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Arnold Engineering Development Complex's STEM Center is designed to provide an exciting and interactive learning environment for teachers and students K-12. The mission is to inspire and develop student interest in STEM careers, especially in communities that surround military bases, laboratories, and other Department of Defense facilities.
AEDC strives to match hands-on activities with the school's curriculum; making learning fun for teachers and students. AEDC speakers, with a wide variety of expertise and life experiences, may be provided to assist classes with a specific program of study.
Scientist, engineers and other professionals may be available to set up demonstrations at regional schools and judge projects at local science fairs.
The STEM center is equipped with hands-on demonstrations ranging from flight dynamics and robotics, to constellations and moon colonies.
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The center's planetarium is a 16' diameter by 10' high portable dome equipped to project educational movies about astronomy and the night sky. The dome may accommodate up to 35 students. |
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Static and portable wind tunnels are available to help students understand the dynamics of flight. The wind tunnels are equipped with fog solutions for viewing airflows, model airplane, model car, rotating cylinder and airfoil section. Speeds up to 40 mph may be achieved in the static wind tunnel. Students are able to control an objects angle of attack, rotation speed or airflow speed. |
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The center's rocket launchers give students experience with using the engineering process, building rockets, testing rockets and learning physics principles. |
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In 2012 the Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) completed its tenth year of inspiring and attracting the next generation of engineers and technicians to join the aerospace industry. The Aerospace Industries Association's signature program and the only aerospace-specific national STEM competition, TARC has reached over 55,000 students in the past decade and involved over 3,000 students in 48 states during the 2012 season alone.
An extra-curricular hands-on project-based learning program, the TARC competition is modeled around the aerospace industry's design, fabrication and testing processes. All students participate in a team of 3-10 students to design, build, and fly a rocket. Like aerospace companies work within specific design parameters, every year the challenge requires teams to achieve the same basic mission-oriented goals of hitting a precise altitude, landing within a specific flight time window, and returning a raw egg ("the astronaut") without cracking. Each year a unique task is also included; this year we are challenging students to fly their egg horizontally.
AEDC STEM will be sponsoring 4 teams this year.
http://www.rocketcontest.org/ |
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ARIES is a physical science curriculum for students in grades 5-8 that employs 18 inquiry-centered, hands-on lessons called "explorations" that teach motion and forces. The curriculum draws upon students' curiosity to explore phenomena, allowing for a discovery-based learning process. Group-centered lab work is designed to help students build an understanding of inertia, friction, gravity, speed, and acceleration. Students examine their prior ideas about the phenomena, formulate questions, build and use an apparatus to observe natural phenomena, make predictions, and gather data through structured experiments. Exploring Motion and Forces is part of the ARIES sequence of eight physical science units. The ARIES sequences can be used together for an overall curriculum or independently. |
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The following items are available for check out:
Discovery Dome (Planetarium and STEM films)
Rocket Launchers
Wind Tunnels
Aries, Exploring Motion and Forces Lesson Kits
LEGO® Education WeDo Robotics Construction Set |
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Focused on building an interest in science and engineering in children ages 6-9, Junior FIRST® LEGO® League (Jr.FLL®) is a hands-on program designed to capture young children's inherent curiosity and direct it toward discovering the possibilities of improving the world around them. Just like FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL®), this program features a real-world challenge, to be solved by research, critical thinking and imagination. Guided by adult coaches and the Jr.FLL Core Values, students work with LEGO elements and moving parts to build ideas and concepts and present them for review.
AEDC STEM sponsors 3 Jr. Lego League Teams
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/jr.fll |
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FTC is designed for those in Grades 7-12 who want to compete head to head, using a sports model. Teams of up to 10 students are responsible for designing, building, and programming their robots to compete in an alliance format against other teams. The robot kit is reusable from year-to-year and is programmed using a variety of languages. Teams, including coaches, mentors and volunteers, are required to develop strategy and build robots based on sound engineering principles. Awards are given for the competition as for well as for community outreach, design, and other real-world accomplishments.
AEDC STEM helps sponsor 2 FIRST Tech Challenge Teams
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/ftc |
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MATHCOUNTS is a national enrichment, club and competition program that promotes middle school mathematics achievement through grassroots involvement in every U.S. state and territory. The program heightens student interest in mathematics by making math achievement challenging and exciting. At the beginning of each school year, the MATHCOUNTS Foundation provides a complimentary copy of the MATHCOUNTS School Handbook to every middle school across the country. Teachers and volunteers use the handbook and activities to coach student Mathletes, as part of in-class instruction or as an extracurricular activity. www.mathcounts.org |
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The FIRST LEGO League is a partnership between FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) and The LEGO Group who created a powerful program that helps young people discover the fun in science and technology while building self-confidence, knowledge, and valuable employment and life skills. The league is a robotics program developed for youth ages 9 to 16. The work is programming an autonomous robot (using the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® robot set) to score points on a thematic playing surface, creating an innovative solution to a problem as part of their project.
AEDC STEM sponsors 7 FIRST Lego League Teams
www.firstlegoleague.org |
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CyberPatriot is the premiere national high school cyber defense competition created to inspire high school students toward careers in cybersecurity or other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines critical to our nation's future. CyberPatriot V is open to all high schools, Civil Air Patrol Units, JROTC Units, US Naval Sea Cadet Corps Units and accredited home school programs around the country.
During competitions students are provided one to three virtual machines. The machines contain several vulnerabilities that students must identify and defend against. CyberPatriot was established by the Air Force Association. The Northrop Grumman Foundation is the Presenting Sponsor for CyberPatriot V. CyberPatriot's founding partners are SAIC and CIAS at the University of Texas-San Antonio.
AEDC STEM sponsors the Franklin County High JRAFROTC Team
www.uscyberpatriot.org |
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The educational tour programs at Arnold Engineering Development Complex are designed to SPARK the interest of students, and keep student's MINDS IN MOTION.
The programs' mission is to increase the level of outreach to educators and students and help motivate today's students to become tomorrow's engineers and scientists.
Students will learn about the work AEDC does and its importance to America's air and space superiority. Students also have the opportunity to interact with members of the Air Force and other complex employees and ask specific questions about flight, educational requirements and military life. The tours also provide the opportunity to participate in hands-on demonstrations and tour different testing facilities on base.
For more information or to schedule a tour date, please contact the ATA Public Affairs office at (931) 454-5655.
Educational Tour Program
arnoldafbtours@arnold.af.mil |
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The LEGO® Education WeDo Robotics Construction Set is an easy-to-use set that introduces young students to robotics when combined with the LEGO Education WeDo Robotics Software. Students will be able to build LEGO models featuring working motors and sensors; program their models; and explore a series of cross-curricular, theme-based activities while developing their skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, as well as language and literacy. The construction set comes with printed building instructions for 12 models and contains more than 150 elements including a motor, tilt sensor, motion sensor, and LEGO USB Hub. |
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 Utilizing the award winning Fly to Learn software, we offer a 10 lesson curriculum for graded 6-9 that teaches STEM topics using an aviation theme. Students fly virtual aircraft to study science concepts such as energy/forces and modify existing aircraft designs to improve aircraft performance and learn the engineering process. Students use math and graphs to predict performance and make informed design decision. Upon course completion, students are eligible for an actual flight in a glider with an instructor pilot.
AEDC STEM sponsors 1 school this year.
http://www.flytolearn.com/
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Students are required to design a vehicle that addresses a series of engineering problems that are similar to problems faced by the original Moonbuggy team. Each Moonbuggy will be human powered and carry two students, one female and one male, over a half-mile simulated lunar terrain course including "craters", rocks, "lava" ridges, inclines and "lunar" soil. Moonbuggy entries are expected to be of "proof-of-concept" and engineering test model nature, rather than final production models. Each student team of six members is responsible for building their own buggy, and the course drivers, who are chosen from each team, must also be builders of the vehicle.
AEDC STEM sponsors one Moonbuggy Team this year.
http://moonbuggy.msfc.nasa.gov/ |
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The FIRST Robotics Competition is designed for grades 9-12.
The FIRST® Robotics Competition (TRC®) stages short games played by robots. The robots are designed and built in six weeks (from a common set of parts) by a team of high-school-aged young people and a handful of engineers-Mentors. The students program and remotely control the robots in competition rounds on the field.
Teams are formed in the fall. The annual FIRST Robotics Competition Competition Kickoff in early January starts the six-week "build" season. Competitions take place in March and April. The FIRST Robotics Competition Regional events are typically held in university arenas. They involve 40 to 70 teams cheered by thousands of fans over three days (two days for District events). A championship event caps the season. Referees oversee the competition. Judges evaluate teams and present awards for design, technology, sportsmanship, and commitment to FIRST. The Chairman's Award is the highest honor at FIRST and recognizes a team that exemplifies the values of FIRST.
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc
AEDC STEM helps sponsors two FIRST Robotics Competition Teams
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For more information or to schedule a STEM visit please contact the AEDC STEM Center.
AEDC STEM Center
100 Kindel Drive, Suite B213
Arnold AFB, TN 37389-2213
(931) 454-7086
STEM@arnold.af.mil
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AEDC has test facilities ranging from large wind tunnels and altitude jet and rocket test cells to space chambers, ballistic ranges, arc heaters (to simulate the high temperature generated reentering the Earth's atmosphere) to small research test cells. The center's unique test facilities simulate flight from sea level to space and from subsonic to hypersonic speeds approaching Mach 20.
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