University of Pittsburgh awarded 2018 Blake Lilly Prize
OCT 01, 2018
University of Pittsburgh awarded 2018 Blake Lilly Prize
Zone and Chapter: University of Pittsburgh
Project
Project Name: New Brighton Elementary STEM Day
Project Description: University of Pittsburgh planned several hands-on demos to teach elementary students about gravity, forces, buoyancy, and surface tension. Four SPS members participated, built, and decorated tin foil boats to learn about buoyancy, balanced ping pong balls on hair dryers to explore gravity, demonstrated pressure differentials by sucking an egg into a flask, and learned about surface tension by balancing water droplets on a penny. The four-hour long program reached about sixty students in total.