An exciting hands-on STEM experience right in your classroom!
In addition to Techsplorers lineup of incredible summer camps and workshops, we are proud to offer exciting, interactive, science and engineering experiences right in your classroom! Techsplorers highly customizable in-school field trips provide students of all ages with fun, engaging activities designed to stimulate their interest in science, technology, and engineering.
For more information, please contact bmcghee@techsplorers.com or call 919-890-3136. We look forward to helping you inspire the scientists and engineers of tomorrow!
Single session: $250
Additional consecutive sessions: $200
Session length: 45-60 min
Capacity: 25 students
Seeking an in-school field trip experience that does not fit our standard model? Contact us to create a custom program that perfectly fits your needs!
Below are some of our favorite activities, which have been specifically designed to pack as much fun and learning as possible into a typical class period. Please contact us for more details about each of these activities. If you don't see anything below that would work for you or if you require a longer program, we are also happy to work with you to create a new program tailored to your exact specifications!
Mechanical Engineering:
Aerospace Engineering:
Civil Engineering:
Electricity:
Chemistry:
Students work as a team to design and build a vehicle out of basic craft materials that can protect a passenger (raw egg) in a head-on collision.
NC Essential Standards: 3.P.1.1, 5.P.1.1, 7.P.2.1, 7.P.2.2
NGSS Standards: ETS1.A, ETS1.B, ETS1.C, 4-PS3-1, 4-PS3-3, MS-PS2-1
Possible Topics:
Students are introduced to the basic concepts of electricity and build their own LED lightsaber out of just a few simple materials.
NC Essential Standards: 4.P.3.1, 4.P.2.1, 6.P.3.3, 7.P.2.3
NGSS Standards: 2-PS1-1, 4-PS3-2
Possible Topics:
Students learn how convection and hot air balloons work and then test their own air hot air balloon designs with the goal of achieving the greatest height.
NC Essential Standards: 3.P.2.1, 3.P.2.2, 3.P.2.3, 5.P.3.1, 5.P.3.2, 6.P.2.2
NGSS Standards: ETS1.A, ETS1.B, ETS1.C, 4-PS3-4
Possible Topics: