What's In The Box?  An Engineering Design Challenge Is In Every Groovy Box! Make It Fun - When Kids

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What's Our Theme For October? 🌱 Water Works 🌱A Lesson in Hydroponics 🌱 FREE SHIPPING in the US, always. International shipping is available, too. Subscribe today! Groovy Subscriptions: https://www.groovylabinabox.com/groovy-subscriptions/ 🌱 🌱 🌱 Engineering Design Challenge 🌱 The Mars Colony astronauts need to grow their own food. Using only the materials from your Groovy Lab in a Box, can you design and build a hydroponic garden prototype that can be used by future astronauts at the Mars Colony? Explore different types of hydroponic systems, seed germination and photosynthesis! Build a water reservoir, test tube bean stalk, drip irrigation system, a groovy space barn and much, much, more! Practice essential 21st century science skills: pipetting, measuring volume and length, making observations and collecting data. 🌱 🌞 Emphasis on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) 🌱 🌞 Extended learning through our exclusive online portal, Beyond in a Box 🌱 🌞 For children ages 8 and up 🌱 #STEM #STEAM #hydroponics #nasa #mars #astronauts https://www.instagram.com/p/B3nu9VBhKif/?igshid=1vo080g25gc1b

Happy Birthday to you Dr. Seuss! Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer and illustrator best known for authoring popular children's books under the pen name Dr. Seuss. Theodor Seuss Geisel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, to Theodor Robert and Henrietta (née Seuss) Geisel. All of his grandparents were German immigrants. His father managed the family brewery and was later appointed to supervise Springfield's public park system by Mayor John A. Denison after the brewery closed because of Prohibition. Mulberry Street in Springfield was made famous in Dr. Seuss' first children's book "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street!" and is less than a mile southwest of his boyhood home on Fairfield Street. Geisel was raised a Lutheran. He enrolled at Springfield Central High School in 1917 and graduated in 1921. He took an art class as a freshman and later became manager of the school soccer team. #DrSeuss

“I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it.” – John Glenn Planning your summer vacation? Be sure to check out these groovy aviation museums with your #STEMists! http://www.groovylabinabox.com/6-kid-friendly-u-s-aviation-museums/ #aviation #museums #flying #STEM

Bon voyage, Voyager 1 A spacecraft launched more than three decades ago has entered the space between stars. http://bit.ly/15JWH0B

50% OFF "Fly With Me" Single Box! CODE: FLY50 Give your STEM Friends a groovy heads up! Click here: http://www.groovylabinabox.com/shop/fly-with-me/ use CODE: FLY50 at checkout then get ready to take flight... Hands-on Next Generation Science Standards, project-based learning. #STEMists do the "E" in #STEM! Engineering Design Challenge: You are a starry-eyed aerospace engineer and a groovy world traveler.  You dream of taking off in the blue, gliding where the air is stratified and floating down to Peru.  Using only the materials from your Groovy Lab in a Box, can you design, build, and launch an airplane generating thrust with a propeller which travels fifteen feet? STEMists, get ready to pack up and fly away! Investigate: Parachutes; Weight, Lift, Drag and Thrust; Bernoulli’s Principle; Action–Reaction; Force of Air Game; Wings are Lifters; Catapult Airplanes; Airplane Kites; “Deux” Loop Glider ; Helicopter with Propeller, build various types of aerospace vehicles and much, much, more. Emphasis on STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) Extended learning through our exclusive online portal For children ages 8 and up #NationOfMakers #STEMforKids #STEMEducation #STEMEd #ProjectBasedLearning

Celebrate #EngineersWeek2016: #TBT Hedy Lamarr is famous as a glamorous movie star from the black-and-white era of film. But what most people don't know about her is that, in 1942, she co-invented a device that helped make possible the development of GPS, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi technology! Born in Austria in 1914, the mathematically talented Lamarr moved to the US in 1937 to start a #Hollywood career. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, she was considered one of cinema's leading ladies and made numerous films; however, her passion for engineering is far less known today. Her interest in inventing was such that she set up an #engineering room in her house complete with a drafting table and wall of engineering reference books. With the outbreak of World War II, Lamarr wanted to apply her skills to helping the war effort and, motivated by reports of German U-boats sinking ships in the Atlantic, she began investigating ways to improve torpedo technology. After Lamar met composer George Antheil, who had been experimenting with automated control of #musical instruments, together they hit on the idea of "frequency hopping." At the time, radio-controlled torpedoes could easily be detected and jammed by broadcasting interference at the frequency of the control signal, thereby causing the #torpedo to go off course. Lamarr and Antheil were granted a patent for their invention on August 11, 1942, but the US #Navy wasn't interested in applying their groundbreaking technology until twenty years later when it was used on #military ships during a blockade of Cuba in 1962. Lamarr and Antheil's frequency-hopping concept serves as a basis for the spread-spectrum communication #technology used in #GPS, #WiFi and #Bluetooth devices. Unfortunately, Lamarr's part in its development has been largely overlooked and her efforts weren't recognized until 1997, when the Electronic Frontier Foundation gave her an award for her technological contributions. Hedy Lamarr passed away in 2000 at the age of 85 and, in 2014, she was at long last inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for her invention of a "Secret Communication System" many years ago. Text credit: A Mighty Girl #HedyLamarr

Hate it when I accidently put protons on my salad. 😊 #proton #electron #neutron #crouton https://www.instagram.com/p/B09y40jhEB5/?igshid=1jkhzr7zao3oz