Engineering Is The Coolest @ The National Building Museum
‘National Building Museum’
courtesy of ‘kimberlyfaye’
What’s an engineer? He’s that guy who wears overalls, that cute stripped hat and shovels coals into the trains engine, right? As Auntie Shrew would say “Wrrrrrrrong!” Engineers are much, much, much more than that. And to find out how engineers and engineering impacts our everyday lives, visit the National Building Museum this Saturday from 10am-4:30pm and celebrate National Engineers Week.
Watch PBS’ Design Squad Nation catapult beach balls across the Great Hall, discover the principles of aerodynamics, operate Lego Robots on the FIRST Lego League playing field. The event features other hands-on activities like building a “flinker,” an object that neither floats or sinks, design your own parachute drop, test/build handmade watercrafts, and expore a tsunami wave tank.
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2 Responses to “Engineering Is The Coolest @ The National Building Museum”
February 14th, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Actually it was the fireman that shoveled the coal, the engineer operates the throttle and the brakes.
February 14th, 2011 at 2:32 pm
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