fischertechnik Product Manager, Lance Zurek, worked closely with the Minnick Schools, the education division of Lutheran Family Services of Virginia, Grant Coordinator, Diane Merryman, to present the Minnick School system with 35 fischertechnik kits to be used for project-based STEM education programs. Minnick Schools specialize in educating special needs students with learning disabilities, behavioral issues and Autism. After using fischertechnik … Read More
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Recently, the fischertechnik Division at Studica, Inc. announced a partnership with Minnick Schools, the education division of Lutheran Family Services of Virginia. The goal of this partnership is to explore how fischertechnik can be used in educating students with Autism and special needs, and to develop materials that can be shared by all teachers working with this unique population. Studica … Read More
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fischertechnik (and Spider-Man) Make a Guest Appearance at the Wasatch Institute of Technology’s “Hour of Code” Event hosted by Adobe. It’s always interesting to see how fischertechnik is used to help introduce students to technology and STEM related concepts. Recently, Annika Boudwin with “Wasatch Inventors and Explorers” in Utah, (one of our fischertechnik family of resellers) shared some photos with … Read More
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Earlier this summer, Information Communications Technology (ICT) Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM) students from Heart Lake Secondary School attended a Robotics and Controls Hardware Interfacing Course at Studica Limited in Mississauga, Ontario. Studica Limited provided the students with fishertechnik, National Instruments myDAQ and mySTEM hardware products. The students were then asked to program and control a system of components and … Read More
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When we last looked in on the students at Westfield Vocational Technical High School in Westfield MA, they had just completed the second project in the fischertechnik High School STEM Lab Program. Recently they have just completed the module focusing on basic electricity. As you probably know from past blog postings, and from our webinars on the fischertechnik STEM Lab … Read More
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As I ran a bit long in the last fischertechnik blog post (what else is new?), I was unable to mention a couple of cool snippets of fischertechnik news that I want to share with you now. The first bit of news concerns RoboRAVE International 2014, which was held in Bernalillo, New Mexico at the beginning of May. RoboRAVE, for … Read More
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If you are a regular reader of the fischertechnik blog posts, you’ve no doubt heard us discuss how project based learning and other non-lecture classroom formats have been shown to be most effective methods for addressing the STEM education dilemma. With this in mind, a few stories in the news caught my eye. The first, from the Homeland Security News … Read More
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Spring is here, and besides being what we hope is the tail end of all of these ‘polar vortex’ events so many of us have had to endure this past winter, it’s also the time when we get to announce the new product releases for fischertechnik 2014. New fischertechnik 2014 The first two releases expected in the next month are: Tractor … Read More
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In our last fischertechnik blog entry, we looked in at the students at Westfield Vocational Technical School in Westfield, MA, as they worked through their initial design challenge as part of the fischertechnik STEM Lab Program, that of creating a braking system for a racing bike. We shared photos of some of the prototypes they created, as well as excerpts … Read More
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Often in the classroom realism is difficult to obtain when explaining and experimenting with real world systems, processes, and naturally occurring forces. Simulation has come a long way in providing our students with the realism that is required when learning through software simulations such as Finite Element Analysis and Digital Prototyping but physical attributes of engineered systems are sometimes more … Read More
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