We have been having lots of fun recently taking part in a wide range of STEM activities! Children across the whole school are taking part in exciting lessons, workshops and challenges.
 
​There are lots of engineering challenges happening in classrooms including spaghetti and marshmallow towers, paper bridge construction, towers made from cups and lollipop sticks, balloon rockets, paddles boats, paper helicopters, and even an egg parachute! We are also running a competition for the best invention in each class and there are lots of maths investigations and science experiments happening around the school too!
 
We also had some fantastic workshops taking place. Senior Infants, 2nd, 4th and 5th classes attended LEARN IT Lego engineering workshops.  Junior Infants, 1st and 3rd had BEE BOT programming workshops and 6th Class attended TECH CREATE workshops on Thursday April 19th.

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JUST IN CASE YOU WANT TO JOIN IN THE FUN, HERE ARE SOME ENGINEERING CHALLENGES YOU CAN TRY AT HOME! USE WHATEVER MATERIALS YOU HAVE SUCH AS PAPER, CARDBOARD, LOLLIPOP STICKS, PEGS, TOILET ROLLS, PAPER CUPS, STRING, STRAWS, EGG BOXES ETC.
 
1. BUILD A STRUCTURE THAT WILL HOLD A BOOK 6 INCHES OFF THE GROUND.
2. BUILD A STRUCTURE THAT WILL HOLD AN EGG 2 FEET OFF THE GROUND.
3. BUILD A BRIDGE FROM TABLE TO TABLE (6 INCHES APART OR SO) THAT MATCHBOX CARS CAN CROSS.
4. BUILD THE HIGHEST, FREE-STANDING STRUCTURE YOU CAN BUILD WITH JUST ONE SHEET OF PAPER.
5. MAKE PAPER AIRPLANES AND SEE WHICH DESIGN FLIES THE FARTHEST.
 
HERE ARE SOME LINKS FOR INSPIRATION:
WWW.ENGINEERSWEEK.IE          
WWW.PRIMARYSCIENCE.IE/       
WWW.STEPS.IE
WWW.PLAYDOUGHTOPLATO.COM/STEM-PROJECT-STRAW-BRIDGES/
HTTPS://THESTEMLABORATORY.COM/BACKYARD-ENGINEERING-PROJECTS-KIDS/
HTTPS://THEHOMESCHOOLSCIENTIST.COM/PAPER-STRUCTURES-ENGINEERING-CHALLENGE/
HTTPS://THEHOMESCHOOLSCIENTIST.COM/PAPER-STRUCTURES-ENGINEERING-CHALLENGE/