STEAM Day 3 - School of Noise

At the start of the day, we learnt what it actually means to be a robot and their three abilities that define them as such. We looked at the increasing role and function that they play in our everyday life - from entertainment and rescue, to exploration and delivery. With all this in mind, the children were then tasked with designing their own robot for a specific task.

Halfway through the morning, we paused to undertake our latest workshop - the wonderful 'School of Noise' (which thankfully was not as loud as first feared). We learnt what causes sound and how these waves travel (including a demonstration of an alarm clock in a vacuum to prove sound needs a medium to travel through. After a series of excellent demonstrations, the children set off to explore the various stations that included playing music by tapping fruit and veg, creating patterns with salt and vibrations, putting on incredibly flattering headphones that tricked you where sounds were coming from and sending morse code messages!

Finally, in the afternoon, the children became scientists exploring forces. Their mission was to collaborate to create then test various designs for a raft from just paper. The one that held the most marbles before sinking won!