Unit 6.3: Evaluating Previous NASA Missions
Angela Daneshmand, Santiago Canyon College
What does it take to execute a successful NASA mission? In this unit, students research past NASA missions and evaluate the engineering design by comparing the mission goals to the design of the rover completing ...

Lab for traversing 2D Matricies using nested loops
Navid Shaghaghi, Santa Clara University
The activity starts with the creation of a large 2d matrix with random numbers (or letters) that represent the proteins needed to build hydro-codons and then asks the students to traverse the matrix in all 8 ...

Simulating Mineral Industry Drilling and Processing Lab
Joel Aquino, University of North Georgia / Hall County Schools
Students simulate two processes applied by the mineral industry - drilling and mineral processing. In the drilling activity, students create a 3D model of a hidden object inside a shoebox by using bamboo skewers as their drilling machines. The second activity on mineral processing challenges the students to design and implement a flowchart on how to separate the individual components of a water-oil laden mineral mixture.