posted Jul 19, 2010 5:38 PM by Science Bus 5C
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updated Jul 20, 2010 8:24 AM by Neal Pisenti
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Pepsi is currently sponsoring a grant competition, giving away 2x $250K, and 10x $5K, $25K, and $50K every month. Basically, groups or individuals propose a project, and then people vote online for which ones they want to fund. Science Bus is an excellent candidate for one of these, and we'd love your input on what you think we should use the money for!
Go ahead and submit your ideas below... they could be for outreach days or events (along the lines of Science Day/Olympics/World Cup), specific lessons that would be expensive to do (one idea we had was to buy a set of microscopes), or any other project related to elementary school science education. Then we'll post everyone's ideas for a club-wide vote, and write up a proposal for the winner!
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Proposed Ideas:
Proposal #1 (Dmitri Skjorshammer) "Outreach event to other Southern California colleges. Money will cover costs of travel, seminars and start-up grants (1 year) for the other schools. - elementary schools near Cal Poly Pomona, Occidental, Orange, Community colleges might benefit alot - spread the mission of Science Bus - The college students at college X might not be interested. - Big time commitment."
Cost: $25,000
Proposal #2 (Acacia Hori) "Let's have a problem solving lesson: build a car.
Lesson outline: 1. As a class, make a list of things to consider when building a car (speed, safety, mileage, cost, etc.)
2. Lesson in aerodynamics, inertia, the wheel, etc.
3. Kids build soap box cars and race them. -each team has a budget with which they can buy supplies from us. -they build a car (with our help) -we race the cars
Then, let's take everyone to the Pomona Speedway for the NHRA finals in November!"
Cost: $20,000
Proposal #3 (Steven Hang) We could get a bunch of LEGO Mindstorms robotics kits to teach the kids about how robots work. It could be a multiple week project, where each group assigned with a kit builds a robot with a specific function from start to finish. There would be a planning phase, a construction phase, a programming phase, and demonstration.
Cost: $279 x (the number of kits)
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