gliders, air cannons, ball runs, stomp rockets, and gumdrop domes!  Thanks to the 34 student volunteers who were instrumental in making this event happen!

Event Title: BTW Family Engineering Night

Location: Booker T. Washington Elementary, Champaign, IL

Date: November 29rd, 2016

The Family Engineering Night at Booker T. Washington (BTW) was a success! ENVISION partnered with BTW, ASME and Illinois Aerospace Outreach to plan a variety of engineering activities for students and their families to participate in.

These activities were

– Catapults

– Arts & crafts (holiday decorations) with circuits

– Fancopters

– Wind turbine blade designs

– Balancing robots

– DNA Extraction and DNA origami

The students (and parents!) learned a lot and more importantly, had a lot of fun doing science!

Event Title: BTW Family Engineering Fair

Location: Booker T. Washington Elementary, Champaign, IL

Date: April 23rd, 2016

The Family Engineering Fair at Booker T. Washington (BTW) was a success! Over 400 students came to the event and participated in the variety of activities we helped set up. Thank you to all the volunteers from ENVISION and Pi Tau Sigma for all of the their help!

The students and their families cycled through various hands on activities located throughout the park behind BTW. We partnered with the faculty and PTA at BTW, the Douglass Branch of the Champaign Library, Champaign Park District, ASME, and Pi Tau Sigma.

There were various smaller activities located in the park behind BTW Elementary:

• Gumdrop domes

• Egg carton vinegar battery
• Stomp rockets
• Slime
• Fog ring cannon
• Oobleck kiddy pool

• Mini ball run

• Wind turbine kits
• Elephant toothpaste

 

We also had 2 longer activities that students needed tickets for to participate:

• 3D printing

• Kaleidoscope Construction

To encourage students to participate in as many activities as possible, we created passports that the students would take around the fair with them. After completing an activity, the students would receive stamps. At the end of the fair, the students received prizes (such as gift cards to Jimmy Johns) depending on the number of stamps they had on the passports.

Read two great articles from I-STEM about the BTW Family Engineering Fair and our two co-founders here and here!

We hope to make this event even larger next year and open it up to the community!