SWE ATL and Imagine
It! The Children’s Museum of Atlanta Need you!!!
Over the last
18 months, SWE members have been working behind the scenes with the educators
and designers at the museum to design a permanent simple machines exhibit
for the museum floor. ATL-SWE members, identified the need for
more science at museum, developed the concepts, which have been vetted by the
museum educational staff, making sure that the tools are going to stand up to
the hundreds of thousands of young visitors each year, and are now ready to get
them built! This project aims to incorporate the science of simple
machines for kids and parents to learn together through new hands on vignettes covering
the concepts of pulleys, inclined planes, and levers.
What we need:
·
1-3
people with Solid Works (or AutoCAD) expertise to translate the vignette
concept sketches into digital design files
·
1-3
people to purchase and build prototype vignettes
·
Everyone
to keep an eye out for the upcoming special meeting where we will try out the
concepts at the museum.
Note,
we do not require volunteers to be SWE members or even women – all support
is welcome (and desperately needed)!
Please
contact Wendy Cocke (wendy.cocke@kcc.com) if
you can help in any capacity.