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Advanced Mousetrap Car
Engineering Design
Module Type: Hands-On
Focus: STEM (covers elements across science, technology, engineering, math)
Summary: Participants will construct a basic mousetrap car and learn how to operate a mousetrap car. A descriptive, demonstrated build will highlight best practices in engineering and construction strategies to ensure a successful building session. Goals include:
1) Participants will learn how to interpret a technical drawing and make basic measurements.
2) Particpants will follow written and verbal directions and use basic tools to construct a mousetrap car. 3) Participants will leave with a working mousetrap car.
Room: 203
Tags: I'm a tag, I am also a tag, I too, am a tag
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Biography: Dawn DeWitt has been a Science Educator in Palm Beach County Florida for nearly 30 years. As a successful SECME coordinator for many years, her students attended the SECME National Mousetrap Car Competition for eight years running (2009-2016). Dawn has been a SECME Teacher of the year finalist and a SECME Co-Teacher of the year in 2013. In 2015, Dawn received the Palm Beach County STEM Teacher of the Year award. Recently, Ms. DeWitt was featured as a 'Game Changer' in The Boca Raton Observer Magazine article on women in STEM. Ms. DeWitt has developed and unit of study based around the mousetrap car that connects design and engineering principles with mathematical concepts to predict performance. Dawn has presented these STEM rich concepts to educators and worked with many different coordinators and students to build STEM capacity.
Dawn DeWitt
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