1. Sharon Bowers, NIA Educator-in-Residence Elana Slagle, Educational Consultant 48 th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting January 6, 2010

2. Tonight’s Goal

3. Know your audience When it comes to STEM, I’m …STEM, –A scientist –A technologist –An engineer –A mathematician

4. Why are you here?here?

5. Why we hope you’re here …

6. Science is the study of what Is, Engineering builds what Will Be. The scientist merely explores that which exists, while the engineer creates … what has never existed before. Theodore VonKármán, c.a. 1957 Engineers and Scientists

7. Scientific Method … Black Boxes

8. Engineering Design Process … Black Boxes

10. How do you describe what you do?

11. An engineer is most like …  Snickers  3 Musketeers  Twix  Milky Way Four Corners

12. ``What you need to invent, is an imagination and a pile of junk.'' Thomas Edison

13. The challenge: Use the materials provided to make a flying object that travels further than all others. You must be ready to test your flying object in 10 minutes.

15. SCAMPERSCAMPER How have Oreo cookies changed over the years? Why have they changed? Substitute Combine Adapt Magnify or minify Put to other use Eliminate Reverse or rearrange SCAMPER

16. Re-design …you have 15 minutes before you need to demonstrate your new design.

17. Snowball Battle 3 things I like 2 things I can teach 1 way to extend

18. Using the materials provided, create a hot air balloon. The competition … Can your hot air balloon stay aloft longer than any other hot air balloons, initially powered by 30 seconds of hot air from a hair dryer? Team Challenge

19. Musts … Use no more than 7 sheets of tissue paper You will only have 30 seconds of hot air from a hair dryer You have 30 minutes to complete your balloon. Mays … You may follow either set of directions or create your own design. Team Challenge

20. Connecting to Standards Position and motion of objects–NSES K-4 Pushing/Pulling Motions and forces –NSES 5-8 Describing Motion Newton’s Three Laws of Motion Motions and forces –NSES 9-12 Newton’s Three Laws of Motion Gravity

21. Connecting to Standards Properties of objects and materials–NSES K-4 Observable and measurable properties Properties and changes of properties in matter–NSES 5-8 Characteristic properties Structure and properties of matter–NSES 9-12 The physical properties of compounds reflect the nature of the interactions among its molecules and atoms.

22. Science and Technology –NSES K-4 Abilities of technological design Understanding about science and technology Abilities to distinguish between natural objects and objects made by humans. Science and Technology –NSES 5-8 and 9-12 Abilities of technological design Understanding about science and technology Connecting to Standards

23. Resources

25. When did you know … Resources

26. Humor

27. More Humor

28. Wordle Review

29. Animoto Documentation

30. ENGAGE EXPLORE EXPLAIN EXTEND ENJOY