4-H S.T.E.M Week
From July 25-29, 2022, S.T.E.M Friends partnered with Henrico 4-H to organize and run a S.T.E.M week were children from low income families were given lessons regarding chemical reactions, gravitational forces, and puzzle solving skills through our egg drop project, lessons on pyrography, and puzzle solving activities.
Jamestown 4-H camp
From July 11th-15th, 2022, STEM Friends partnered with Henrico 4-H at their annual Jamestown camp in order to teach engineering to young campers. This camp offered children from low income families a chance to learn various skills such as fishing, wilderness survival, canoeing, and many more offered by Jamestown 4-H. At this camp, STEM Friends made and explained the physics behind mouse trap cars, and gave campers a general understanding of thrust, gravity, tension, and friction using our water bottle rocket demonstration and mouse trap cars.
A Christmas Miracle
On December 11th, 2021, I used the help of 11 and 12 year-olds to save Christmas. The Grinch had planned to stop Santa from making his presents by rolling down giant snow balls to hit his workshop. We created a machine that was capable of catching the snowballs and throwing them back at the Grinch. This was a great experience because the kids who came definitely have gained a spark for robotics because of this fun little way to teach and introduce them to something new.
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EduMATH
July and August of 2021 I taught students how to program to make games such as, Click Alonzo, Snake, and Pong. I worked with SNAP! to teach the 4th and 5th graders how to make the Click Alonzo and Pong games using block coding. I also worked with a higher level of students where I used Python to teach a 7th and 8th grades how to make the Snake game and a working clock. The links for the working games will be provided bellow so you can make these and play them at any time.
Click Alonzo:
snap.berkeley.edu/snap/snap.html#present:Username=aditya_arora&ProjectName=Click%20Alonzo%202.0
Pong:
(Use "W" and "S" for the movement for the left paddle and the up and down arrows keys for the right paddle.)
https://snap.berkeley.edu/snap/snap.html#present:Username=aditya_arora&ProjectName=Pong2.0
Snake Game:
In the "Self-Paced Project" page