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Cyber Security: Hiding Personal Data from Prying Eyes

November 11, 2015 11:25 AM

There's a science to keeping your personal data and possessions secure, both online and off. Experiment and discover ways to thwart would-be criminals with RFID, password, and robotics student science projects! By Kim Mullin Above: A hands-on STEM project from Science Buddies guides students in an exploration of RFID tags and security. The Keeping It Private: Blocking RFID Readers from Reading your ID Card project challenges students to test materials and design protective cases or dividers… Read more

Computer Programming for Better Health

November 10, 2015 8:00 AM

Tools like AppInventor encourage students to explore computer programming by creating simple, functional apps. With improved healthcare management in mind, students are challenged to design an app that can help a patient or caregiver. By designing tools that can be immediately useful on a personal level, students can really see the power of using code to design their own apps. Using diabetes as an example, explore the ways students might program a helpful application. … Read more

Dancing Water Droplets

November 6, 2015 1:00 PM

With this week's fun family science activity, you can create an exciting visual display using water and food coloring! How do water droplets react on a surface material? Do they roll off? Do they disperse? Do they move together? How do they react to each other? Depending on the surface material and the liquid, you may find that droplets move in a variety of different ways. These patterns of movement demonstrate several different science principles. What determines whether droplets spread… Read more

Candy Color Chromatography

October 30, 2015 10:30 AM

With the Candy Chromatography Science Kit, students can unlock the colors that make up the coatings on favorite candies. This is a fun STEM experiment that yields visible results. The Candy Chromatography Science Kit can be used for several student science projects, but using the kit to break down candy coatings and investigate the dye composition of different candies is a great project for Halloween week (or while the Trick or Treat bag still… Read more

Wire Some Trick-or-Treat or Light-up Fun with Scratch and Raspberry Pi

October 27, 2015 8:00 AM

With the new Raspberry Pi Projects Kit from Science Buddies, students can explore a series of activities that combine creativity, electronics, and computer programming using Scratch—no prior experience required! For this middle school student, a homemade pumpkin was a perfect thing to light up with LEDs! Laura, a 7th grade student in CA has an interest in electronics and creative and handmade projects. This summer, she used the Raspberry Pi Projects kit at home and explored an… Read more

Halloween STEM Roundup

October 22, 2015 2:13 PM

Every October, we hand-pick a collection of Science Buddies projects and activities that tie in with all things Halloween. This year, we have even more great suggestions for slimy, icky, ghoulish, spooky, gross, or tasty hands-on science for Trick-or-Treat week and beyond. We can help you light up your costume with science, too! Squishy Circuits Candy Corn Geodesic Dome Seeing Tonic Water Glow Alka-Seltzer Lava Lamp Squash Power Building a Halloween Brushbot Saved by the (Blood)… Read more

Water on Mars—From Sci-Fi to Space Science

October 16, 2015 8:00 AM

The action in a popular sci-fi movie explodes when an astronaut stranded on Mars attempts to create water to irrigate his plants. Real-world space science, on the other hand, has been buzzing with new findings about water on Mars. The dry planet isn't completely dry after all. Image Left: The Martian, Twentieth Century Fox; Image Right: Recurring 'Lineae' on Slopes at Hale Crater, Mars, NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona The big screen… Read more

Cucumber Chemistry: The Drying Power of Dessicants

October 15, 2015 10:00 AM

Substances that can absorb water from the environment can help keep products dry—or help dry out something that has gotten wet, like an electronic device. The small silica gel packets that you often find when you open a new product are used to help keep the product dry. The properties that make a silica gel packet work are properties you can find in other substances as well. There are even ordinary kitchen ingredients that can be used to absorb moisture and help to dry something… Read more

Taste Tests and Other Science Projects with Volunteers

October 6, 2015 10:08 AM

Certain kinds of science questions require input from volunteers. Whether the project involves a taste test or another kind of test, volunteers can be a key component for projects exploring human behavior and perception, human biology, or food sciences. Sometimes, a science project is all about you and the experiment. You have a question. You have a set of variables. You have a hypothesis. You have a procedure, and by following the steps, you will see… Read more

Flippy the Robot Dances (and Falls Apart)

October 2, 2015 12:47 PM

Engineering projects encourage students to think creatively, troubleshoot, and innovate. Sometimes there are no single "right" answers, and students will need to work, test, and brainstorm to find their own solutions to problems they encounter or to challenges presented. Building and improving a simple dancing robot whose legs fly off is a great way to "teach" lessons related to engineering and troubleshooting. Plus, Flippy is adorable, and this engineering challenge is a lot of fun! … Read more

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