Spring 2015
Volume 1, Issue 1
Welcome to E-Struct Junior Engineers! Hi kids and parents! Thanks for joining our group! We’re thrilled to bits to be promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics activities and happenings for kids. Here’s a quick outline of how our group began. During National Science Week and Australian Engineering Week we ran a couple of giveaways to promote science and engineering skills for kids through our engineering business e-struct. This was well received by our clients and Engineers Australia and National Science Week coordinators. We formed the kids' club about a month ago after I finished publishing our company newsletter featuring an article about what
fascinated us about Science as kids. I turned to Jade, our receptionist, and said we need to create a facebook page for kids that profiles what's happening in our community for kids who like Science. She brilliantly suggested that we evolve this idea and form a group. Now at four hundred members, we’re so happy to see people support Science interests for kids. In any Our wonderful guinea pigs (our kids) had community, it’s easier to a ball exploring STEM ideas during the find Sport, Dance, Music and Art groups than to find September holidays at the e-struct office! activities promoting SciFor more photos and a list of experiments ence. We are fortunate to and activities, check out our Facebook have discovered and group! shared so many activities happening locally! that people are sharing their experiments, constructions, community STEM activities and online reJade and I would like to thank you so much for join- sources in our group. We are looking forward to ing in the fun! We love our hearing more from you soon and collaborating on all types of Science adventures! It’s just going to get group and are delighted bigger and better. Bridie :)
What is STEM? STEM stands for Science Technologies Engineering and Mathema cs and is just a handy acronym used to group these pursuits together. Last year the Australian government commi ed $12 Million to restore and improve STEM programs in schools including: introducing computer coding in primary school, running Summer school ac vi es with the
especial focus of suppor ng girls ,indigenous and remote students and disadvantaged students in building their skills, rethinking the way that Maths is taught to kids and introducing a Pathways in Technology program in high school. We value kids loving these skills and want to share the fun of exploring STEM ideas with you.
The beauty (and irony) of exploring STEM by seeing how capillary ac on of dyed water travels up through these chrysanthemum stems.
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Science
POTION POWER Make three magic po ons! What will you make? Colour in each test tube and don’t forget to label which is which! We don’t want any accidents!
Technology ROBOT REPAIRS! There are problems with these robots. They’re not built exactly the same way. Spot FIVE differences! Can you find them all?
UNJUMBLE! These words are mixed up. Connect them with their correct partner.
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Key
Drive
Hard
Pad
Inter
Ware
Mouse
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Memory
Work
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Board
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Volume 1, Issue 1
Engineering
Build a Tower
Draw a House
SITE SCHEDULE! Build a Sandcastle
You’ve received your work orders.
Play with a Toy that
How many things can you complete?
has Wheels
Mathematics DOTTY DIGITS! The file for this building didn’t print completely! Help the architect fix the plans! We’re coun ng on you!
How quickly can you solve this maze?
Here are some great pictures of the happy winners of our Na onal Science Week, Australian Engineering Week, e-struct and E-Struct Junior Engineers giveaways. Congratula ons kids, and thank you for sharing your wonderful photos! We hope you are enjoying your prizes. Stay tuned to our Facebook group for more compe ons coming soon! Where to find us…..
www.facebook.com/groups/estructjuniorengineers Our page is called “Kids’ Construc:on Ideas” or search for Bridie Briggs or Jade TriffiF to follow our boards.
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