Engineers Week with Campus Kids

To celebrate National Engineers Week, Gonzaga engineering and computer science students introduced elementary school students connected to the Campus Kids program about engineering basics. Dr. Gary Weber of the Engineering Management program arranged the event where kids could take turns at five different stations: aerodynamics, egg drop, light show, maze and robotics, and an introduction to 3D modeling.

Egg Drop project lets students design and build devices to protect eggs when they're dropped from an adult's height.

By wrapping pipe cleaners around different horizontal parts of a toy car, then tracing and cutting each pipe cleaner shape onto foam board, student can make a crude 3-D rendering of the toy.

Kids learned they could code color patterns and times into a controller to make a small light show.