Harrison Park Elementary School conducts monthly STEAM projects called “Junk Box Wars.”
STEAM activities incorporate science, technology, engineering, art, and math into one lesson. The Junk Box Wars projects encourage students to use their scientific knowledge to create and design a device. Students in kindergarten through fifth-grade work with a partner and are given a design challenge and a bag of “junk” to create a device that solves a specified task.
February’s challenge, which occurred on Valentine’s Day, was called “Cupid’s Crazy Contraption.” The students had to make Cupid’s bow and arrow, and then launch it at a tower of cups to see who could knock the most down.
Winners were named from each grade level, and the students enjoyed the educational project.
3rd-graders Tula DeFlavio and Caelyn Duddy work together to create a bow
Dean Mihalik and Nina Padezan, 3rd-grade
2nd-graders Enzo Mastroianni and Paisley Sullivan plan and build their device
3rd-graders Kayli Payne and Maleah Felton
Guy Nutt and Greyson Egnatz, 3rd-grade
3rd-graders Beckett Burmeister, Liam Walker and Elijah Jarboe enjoyed working together
2nd-grader Blake Dreistadt launches his arrow while his partner, Trevor Barnett, watches
