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LED Dice

Once completed, tap the dice on the table and the LEDs light up and show a number from 1 through 6. After a short while, the LED dice goes into sleep mode, until the next time it is tapped. Easy to solder together, making it a great project for beginners.

45 mins
Grades 4-8 • Intermediate

Art Bot

Do you like drawing or painting? What if you could build a robot that creates its own art? In this project, you will create your own Art Bot, a robot with markers for "legs" that wobbles across a piece of paper, creating drawings as it moves. You can customize and change how it draws.

45 mins
Grades 1-5 • Beginner

Bristlebots

Students get hands-on engineering experience as they build a ircuit with a battery, pager motor, and the head of a toothbrush. Then they get creative by decorating their Bristlebots with colorful pipe cleaners and googly eyes, and watch as they buzz across hard surfaces!

45 mins
Grades 3-6 • Beginner

Simple Toy Boat

Use common materials to explore buoyancy and power! Design a working electric motor boat with this activity. Find your hull in the recycling bin (milk jug, foam tray, pool noodles, etc.). Add the motor, propeller and other components.

45 mins
Grades 3-6 • Beginner

Traffic Light Controller

This project is a great introduction to Arduino programming. The traffic light controller uses a red, yellow, and green LED to re-create a traffic light on your breadboard. It’s an easy way to get hands-on with writing and editing code.

45 mins
Grades 5-8 • Intermediate

Solar Cockroach

The Solar Cockroach is a little bug that uses the solar energy to power a vibrating motor. The vibrations from the motor travel down the legs, causing the bug to scoot around. These little vibrating bugs are essential tools for teaching beginning soldering lessons to students and adults of all ages.