www.discoverengineering.org provides instant access to 3 “crazy cool” videos designed and produced for students in grades 6, 7, and 8. Videos are also available on DVD for classroom or auditorium showings. Call 412-741-1393 to order.

Video Summaries

Video #1 – Engineers for a Sustainable World (Purifying Water & Making a Difference)
How do you make gross, nasty water drinkable? In this video students learn about water filtration, build a system that works, and drink the water to prove it! Produced in cooperation with Engineers for a Sustainable World, they understand how engineering helps developing communities around the world with this critical need.

Video #2 – Computer Game Designers (Wind Turbines & Software Design)
Planet Helios is running out of energy! In this video IBM engineers show how computers are used to design the wind turbines in PowerUp!—their new interactive game—that save the planet from extinction.

Activity: Students build and test their own wind turbine design that is imported into the game.

Video #3 – The Amazing Solar Decathlon (Renewable Energy & Solar Cooking)

This ‘crazy cool’ video features the 2007 Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C. and the amazing solar-powered features of homes of the future.

Activity: Students learn about alternate energy sources and build their own solar cooker.

What else will you find at the site?

  • Cool stuff to try at home
  • Fun FAQs
  • Dozens of links and downloads
  • And much more!