One of this year's big events at the boy's school was the S.T.E.A.M. Family Family Fun Night. Standing for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (no 's' on maths, I'm learning to live with it), each facet was represented in different zones of the school with lots of hands-on activities for the kids to do. The science stations were run by the Perot Museum of Nature & Science (
http://www.perotmuseum.org, another box to tick on the to-do list). They had rocks and skulls to examine, blew dry ice into bubbles, looked at constellations and measured heart rates. For technology there was a "Bring-you-own-device" interactive quiz. Evan's favourite was the engineering section where he built electrical circuits. There were also maths challenges to complete, and lots of glue and glitter in the art room. We all really enjoyed it, although the icing on the cake for the kids was an ice cream van, sponsored by a local bank, dishing out free ice creams for all!
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| Investigating their heart rate before and after exercise. |
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| Messing with matter. |
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| Making circuits. |
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| There's possibly an engineer in the family! |
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