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The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this experiment on forming brass and bronze from pennies. Students will use post and pre-1983 pennies to create bronze and brass alloys. The class will learn the differences between brass, bronze and copper as well as laboratory...

“10 Simple and Effective In-class Experiments and Demonstrations for Materials Education–An Overview,” is a formal evaluation of 10 basic activities which can be utilized in classrooms from the elementary level through undergraduate. The modules evaluated during this review were compiled by...

This video is provided by Bio-Link and was filmed at the 2012 City College of San Francisco (CCFS) Biotechnology Networking Event. The video provides a brief overview of the event and biotechnology students in the Bridge to Biotech program at CCSF talk about their motivation to study biotechnology....

Program Description: In fall 2014, the Minnesota State Advanced Manufacturing Center of Excellence and its partners coordinated over 85 manufacturing businesses and three two-year colleges across Minnesota to provide tours of their facilities for students and educators, job seekers, other...

This video, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is a demonstration of electric guitar neck and fretboard assembly. Topics covered include fretboard nut area contour; fret dot location, drilling, and gluing; aligning and gluing the fretboard to the neck; and securing the glued pieces for...

This report, provided by the Minnesota State Advanced Manufacturing Center of Excellence at Bemidji State University, details the results of a survey following the Dream It. Do It. Minnesota Statewide Tour of Manufacturing.  The program consisted of 119 tours to students, families, and the general...

This slide deck accompanied a presentation given by Alan Zube of Florida State College at Jacksonville and Mike Tanner of Waukegan High School at the 2018 Hi-Tech conference in Miami, Florida. This presentation addresses the low cost manufacturing trainer that was developed by a project team with...

This video, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is a narrated demonstration of the creation of the geometrical shape of electric guitar bodies in Fusion 360 computer-aided manufacturing software. Topics covered include: Introduction, Spline Creation, Line Creation, and Arc Creation. The video...

This video provides information about the Badge Pathway at Minnesota State Advanced Manufacturing Center of Excellence, and covers topics such as what digital badges are, how to participate, and the college scholarship that students may be eligible for upon completion of the program. The video runs...

This 24-page report, published by Palos Verdes High School, describes the design and construction of Mamba, an underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV). This report was created by the Palos Verdes Institute of Technology (PVIT), a student group that participated in the 2021 MATE ROV competitions...