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Pitsco refines its STEM focus
2010 STEM catalog highlights best of hands-on activities. Check out this year’s Pitsco Education STEM catalog, a slim 44-page collection of popular hands-on activities that deliver big on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) learning potential. For educators who’ve always wanted...
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Alternative thinking leads to new T-Bot design
The beauty of learning hands on is that it encourages alternative thinking - thinking that leads outside of the textbook or outside of the classroom even. It opens possibilities and provides experience and a deeper understanding. Hands-on learning allows students to come up with alternative solutions...
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A Tetrix Project Idea - "The Claw"
As popularized in the Toy Story movie, and in arcades just about everywhere, "The Claw" machine is a fascinating blend of dexterity, skill and good fortune. In this machine (and it is definitely "a machine") the user plops in some coins or tokens for the opportunity to guide a claw...
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One Small Step for STEM, one Giant Leap for Students
Implementing STEM into your classroom can be done incrementally - one small step at a time. And be assured, your student's interest & comprehension of all the STEM subject matters (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) will take a giant leap forward. One fallacy within some winds...
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Influences for STEMM Careers
At Pitsco, we focus a great deal of our attention on current students and teachers and aiding in their success, but we also are very interested in tomorrow's engineers, scientists, and mathematicians and how we can help them get there. Professors at Michigan State University conducted research that...
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Rube Goldberg Contraptions? Consider Pitsco's TETRIX & Roller Coaster Track
Constructing a solid framework for holding contraptions is always a challenge. Pitsco's TETRIX building system can help meet that challenge! Within many classrooms, a Rube Goldberg-style challenge is pretty common – even Science Olympiad's Mission Possible competition incorporates these...
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