Middle School Activities

INVENTOR'S CAMPS	CONSTRUCT - I CAN	GIRLS FUN PROGRAM	ROBOTICS	COMPUTERS	FORENSIC SCIENCE	EDIBLE CAR CONTEST	HANDBOOK OF STEM ACTIVITIES FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL
			DIODES	DNA EXTRACTION

Activities for middle school students (sixth, seventh and eighth grade) include a variety of high interest, hands-on activities: inventor's camps in which students design and create a product; an engineering design project entitled Construct - I Can in which students design and build structures from food cans and boxes; a Girls Just Want to Have Fun Program, which meets weekly for exciting exercises in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM); a computer exercise in which students take computers apart and reassemble them; robotics activities in which students build and program robots; an electricity exercise in which students make and test diode; a DNA extraction and reebop construction activity; and edible car contests in which students design, build and race vehicles made entirely of food items.

Middle school students work on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) exercises at IVCC.
At left, students create a circuit simulation in an electronics lab. At right, a student creates a kaleidoscope application program in a computer lab.


Middle school students work on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) exercises at IVCC. At left, students create a circuit simulation in an electronics lab. At right, a student creates a kaleidoscope application program in a computer lab.


An IVCC instructor helps a middle school student in a computer lab.	Engineering is about teamwork! Groups of eighth graders practice walking as a team.	An eighth grade student logs a physics exercise in an IVCC lab.