Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “STEM Projects”
Here at Thimble.io, we celebrate National Coding Week with a shared mission: to foster the love and learning of digital languages, and, more prominently, to close the skills gap in the United States. While we certainly value learning for learning’s sake, we’re aware of the economic realities that students will face once they graduate into the workforce. 67% of all …
Can’t Find Someone Willing to Champion Your STEM Club? A STEM Club is only sustainable with a reliable captain at the helm. Thanks Captain Obvious.
STEM is already an integrative approach to science, technology, engineering, and math. Is throwing STEM and English/Language Arts into the same boiling pot asking for trouble? We’re here to tell you no!
Science and engineering projects for kids sound anything but simple to busy parents. Visions of poster board, hot glue, and tears flash before their eyes. But simple machine projects for kids really are, well, simple. They’re much easier than many other STEM projects because they involve just the basics of engineering and physics – and very few parts. A simple machine is …
Hi Thimblers, In honor of National STEM Day on November 8th, our team here at Thimble is running a contest to bring our students together and see who has what it takes to create a fun and/or useful project using components in their kits. Eligibility: All Thimble subscribers may register for the Thimble STEM Contest. Register: If you’d like to …
We live in a world where so much of an educator’s time is spent “teaching to the test,” – leaving precious few minutes for authentic, hands-on learning projects. Throw in pandemic-forced “hybrid” scheduling, and those project-based learning opportunities get even more difficult to integrate. STEM Clubs are a fun and effective way to bridge that gap. STEM Clubs allow students …
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away… We showed you how to make a lightsaber! That’s right, with a bit of innovative engineering, you can create something akin to the infamous blade of light. Don’t expect to be slicing through Darth Maul or going head-to-head with Darth Vader anytime soon, though… …you need the force for that. Ready to get started? …
What’s up with that headline? You can imagine the frustration a parent feels when their child asks them how to build a robot. I think it’s written in the imaginary Handbook for Parenting that every kid asks their parents this question at least one time. (It’s right there in Chapter 6: Unanswerable Questions Every Kid Asks. It’s right beside, “If a …
Once a kid gets started in STEM, their next goal becomes improving their skills and developing more techniques and understanding. STEM kits are great for improving STEM skills because they come in a variety of difficulty levels, and because many of them include reusable or modular parts that lets kids get creative and try their own unique projects. Here are 8 awesome …