July 11th - 15th is Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (STEM) camp week here at the Mesabi Range Community and Technical College. During this week, 7th-10th grade students will be doing activities that relate to STEM. This year's focus is on Natural Disasters. The interns at IRE have signed up to lead two activities that engage the students in an engineering perspective. Being that the focus is on natural disasters, we chose to model flooding and hurricanes. In two hour blocks, the students will be split into groups to design a solution for the given problems. In the flooding activity, the students are to create the best way to control water when flooding occurs. This will be done by giving them a platform for them to mold river beds. At the end, water will be released at the top of these platforms to see how it gets distributed. The team with the most water control wins. For hurricanes, the task will be to design a structure with a given set of materials. When the groups have finished, they will test to see if their structure stands against an industrial fan. There will be five different distances at which the fan is placed to model different strength hurricanes. This will be a great way for IRE to give back to Mesabi's campus and also to create relations.
Proofed by Andy L
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