Invite us to Visit Your Junior High and High Schools
The John and Marcia Price College of Engineering would like to be invited to visit junior high and high schools to encourage students to consider engineering as a major and a career.
Please fill out the form below. Activity descriptions can be found at the bottom of the page.
Request a Visit Form:
Balloon Rockets
Discover technology that makes space exploration possible and gain first-hand insight into the concepts of aerodynamics. To achieve this, students create balloon-powered rockets and test how far each will travel.
Designed For: Junior High Classes
Time: 45 minutes
Catapults
Learn about forces, such as tension, and the motion that can occur as a result. Students will construct a catapult and determine which length of level is most effective. Adaptations include: engineering a catapult that launches three feet and another that launches 40 feet. With each adaptation, students create a graph and analyze the data.
Designed For: Junior High and High School Classes
Time: 45 minutes
Cookie Processes
Cookies introduce students to process engineering. Students will explore food processing by creating a mechanism that generates a large quantity of identically frosted cookies.
Designed For: Junior High and High School Classes
Time: 40 minutes
Diaper Polymer
This interactive project teaches students super-absorbent polymers. They will dismantle different brands of diapers to determine which brand absorbs the most moisture.
Designed For: Junior High and High School Classes
Time: 60 minutes
Gum Drop Towers
Learn about the materials and technology used to build skyscrapers. After discussion, students will build a structure and test its strength through an earthquake.
Designed For: Junior High and High School Classes
Time: 30 minutes
Heart Valve
Heart valve function introduces students to fluid dynamics. Students will construct a heart valve that only allow fluids to travel in one direction.
Designed For: High School Classes
Time: 60 minutes
Paper Rockets
Introduce your students to aerodynamics. They will equip paper tube rockets with fins of varying shapes and sizes and launch them with a bike pump launcher.
Designed For: Junior High and High School Classes
Time: 45 minutes
Robots
Students are introduced to basic computer programming, and learn how to program a robot that will undertake certain commands. Depending on time, other programming challenges are presented, including mazes.
Designed For: Junior High and High School Classes
Time: 45 – 60 minutes
Roller Coasters
Potential and kinetic energy are demonstrated as students create a track to move a marble from one point to another.
Designed For: Junior High Classes
Time: 20 minutes
Spaghetti Towers
Students construct towers using pasta and other “cement.” Each structure will then undergo height testing.
Designed For: Junior High and High School Classes
Time: 60 minutes
H2O (Water) Bottle Rockets
Bottle rockets teach students about air pressure and aerodynamics. After constructing a bottle rocket, they will use trigonometric functions to determine the maximum height of their rocket’s launch.
Designed For: Junior High and High School Classes
Time: 60 minutes
Wind Turbines
Students examine how turbines generate electricity by constructing wind turbine blades that generate enough voltage to light an LED.
Designed For: Junior High and High School Classes
Time: 45 minutes