Teaching Cybersecurity
This ETP will address teaching cyber safety to staff and high school students.
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What's in a formula
This laboratory exercise encourages students to perform data collection, and learn how to use formulas at the same time. Students will design a cantilever object using tongue depressors. The tongue depressor will be a substitute for a physical 2x4 beam.
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Where Does the Cloud Live?
The VBLOCK system is the industry standard for Converged Infrastructure, which integrates multiple components into an optimized computing package. Together with virtualization software, it forms an important foundation for modern Cloud computing and managing modern data centers.
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Catapults (Stephen Curry Machines)
The goal of this ETP is to engage students with a hands-on engineering design challenge. Students will spend time designing, testing, and redesigning small-scale catapults. They will make two catapults: a prototype (what this lesson covers) and a final design (not included in this lesson).
Designing Vehicles with Common Products
Students will work in teams to design solar powered vehicles that use common products. Examples of common products the students use for their solar vehicle include wheel assemblies and/or chassis. The purpose of the vehicle is to investigate collisions.
Laser Maze - Reflection, Transmission, and Absorption
Laser Maze is an activity that will engage students in learning and utilizing the properties of light waves, such as reflection, transmission, and absorbance, as well as highlighting the importance of these properties in research use by having students create mock ‘pump-probe’ experiments.
Solar Array for EV Charging Station: Design and Construction
A Solar Array is the main component of a PV system that requires a precise design, and is constructed based on the needs of a PV system. The energy needed to operate, charge or maintain a system is determined by the operational requirements and capacity of the system and Solar Array.
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Terminal Velocity of a Sphere in Liquid
Quantifying the sedimentation velocity (terminal velocity) of a spherical particle in a liquid is of importance because it relates to areas in industry that process and transport suspensions of particles.
The Math of Missiles and Rockets
Throwing an object across the classroom is an example of a parabolic trajectory. Students will be able to experiment with a tennis ball, with paper and later on, with a constructed mini-rocket.