I spent yesterday morning and this morning teaching a Robotics Workshop for children. We ordered a kit from a 4-H Junk Drawer Robotics curriculum book and had lots of popsicle sticks, straws, marshmallows, rubber bands, and other fun materials to be super creative and make all kinds of STEM projects with. We made popsicle stick catapults, popsicle stick extended grabbers, bridges, and tons of other cool things! A big part of this workshop was to let the kids be creative and try to take something they envisioned and create it with materials. This was a success!
With the catapults we made, we discovered that heavier objects flew farther/better than light objects and we tried flinging ping pong balls, mini marshmallows, plastic Easter eggs, pieces of straws, and balls of duct tape to test our theory. We had a competition to see whose catapult could throw things the farthest, but it was pretty much the same.
Everyone used their imaginations and we used a lot of creativity over our 6 hour workshop!
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