STEM Workshop for Middle School Girls: Eggsperimental Engineering Physics
Education in science and engineering should be designed to cultivate the intrinsic curiosity of young people. Innovative experimental approaches are particularly important for keeping students engaged. To support this endeavor in elementary schools, resources will be shared to introduce teachers to a series of activities that will help students connect concepts of engineering to experiments in the real world.
In this activity, students will study the motion of three eggs (one raw, one soft-boiled and the other hard-boiled), to explore concepts of center of mass and inertia. They will apply their observations to understand the operating principle of NASA’s Rotation and Interior Structure Experiment (RISE) - a radio science experiment onboard the InSight Mars lander. RISE precisely tracks the location of the lander to measure how much Mars' axis wobbles as it orbits the Sun. These observations will help determine whether the core of a planet is mostly liquid, and which other elements, besides iron, may be present. It will also explain why the gravitational force of Mars is lesser than that of Earth. Indeed, there is more to an egg than meets the eye!!!
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- Date: 05 Aug 2020
- Time: 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
- All times are (GMT-05:00) US/Eastern
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- Richmond, Virginia
- United States 23059
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- Co-sponsored by Full Steam Ahead
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