Lather up using your own custom soap! Mix up the ingredients and add colors and scents to create the perfect soap for you. Washing your hands has never been so fun! Add materials to your Amazon shopping cart. Click here for a DeSTEMber activity! Weekly Materials List
Who said you can’t roll around on square wheels? Explore the geometry behind different shapes and how they work together to create a square-wheeled car! Add materials to your Amazon shopping cart. Click here for a DeSTEMber activity! Weekly Materials List
Get hooked on this challenge that will test both your coordination and understanding of science! Help your diver search for sunken treasure as you learn how density and buoyancy work together. Add materials to your Amazon shopping cart. Click here for a DeSTEMber activity! Weekly Materials List
Can you find north? Discover how to recreate the first manmade compass used over 1,000 years ago using the Earth’s naturally occurring magnetic fields. With just a few materials you will be able to find north in no time! Add materials to your Amazon shopping cart. Click here for a DeSTEMber activity! Weekly Materials List
Engineer a robot that will scribble and draw a design on its own! Get creative with circuitry and explore electrical energy to power a motor that will vibrate your scribble bot and make unique and colorful artwork. Add materials to your Amazon shopping cart. Click here for a DeSTEMber activity! Weekly Materials List
What color is your shadow? Did you know not all shadows are black?! Explore the additive properties of light and observe how colorful shadows can be. Add materials to your Amazon shopping cart. Click here for a DeSTEMber activity! Weekly Materials List
Turn up the music to feel the vibrations! Learn about displacement, equilibrium, and acoustical engineering while building a figure that dances on top of a cup. Watch your wire person move as you discover the science behind sound waves. Add materials to your Amazon shopping cart. Click here for a DeSTEMber activity! Weekly Materials List
How far do you think you can launch a marshmallow across the room? Use your knowledge of potential and kinetic energy to make your own marshmallow slingshot! Add materials to your Amazon shopping cart. Click here for a DeSTEMber activity! Weekly Materials List
Lights, camera, action! Learn about stop motion animation and make your own holiday-themed stop motion video. Create a story, background, characters, and props for your movie. Then, photograph these objects using the Stop Motion Studio app to bring them to life! Add materials to your Amazon shopping cart. Click here for a DeSTEMber activity! Weekly …
Computer scientists can do some pretty amazing things! It’s Computer Science Education Week and Tech Tuesday is all about learning the basics of programming using Blockly. Blockly is a series of games and challenges made by Google that will prepare you to use conventional text-based programming languages. Learning to use specific instructions is a really …
Is it possible to change the color of a liquid without adding food coloring? From reddish to greenish, what does the color change mean about your liquid? Explore the acidity and basicity of common household items in this chemistry of pH experiment. Add materials to your Amazon shopping cart. Click here for a DeSTEMber activity! …
Create a circuit to brighten up your holiday décor! Channel your inner electrical engineer to design your own light up reindeer. With a nose so bright, let your reindeer’s glow lead the way through the dark night. Add materials to your Amazon shopping cart. Click here for a DeSTEMber activity! Weekly Materials List
“Today the forecast will be sunny with a slight chance of rain this afternoon.” Explore the science behind the green screens news forecasters use. Select a backdrop and film your own weather segment using chromakey technology. Add materials to your Amazon shopping cart. Click here for a DeSTEMber activity! Weekly Materials List
This summer, Girlstart used Makeblock drones to help our campers learn to code! Girls used drag and drop programming to navigate their hovercraft “animal transport drones” to relocate wild animals. In our Ready, Set, Rescue camp girls programmed “disaster drones” to fly to specific targets as part of a rescue mission. Makeblock drones are easy …
ROY G. BIV! Which mnemonic device do you use to remember the colors of a rainbow? Design a spectroscope to explore the unique way light diffracts to see the rainbow colors! Add materials to your Amazon shopping cart. Click here for a DeSTEMber activity! Weekly Materials List
Houston Zoo: Black Bears Black bears may not be the first animal that comes to mind when you think of Texas wildlife. Many years ago, four of the 16 subspecies of black bear once roamed the state of Texas. Unfortunately, as the lone star state grew in popularity with settlers throughout the 19th century, the …
Red, yellow, green, blue – what order of colors will you make your rainbow? Discover how different liquid densities can help you create your own sugar water rainbow. How many teaspoons of sugar will be the densest? Add materials to your Amazon shopping cart. Click here for a DeSTEMber activity! Weekly Materials List
Did you know you are able to perceive depth because your left and right eye see things differently? What type of adjustments would you have to make if you only had vision in one eye? Explore how your brain creates a three-dimensional image of the world in this eye-opening activity. Add materials to your Amazon …
Add some sparkle to your outfit! Explore how to make a closed circuit light up a stylish bracelet. Design a charm, add a small LED light circuit, and watch your fashion shine. Add materials to your Amazon shopping cart. Click here for a DeSTEMber activity! Weekly Materials List
Three… Two… One… BLAST OFF! Explore the aerodynamics behind rockets and see how far you can get yours to soar. Grab a bendy straw, paper, and tape and you are ready for take off. Add materials to your Amazon shopping cart. Click here for a DeSTEMber activity! Weekly Materials List
Engineer your own Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) prototype to explore the moon’s surface! Design an orbiter that is compact to travel in space, can capture images of the moon, and can record temperature, radiation, and more! Add materials to your Amazon shopping cart. Click here for a DeSTEMber activity! Weekly Materials List
Send a tea bag flying in this fiery activity! Heat makes the air inside a tea bag less dense than the air outside of it. A convection current is created causing the ash to soar upwards like a rocket. Add materials to your Amazon shopping cart. Click here for a DeSTEMber activity! Weekly Materials List
Did you know you can create a light without batteries or power? A shake light relies on mechanical power to turn on the light bulb. Use your muscles to make your shake light glow! Add materials to your Amazon shopping cart. Click here for a DeSTEMber activity! Weekly Materials List
Use a straw, scissors, and paper to engineer a small poinsettia-shaped propeller. Then, design a device that will allow you to power your poinsettia spinner using only air from your lungs! Learn about the importance of blade angles and thrust as you explore the work of propulsion engineers. Add materials to your Amazon shopping cart. …
Prepare for lift off! Engineer a hang glider and watch it soar in the air as you complete your own set of aerodynamic challenges! Add materials to your Amazon shopping cart. Click here for a DeSTEMber activity! Weekly Materials List
Create your own musical instrument using tongue depressors, rubber bands, and a straw to explore how sound is created by vibrations. Sound moves in waves, and different sized waves produce different pitches of sound. Experiment with your Sound Sandwich to find the perfect tune to play for your friends! Add materials to your Amazon shopping …
Enhance real-world experiences through interactive augmented reality. Explore the structure and functions of the Mars Curiosity Rover and other spacecrafts through a smartphone app. Click here for a DeSTEMber activity! Weekly Materials List
SciGirls - Code Quest Explore the ocean while learning to code! Take Subbie the submarine on an underwater coding adventure to help him find various items on the ocean floor. Click here to play Code Quest with SciGirls! Up, Up the Water Goes How could you transport water uphill without electricity? The Archimedes screw is a simple device that …
When you think about objects that roll, you usually think of a circle. Do you think you can use other shapes to do the same thing? Add materials to your Amazon shopping cart. Click here for a DeSTEMber activity! Weekly Materials List
Fold in half, then fold in the corners, only a few more folds and you will create an origami firefly. Explore electrical energy, circuits, and switches to make your unique origami ‘lightning bug’ shine! Add materials to your Amazon shopping cart. Click here for a DeSTEMber activity! Weekly Materials List
Wrap up the last day of DeSTEMber by setting goals for the new year! Girlstart hopes you are Brave, Creative, and Curious when dreaming about the goals you want to achieve. Stay motivated in 2020 by ‘Magnifying Your Dreams’ today. Add materials to your Amazon shopping cart. Click here for a DeSTEMber activity! Weekly Materials …
