Cool Activities
Turn Your Trash Into Treasure and Win $10,000
Click here for the flyer or visit
http://pbskids.org/designsquad/contest/index.html
What’s up with his hair?
Computer Science Professor Amit Jain lost a bet a while back and ended up having to dye his hair red. This is the photo record of the process. But when he’s not dying his hair, Jain runs the annual High School Programming Contest (held in March) in the College of Engineering. Test your programming skills with his collection of previous competition programming problems. Have Fun!
Shape Derby – An Exercise in Kinetic Energy
ENGINEERING CURRICULUM CONTEST FOR K-12 TEACHERS
For the first time ever, K-12 engineering educators will have the chance to highlight their creativity and technical know-how. Engineering Education Rocks! is the theme for the EESC’s 1st curriculum competition. Submit your best engineering activities and win $1,000’s in prizes! Contest ends on April 30, 2009.
http://www.engineeringedu.com/contestcurr.html
Hands-on activities and project-based learning are fun and effective ways to help students learn and retain more math and science concepts. By choosing to teach engineering, educators can help students make the links between classroom learning, their everyday lives and the wider world. Project based learning can help students visualize abstract science and math concepts. Using hands-on activities, engineering design serves as the bridge to bring color to math and science concepts. This bridge makes our designed world more understandable, relevant and fun.
Three Categories:
1. Elementary School Activities (grades 1-5)
2. Middle School Activities (grades 6-8) and
3. High School Activities (grades 9-12).
Winners in each category will receive a book of all winning curriculum and a certificate. In addition, we will also award each category with grand prize, second place and third place prizes:
Grand Prize: $500 Shopping Spree
Second Place: A Set of Classoom Posters
Third Place: Set of DVDs