April 16, 2018
Dr. Carol O'Donnell of the Smithsonian Science Education Center worked with 203 girls and boys at the fifth annual K-12 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Symposium on April 14, 2018 held at the Nysmith School in Herndon, Virginia. An estimated 4,000 students, parents, educators, and businesses and 50 exhibitors attended the event. Young students who worked with the Smithsonian were given an engineering design challenge to design, build, test, and redesign a vehicle to move at least one meter and then demonstrate their understanding of the science behind its motion. Students applied engineering principles as they moved the car using either gravitational potential energy, rubber band energy, wind energy, or hydro-electric power. There were 203 students who won the design challenge and were rewarded with a WiSTEM2D poster produced by Johnson & Johnson and the Smithsonian Science Education Center. The poster illustrates a variety of STEM2D careers students can enter and the degrees required for each.
Read more at https://stemsymposium.com/