8th graders working on the #marshmallowtowerchallenge @SLAMiddle the winning height for C Band was 21.5”

The winners from each class will face off at the end of the day to see who is the fastest. It’s also nice to read reflections with design justifications such as “we made our car lighter bc F=ma means that a set force will push a lighter car faster” and then have that happen

Racing CO2 dragsters in 8th grade today and tomorrow. This is a still of the winner’s bracket final. The car in the lead wound up losing by a length and a half. In the other class, purple and blue beat out black and blue by about a length.

New @SLAMiddle Fan powered Knex car record of 43 feet!!! After a first run of 0.5 feet, this was a huge improvement! Congrats to the car named CharlieBrown678 #whyiloveslams #makerspace #maker #preengineering #appliedmath

.@SLAMiddle students designing gadgets and vehicles for @extraordinaires #design #preengineering #whyiloveslams

.@Inventables Our x-carve has been calibrated! So excited to make our first project. Then 8th graders will design furniture for the hallways that encourages collaboration #makerspace #maker #make #xcarve #whyiloveslams

.@SLAMiddle Team Grandma VSCO beat the old SLAMS school record for farthest distance for a @KNEX fan-powered car with a whopping 449 inches! They also hold the record for efficiency (lowest cost per foot traveled) #AndIOop #sks #vsco #whyiloveslams #preengineering #appliedmath

.@SLAMiddle has a new record for greatest distance for a fan-powered car made of K'Nex. 454 Inches across the cafeteriad and a new efficiency record of $134.81 per foot #preengineering #makerspace #makers #make #whyiloveslams #knex

OH. MY. GEE. A student provided a link in her engineering portfolio to data from her project. Awesome job. Except instead of data, I got Rick rolled. #whyiloveslams

Prepping materials for my 6th grade pre-engineering class where they need to research a bird native to Philadelphia, learn about it, and then build a birdhouse that it would choose. We plan to donate these to a local wildlife rehab org. #whyiloveslams #makerspace #makers #make

Another day of prepping birdhouse materials. 6th graders are calculating surface area and volume of birdhouses and nesting boxes they build and then donate to local wildlife rehab orgs. #whyiloveslams #makerspace #makers #woodshop #ilovemygarage

.@Pennoni and @SLAMiddle Engineering mini course starts today! First task is a bridge design competition. @GormleyCivE hosts with other engineers coming by to lend a hand and their knowledge. #whyiloveslams #engineering #makers

One of our @SLAMiddle 6th-grade bird houses. Just need to do some finish sanding and check their theoretical volume and surface area with actual V and SA based on measurements. #whyiloveslams #makerspace #makers #preengineering #appliedmath

.@SLAMiddle 6th grade student staying after school to finish drilling and nailing her birdhouse. Tomorrow her group will do finish sanding and check volume and surface area of built item to their math on paper. #whyiloveslams #makerspace #girlsinstem #preengineering #appliedmath

.@SLAMiddle Today (and all week) we did a thing! Math is “more funner” when it is applied and there are drills & hammers and we safely use those drills & hammers. #whyiloveslams #myjobisbetterthanyours #preengineering #makerspace #makers #appliedmath