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Motorized Balancing Toy
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In this activity, learners build a toy that flies in circles. This activity introduces learners to center of mass, torque, and rotational motion.

Motor Bird
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In this activity, learners build a bird that flies in place with help from a motor, wire, and some straws.

Cylindrical Wing
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In this design and physics challenge, learners construct a cylindrical wing, fly it, make modifications, and determine how the changes affect flight patterns.

Sound Automata
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In this activity, learners build their own sound machines and explore the interplay of motion and sound.

Cranking Bird
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In this activity, learners build a mini crank machine to make a bird "fly." This engineering activity introduces learners to automata, rotational motion, cranks and cams.

Gearing up with Robots
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In this activity, learners experiment with gear motion to understand how gears work to change the amount of force, speed, or direction of motion in machines.

Garden Poles
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In this activity, learners build large-scale structures and cantilevers in a series of "building out" challenges with garden poles and tape.

Paper Bridges
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In this activity, learners build bridges using paper and explore how much weight each bridge design can support.

Straws and Pins
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In this activity, learners build bridges and cantilevers in a series of "building out" challenges with straws and pins.

Statue Display Tower
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In this activity, learners design, build, test and redesign a display tower that will meet a specific set of criteria and constraints.

Newspaper Bridges
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In this activity, learners build bridges out of newspaper and tape to explore how structures are designed to bear loads.

Skewers and Garden Poles
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In this activity, learners build scaled-down structures and cantilevers in a series of "building out" challenges with bamboo skewers and tape.

Micro Automata
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In this activity, learners build small animated toys that move.