3rd Howard County STEM Festival

Thank you for visiting our booth at the Howard County STEM Festival. We hope you enjoyed our display and activities and that you will stop back to visit our blog often. Click on the St. Louis logo on the upper left hand corner of the page to learn more about our school.

 

 

The instructions to build our "give aways" are below:

What's in the Bag?

This project is designed to embrace the Maker movement and inspire creativity. Students are asked to create a character with the items included in the bag. They are then encouraged to write a short story with their creation as the main character. The stories are read and recorded using the PixNTell.edu App and a picture of their creation.

 

 

Catapult Instructions

1.Stack 7 popsicle sticks together and wrap a rubber band around each end
2.Stack 2 popsicle sticks together and wrap a rubber band around one end
3.Slide the bundle of 7 sticks between the 2 sticks
4.Place a rubber band in an ‘X’ shape around the middle of the 2 sticks
5.Attach a spoon to the top popsicle stick with another rubber band
6.Test and have fun!
 
 
 
Additional Coding Resources
Interested in some coding resources? Below is a list of some of the sites and Apps used at St. Louis School. 
 
Code Websites
Alice http://www.alice.org/index.php
Blockly https://developers.google.com/blockly/
Code Academy http://www.codecademy.com/
Code Monkey https://www.playcodemonkey.com/
Hour of Code https://code.org/
Kodu  http://www.kodugamelab.com/about
Scratch Scratch.mit.edu
 
Code Apps
Scratch Jr.
Hopscotch
Kodable
Daizy the Dinosaur
Move the Turtle
Run Marco
Cargo-Bot