A collection of activities fostering STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) skills.
​Programable Starter Drone BUILD IT. CODE IT. FLY IT.
Take drones to the next level and give your drone instructions by programming it! The CoDrone is a small and light quad-copter drone which you can easily program to do whatever you want: let CoDRone follow you around, let it go through a maze or let it perform stunts. CoDrone will amaze you, whether you are new to drones and coding or you’re a long-time drone user.
Ever thought how you'd tie logs together and make a raft if you were stranded on a desert island? This ancient method of creating it produces very good results. Why not learn how to make rope?
Learn how to make a great paper airplane, and find out what makes it fly!
The Ultimate Paper Roller Coaster featured below is the brainchild of Andrew Gatt the creator of http://paperrollercoasters.com/ For a few dollars you can purchase your own set of templates (electronically) from Andrew and work in teams to experience physics through success and failure when you investigate energy, friction, gravity, velocity and acceleration. I've tried this and be aware it takes some hours to complete a successful model. My girl teams always shine in an activity perfect for year sixes.
Blooms: Strobe-Animated Sculptures from Pier 9 PRO 9 months ago / via Dropbox ALL AUDIENCESBlooms designed by John Edmark.
Published on Oct 2, 2015Alice Agogino's lab at the University of California, Berkeley and Vytas SunSpiral's team at the Dynamic Tensegrity Robotics Lab at NASA Ames Research Center are developing what could be the next generation of space exploring robots. And these robots are inspired by a baby toy of all things.
In the first episode of Re/code's new video series, “The 26%: Women Speak Out on Tech’s Diversity Crisis,” Leila Takayama of Google X discusses her early days at robotics pioneer Willow Garage, the importance of diverse perspectives in product design and how she has tackled subtle or explicit gender discrimination in her career.
​SUBSCRIBE: https://goo.gl/CEsJyN | TWEET: http://ctt.ec/53x52 | #natandloAs the saying goes...you’ve got to break it ‘til you make it. Or at least that’s what we learned when we visited Gabby (a hardware engineer and member of Google[x]’s Rapid Evaluation Team) to see how she prototypes and stress tests ideas in the Google[x] Design Kitchen.
Nat and Lo were curious to know what other Googlers have done as 20% projects, which led us to Winnie. (Spoiler alert: she’s a huge animal lover / fashion wearer.) And a few years ago, she started a 20% project to remove and automatically ban elephant ivory ads from Google Shopping.