McDougle Middle School knows how to have a great time! Recently, 119 of teacher Mary Patricia Peres-da-Silva's Compacted Math students held a Math Fair complete with food trucks and cool STEM activities.There were 115 different projects set up all over the school. Here is a sampling of the amazing work being demonstrated:
- Carlos Merida created a robotic arm from scratch that moved and lifted objects.
- Andrew Herring and his sister, Ava, programmed spheros to go over truss bridges that they built.
- Sydney Lin programmed a machine to play tunes from Mobius strips.
- Jane Rydin and Madden Rutherford coded their Makey Makey kits and used bananas to turn it into a piano board.
- Mia Oliaro created photon flowers that lit up when the circuit was complete with lemon juice.
- Cogan McMichael flew his drone and showed the audience how they could find missing people using a coordinate mat and the drone camera.
- Ana Payst made a Rube Goldberg machine that used a marble to trigger other components that ultimately led to a plant getting watered.
- Alair Rojas constructed a truss bridge with straws and popsicles, and engineered it to hold more than 70 pounds of weight.
- Rishi Patel created his maze with tunnels and learned how to program his sphero to go through it.
Many thanks to Mrs. Peres-da-Silva and the entire Mustang team who made this event possible.
