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Getting Your Bearings
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In this activity, learners explore the concept of friction and how ball bearings reduce friction.

Making Sense of Sensors
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In this activity, learners explore sensors and focus specifically on how to measure humidity using a sensor.

Critical Load
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In this activity, learners explore the concepts of structural engineering and how to measure the critical load, or the maximum weight a structure can bear.

Pulleys and Force
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In this activity, learners explore the concept of force and how pulleys are used in everyday life to make work easier.

Measuring the Wind
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In this activity, learners explore how anemometers work to record wind speeds and how the equipment has undergone engineering adaptations over time.

Trebuchet Toss
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In this activity, learners explore trebuchet design. Teams of learners construct trebuchets from everyday materials.

Wingin' It
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Learners explore the Bernoulli effect by building an airfoil (airplane wing) and making it fly.

Water Rocket Launch
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In this activity, learners explore rocketry and the principals of space flight.

Sort It Out!
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In this activity, learners explore how engineers have developed sorting systems which integrate into manufacturing and packaging processes. Learners explore how coins are made.

Design and Build a Better Candy Bag
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In this activity, learners explore how product design differences can affect the success of a final product -- in this case a bag for holding candy.

Irrigation Ideas
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In this activity, learners explore how civil engineers solved the challenge of moving water via irrigation.

Give Me a Brake
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In this activity, learners explore the concept of how brakes can stop or slow mechanical motion.

Move That Lighthouse!
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In this activity, learners explore how engineers work in a team to solve problems.

Rescue Rover
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In this activity, learners explore how rescue devices are designed to aid professionals during emergency situations.

Can You Canoe?
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In this activity, learners explore how engineering has impacted the manufacturing of canoes over time, including the development of new, durable, and lighter materials.

Water Fountain
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In this activity, learners explore how a hydraulic pump works. Learners work in teams to design and build a unique water fountain that employs a hydraulic pump.

Bridge the Gap
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Learners work in groups to construct bridges using stale marshmallows and toothpicks.

Tennis Anyone?
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In this activity, learners explore sports engineering and advanced materials development.

EEEEK--A Mouse!
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In this activity, learners explore the concept of how engineering solved the problem of human/computer interface.

Two Button Buzzer Circuit
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In this activity, learners explore an everyday situation, where either of two or more buttons can ring a buzzer.