{"id":11237,"date":"2023-02-28T20:51:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T02:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/?p=11237"},"modified":"2023-02-28T20:51:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T02:51:37","slug":"official-and-unofficial-science-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2023\/02\/28\/official-and-unofficial-science-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Official and Unofficial Science Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jack has been working hard on his science fair project for the last month. He had a difficult time coordinating with the school schedule to get data from fellow orchestra students, but in the end he put together a really great project. He measured the decibel levels of the orchestra stringed instruments to see which was the loudest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Recently Sam’s class had another Makey-Makey STEM unit. They built talking boards. He immediately came home to make his own. He noted how great it was that I had cardstock and even metal brads in our office supplies, and Scratch Jr coding already on his home chromebook – it helps to have a crafty mother and nerdy father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He demoed the board to Ben, and then he lost the data on his computer before I could see it. Poor guy was disheartened. Kids these days rely on auto-save too much! Meanwhile, I had been 3d printing cases for the classroom Makey-Makey sets. When I got a new printer bed (it had cracked), I made a case for Sam’s Makey-Makey out of special glow-in-the-dark PLA filament. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That gave him the motivated he needed to rebuild the code. Once complete again I had him give me a full tour of his project:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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