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I highly recommend the television series Numb3rs, currently available on Hulu. It features the premise of two brothers, one in the FBI and the other a math genius, who find ways to solve crimes together. The father, played by Judd Hirsch, is described as a city planner. His knowledge of infrastructure ...

Hi everyone-- Please consider me a resource for you, not just in terms of how ASCE does outreach, but also for learning questions in general. I have over 30 years experience in a variety of educational settings. I worked from home as an educational writer/consultant with pre-schoolers, and when my ...

Hi Heidi-- I love the description of the core sampling activity! I don't think my elementary school had much in the way of hands-on science experiences, but we always had science related magazines such as National Geographic available at home. I didn't read the articles, but I loved looking at ...

Thanks for sharing this Katie! We've just posted a similar activity, Water Pollution Clean Up, to the Everyday Engineering: STEM@Home materials. I'm going to share the link to the Orange County Branch video as part of the activity support. We've just posted a new video showing the activity with more ...

Hi Dani--Do you think that you could do a short video of yourself, or someone from Philly, doing that activity so we could share it in the Everyday Engineering list? It has to be 2-minutes or less. Let me know and we can discuss what's needed. I definitely think that schools are going to be hypervigilant ...

Hi Luis-- Please keep me posted if you create a structures experiment to do at home. The activities developed for Dream Big: Engineering Our World may give you a starting point. We just released home-based versions of Windy City Tower and Build an Earthquake Resistant Structure. You can find the collection ...

Just wanted to let you know that ASCE has a wide variety of materials that can be used with kids. We're beefing this up even more by creating a series "Everyday Engineering: STEM@Home" where we share how to do some of our Dream Big activities in the home environment. Our first activity "Foil Boats" talks ...