STEM learn-ing lab visits Clarksville

By: 
Bethany Carson

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Hawkeye Community College’s STEM mobile learning lab visited Clarksville Community Schools last week.
     High school science teacher Dan Kuchera and Junior high science teacher Ashten Henningsen hosted activities in the mobile science station, which is equipped with cutting-edge technology including Zspace virtual reality, 3D glasses, 3D MRI visualization software and 3D printers.
     “While the students in physical science class normally discover Newton’s laws with carts and timers and apply their discoveries to answer questions, solve problems and launch a variety of rockets, the STEMi adds to that instruction by allowing students to virtually view and move through the international space station or walk on the surface of mars, to program and run small robots (such as those which took the images they viewed, and to carry out experiments in simulated 4-D conditions that match those on Earth’s moon and Mars and Jupiter,” said Kuchera.
     Students in other classes, such as anatomy, enjoyed working in the lab as well. 

 
Read more in the November 23rd edition of the STAR.

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