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Eek! I can't believe I'm posting on this board already. Where did the time go? :001_smile:

 

My ds recently joined a teen engineering group. The kids meet every other week to work on projects. Two boys are working on an autonomous airplane, another is trying to redo a remote control race car so it will run automatically around a dirt track he built in their backyard. A couple of others are using Lego Mindstorm to try to solve a Rubik’s cube.

 

I'd like to help my ds with some suggestions for a project. The leaders (engineers/homeschool parents) are open to just about anything. The kids can have full use of their workshop. They are using Arduino to get started.

 

Any suggestions?

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Encourage your engineers to start working like engineers; encourage them to document their work.

 

https://engineering.purdue.edu/ece477/Homework/CommonRefs/Tutorials/Other/Project%20Notebook%20Guidelines.pdf

 

http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/ess/future-students/k-12/first-tech-challenge/coaches/engineering-notebook

 

http://www.williamson-labs.com/notebook.htm

 

http://www.bookfactory.com/engineering-notebooks/engineering-notebooks.html

 

http://www.snco.com/student.htm

 

Tons of info out there. Do an advanced search on "Engineering Notebook" and ".edu"; plenty to get you started. :001_smile:

 

Peace,

Janice

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Make magazine always has great ideas, complete with instructions.

 

There are project books for Mindstorms that are really good, just search for "mindstorm" on Amazon.

 

Everest Trek (Building Math: Integrating Algebra & Engineering) - there are others in this series

 

Arduino Cookbook

 

FIRST Robotics

 

 

Here are some helpful web sites w/info & project ideas:

Design Squad Nation

 

eGFI - American Society for Engineering Teacher Site - projects, lesson plans, etc.

 

Engineering is Elementary (K-12 resources)

 

Science Buddies (good resource for project ideas)

 

Try Engineering (from IEEE)

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