Virtual STEAM Resources

Meet key team members of our recreation team, learn more about their career journeys, and discover how STEAM principles are used in their everyday tasks.

Check out the scientific principles involved in how a diver can sink or float! George demonstrates how to create your own mini diver. Can you tell us why the diver sinks or floats? Let’s go diving!

This is a video walkthrough of the day to day expectations and job descriptions of just a few of the STEM opportunities within the U.S. Navy.

Vrooom! Vrrooom! Imagine your future as an AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEER during Challenge Island’s 12/10 Hanging with the STEAM Stars! Do you ever wonder what it would be like to build cool cars for a living? Or how computers can be used to keep cars safe? You won’t want to miss meeting Lucas Peterson, an automotive engineer for General Motors in Detroit! Learn how Luke turned his Dream STEAM career into reality during this amazing Hanging with the STEAM Stars Episode!

Do you dream of a career in website or video game design? Do you think coding is colossally cool? Meet Kelcy Newton, an inspiring Microsoft SOFTWARE ENGINEER who is brimming with Girl Power! Learn what she gets to do every day and how she turned her STEAM dream Job into reality.

If you dream of a career as Veterinarian, this is a not to be missed session. Tune in to listen to our talk with Cheryl Coplon as she shares how she turned her passion to a dream career.

All Living Things Have Genes – Genes are instructions for how living things make themselves using long molecules call nucleic acids. We look at nucleic acid code of bacteria or viruses, for example COVID, then use this information to make a test to detect the disease.

Overview of Daylight Solutions STEM Outreach employee volunteer program.

Learn a little bit about Dry Ices’ unique properties and how it can be turned into bubbles. Learn why the bubbles are different than a normal bubble. It is -109F, so cold! You can make awesome bubbles and do this one at home but will need an adult with leather gloves for the dry ice.

Create your own binary code bracelet with EIS Computer Science Instructor, Ms. Clare!

In this activity, students will translate their name into binary code, and create a bracelet to combine art with computer science.

You can download our Computer Science: Binary Code Lesson at https://eisca.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/EIS_Coding_Activity_Binary-Code_Bracelet_27APR2020.pdf

Explore Aerodynamics with EIS Engineering Instructor, Mr. Justin!
In this activity, students will develop various models of airplane designs and compare their speed and aerodynamic properties.

You can download our Engineering: Paper Airplane Lesson at https://eisca.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/EIS_Engineering_Paper_Airplanes_15APR2020.pdf.

Instructions for Dart plane: https://www.foldnfly.com/1.html#Basic-Dart
Instructions for Glider plane: https://www.foldnfly.com/6.html#Hunting-Flight

Create your own stethoscope with EIS Engineering Instructor, Ms. Maria!
In this activity, students will build their own stethoscopes and explore other bioengineering inventions.

You can download our Engineering: Stethoscope Lesson at https://eisca.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/EIS_Bioengineering_Build_A_Stethoscope_18MAY2020.pdf