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Kids teaching Kids: Noodle Robots

You are never to young to study robotics. This pool noodle robot is a simple take on the “vibrobot”, a robot that is controlled by a single vibrating motor. The materials? A piece of pool noodle and the motor from a battery-powered toothbrush! The outcome? A self-built vibrobot!

Our Kindergarten students are participants GA’s Young Engineers initiative. Together with their upper school KTK buddies, they build fun projects that foster knowledge and skills related to science, technology, and engineering. We aim to instill a “do-it-yourself” attitude in our youngest students so they feel empowered to explore, tinker and try to make things themselves.

Kids Teaching Kids Pre K

The Kids teaching Kids program provides for interesting leadership opportunities for students in the sciences and engineering. Upper school students work individually with pre-K and Kindergarten students to complete fun and educational science experiments.

Students last week, started by observing a diaper and commented on its ability to hold the water that was added. They discussed the idea of water absorption and dissected the diaper to determine what material is responsible for this special property.  Students removed the tiny white crystals inside the diaper and tested their ability to absorb by adding water.  They were able to see the rapid expansion of the crystals and were encouraged to feel them to note the change in texture.  

Students then looked at an application of these water absorbing crystals filling  a small round mold with the crystals and soaked them in water.  The crystals interlock as they expand, and they maintain the round shape to produce a bouncing ball.