DEARBORN, MI - Professors Jeffrey Bouwman and Patricia Hartshorn from the UMD College of Education, Health, and Human Services participated on the third annual Family Engineering Night at Henry Ford Elementary in Dearborn on February 16, 2016 to show young students the hands-on fun of engineering.
More than 100 professors and their students from University of Michigan-Dearborn and Dearborn's Magnet Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Middle School turned out to staff two dozen stations.
Professor Hartshorn said this was the third year she brought some of her college students to help at this event. About 36 college students helped out. “It’s so much fun for the kids,” she said. “The mission is to get families engineering."
For professor Bouwman this was his first experience in this event and took along his STEM2 class, to help on the station for building parachutes.
The challenge for the K-5 children was to construct a parachute that will float an action figure down from a second floor balcony. The children enjoyed building their own parachute and at the same time, they learned science concepts such as gravity, weight and time.
Professor Bouwman commented about this experience: “Simply put, Family Engineering Night at Henry Ford Elementary was awesome! It was a great night of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics – STEM. My EXPS 400/500 students and I had a blast working with some great students. Thank you to Professor Hartshorn and Henry Ford Elementary!”
Other stations included creating a boat to see how many pennies it would hold before sinking; stacking erasers on heavy paper supported by two cups to see how many of them the paper could hold and making mini windmills to learn about weather monitoring.
More than 100 professors and their students from University of Michigan-Dearborn and Dearborn's Magnet Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Middle School turned out to staff two dozen stations.
Professor Hartshorn said this was the third year she brought some of her college students to help at this event. About 36 college students helped out. “It’s so much fun for the kids,” she said. “The mission is to get families engineering."
For professor Bouwman this was his first experience in this event and took along his STEM2 class, to help on the station for building parachutes.
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| Professor Jeffrey Bouwman (wearing UM cap) and his students during Family Engineering Night at Henry Ford Elementary |
Professor Bouwman commented about this experience: “Simply put, Family Engineering Night at Henry Ford Elementary was awesome! It was a great night of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics – STEM. My EXPS 400/500 students and I had a blast working with some great students. Thank you to Professor Hartshorn and Henry Ford Elementary!”
Other stations included creating a boat to see how many pennies it would hold before sinking; stacking erasers on heavy paper supported by two cups to see how many of them the paper could hold and making mini windmills to learn about weather monitoring.
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