Afterschool School Space Club 2016 - Rocket Building!

Rocket Building! Watching rocket failures (from the movie, The Right Stuff), learning about Newton's Three Laws of Motion and practicing the engineering Design Method.

Preparing air rockets

Pop rockets!

Campus Party Quito 2015!

 What made the biggest impression on you?

• P.B. - The special needle for the 3D printers, and the magnet that changed the form of black oil!
• M.M. - The sensor in a baby carrier to see if a baby is still breathing!
• R.O. - Seeing how you can scan a face and then make it into a 3D figure!
• G.D. - Watching the drone fly in the air!
• L.R. - Hearing Rony tell about their club's invention of a water car!

Yachay University technology!

Holograms!

3D Printers!

Drones!

Smart walls!

Science experiments!

"Germ" experiments!

Role models!

Speaking of role models, here are Rony Torres (Leader of the Club Obelisco de Ciencia y Tecnologia in Machala, also finalist of last year's competition), Inti Condo (check out this impressive documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYCAXXCdxcs), and Jorge Glas (vice president of Ecuador, the night before).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inspiration Projects

Teacher note: Instead of homework (other than ongoing reading), students were given the opportunity to spend their time after school doing what they love. Here are some of their inspired projects: