Digital STEM Challenges
Sphero Golf
Constraints:
- Code Sphero to complete each hole.
- A hole is complete when you knock over the marker
- Keep accurate score on your scorecard data spreadsheet
- Each time you hit “run” in Lightning Lab it counts as a stroke.
- You will be coding on the fly. Play the Sphero where it lies!
- You must setup the hole according to the maps found below
Sphero Out-n-Back
Constraints:
- Code Sphero to drive out, around the marker, and back
- Your Sphero must return to within 1 foot of the starting location
- If you knock over the marker you are automatically disqualified
- The fastest team to complete the Out-n-Back course (measured to the nearest hundredth of a second) is the winner!
Analog STEM Challenges
NASA LCROSS Moon Mission
NASA LCROSS Mission Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0ZiYFbenrY
Task: Drop 2 marbles (a big and a little) accurately onto a target (a box of sand) while travelling down a zipline. The average distance between the two marbles will determine which group was most successful.
Constraints:
- 3 index cards
- 2 feet of masking tape
- 1 cup
- 5 paper clips
- 1 big marble
- 1 little marble
- 4 yards of string
*You may use scissors
The Marshmallow Tower
Can you build the tallest tower using only spaghetti, tape and string? The tower has to hold a marshmallow as far off the Surface as possible!
Constraints:
- 20 pieces of spaghetti
- 1 yard of masking tape
- 1 yard of string
- 1 marshmallow
- 18 minutes of time – NO MORE!
When your time is up please measure (to the closest centimeter) how tall off the surface the highest point of the marshmallow is.
Professional Resources
RTI Student Database and Management
- Keeping all of the RTI2 rolls and rosters accurate and easily managed is critical to your school’s intervention success.
- I have employed a database query system within all within Google Apps using AutoCrat from New Visions for Public Schools.
- This querying tool drives all parent notifications and letters and is of most interest to most people seeking easier ways to manage to the overload of RTI paperwork. Using this tool streamlines, automates, and documents your parental correspondence.
The query template I have created is linked via the image below:
The resulting PDF to be printed and sent home is this:
