I was mainly working with 5th graders, and we did many different projects. We worked on building projects to see how they worked, what we could do to improve them, and stabilize them.

During the visit with Bryan, we learned about magnetism and its omnipresence. We discussed the Earth and its magnetic poles and how they affect the Earth. We discussed how magnets resist each other when they are like.

I hope that I taught kids that STEM, mainly science, isn’t boring, and when they dig down, there are very interesting things about it. It isn’t all just in a book; it is all around us. I hope that I sparked imagination and creativity.

This experience helped me to see a different side of STEM. I am used to teaching from a book, but students find it tedious. I need to help them get “their hands dirty” with it. Experimenting with hands-on experience will spark their curiosity of, “What if?”.

Grade Level and Subject Taught: 5th grade mainly, I did have other kids at various times. Science