« The jobs of the future are changing ». This is the fact that we have to keep in mind asteachers and builders of the new generation. Unfortunately, students nowadays only work forcertificates and diplomas, and neglect the soft skills. That’s why we have to reinforce theirabilities in Leadership and entrepreneurship, which enable them to brainstorm new ideasand launch their own startups at an early age. We have changed our way of thinking andcreated a new family working on building a network called First Skills Club Association. Ithas been working on that issue since 2013, and it’s trying its best to be able to make a positivechange in Tunisia, Africa and the whole world. That’s why we have to teach our kids thatchange comes from within, and that we have to collaborate and communicate together for ourcountry’s benefit. One important thing I must add, “We have to teach our kids that we have toshare trust and trust each other” by respecting some values: • Clarity: People trust the clear and mistrust the ambiguous. • Compassion: People put faith in those who care beyond themselves. • Character: People notice those who do what is right over what is easy. • Competency: People have confidence in those who stay fresh and capable. • Commitment: People believe in those who stand through adversity. • Connection: People want to follow, buy from, and be around friends. • Contribution: People immediately respond to results. • Consistency: People love to see the little things done consistentlyWhen leaders learn how to implement these values, they will acquire better relationships,reputation, retention, revenue, and results. The lower the trust, the more time everythingtakes, the more everything costs, and the lower the loyalty of everyone involved. Conversely,an environment of trust leads to greater innovation, morale, and productivity. It’s certain thatthe trusted leader will be followed. From the trusted salesperson, people will buy. For thetrusted brand, people will pay more, come back, and tell others.So, it’s essential to remember that the currency of business and life is trust, not MONEY!I would like to thank all the staff, mentors, coaches, coach-assistants, participants andsupporters who believed in our aims and work.All of us are thankful to all the people and the organizations we met, which made a change inour lives and supported the FIRST SKILLS CLUB initiative especially TECHWOMEN,AUTODESK, GENERATION_CHANGE, African Youth Leadership Forum (AYLF), eSTEMMorocco, NABIHA JERAD Foundation, TELESYS, SOPAL, PRIMATEC, FIRST_GLOBAL,TECHGIRL, MAX SCHELER Kulturzentrum.All the First Skills Club team would be pleased to dedicate its great work and success to thesoul of Dr. Nabiha Jerad who is still present with us and supports us despite her physicalabsence. -Mrs. Faten KHALFALLAH
Golden Mentors 5-8• Mrs. Faten Khalfallah Hammouda………………..…... 06• Mr. Rabah Hammouda……………………………..…. 08Great staff with talented coaches 9-25• The coaching concept in the first skills club………. 10• Our coaches…………………………………………... 11Our biggest achievements 26-35• The 2017 FIRST Global Challenge…………………… 27• TechGirl……………………………...…………………31• Speakers in many events………………………………..32• Ultimaker challenge…...………………………………..34• StartApps………….…………………………………….35Brilliant Mentees 36-37• Mohamed Kallel and the Alexo award………………….37
2017 events 38-41• Summer camp for design…………………………………39• Devoxx4kids events……………………………………....40The world around us 42-46• Girls in STEM…………………………………………….43WANTED 47DIY STEM 48-53
Faten Khalfallah Hammouda Techwomen, Founder of FIRST SKILLS CLUB, Mentor in Robotics, ChanGen 2016, Regional Project Coordinator in VEX RoboticsTechWomen Alumni 2015, a certified professional mentor from the United StatesMentoring Standard, and Founder and President of the Tunisian educativeassociation First Skills Club in Sfax that aims to motivate the kids to speak andcommunicate in English via new technologies, and give them another vision to thetools they use daily (PC, Smartphone, Tablet, iPad, …). She is a Principal computerscience teacher in the Pioneer Preparatory school of Sfax and Ph.D. student inNew Technologies. After the Techwomen program, Faten got a lot of energy tocontinue working on her dream: Changing the generation to change the world. Sheis currently working with kids aged between 8 and 18 years old to motivate themand engage them in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics).She represents the Technovation Regional ambassador in Sfax, and she is workinghard to inspire more and more females to code for Robotics, Mobile Appdevelopment, Electronics, etc… She is the Autodesk Ambassador in Tunisia, andshe is introducing kids to the world of 3D design and printing. Faten was and still isthe Innovator teacher trainer in her region Sfax and was selected from the UnitedStates Institute of peace as the “Change Generation Emerging Leader 2016”.
Now she is nominated as the mentor of the Tunisian national team ofrobotics, representing Tunisia every year in the First Global Challenge.And thanks to her hard work and big achievements, she is chosen as theTunisian ambassador of the VEX Robotics, which is a competitionpresented by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation, taskingteams of students with designing and building a robot to play againstother teams in a game-based engineering challenge.
Rabah Hammouda Project manager, General Secretary and treasurer in First Skills ClubRabah HAMMOUDA is a physical education teacher in Sfax. He is a tennis trainer,Rugby trainer, member in the Sports for All association as an aerobics trainer. Hewas selected to participate in the \"PREMIER SKILLS\" project as a translator. Thisproject is an exciting partnership between the Premier League and the BritishCouncil that delivers community sports development around the world. Thisproject aims to provide a range of resources for learners and teachers of English.He was selected to teach sports in LIC University in Djibouti for 2 years.He has a set of publications in international conferences (NooJ'09 in Tozeur -Tunisia, ASCE'10 in Egypt, CIPEM'10 in Mounastir - Tunisia). He has participated inthe elaboration of the educational program titled \"Learn football English withcaptain Rabah\", destined for children who want to learn football Englishvocabulary. He has also got a diploma in Spanish.Now he is honored by being selected as the mentor of the Tunisian team ofrobotics who represent Tunisia every year in the First Global Challenge.
Starting in 2011, Mrs. Faten Khalfallah Hammouda and Mr. RebahHammouda taught the first generations of the FIRST SKILLS CLUBassociation, inspired them, and gave them more experience,knowledge and skills. Since the FIRST SKILLS CLUB founders areconvinced that the change starts from the young generations, theygave to the most experienced mentees the chance to becomecoaches who will teach new mentees and harness their creativespirit. An the strategy was really successful, as the coaches are now apart of the FSC’s staff, and they are enlarging the network quickly andimproving the mentees’ competencies and inspiring more and moremembers each passing year.Our staff now is composed of 2 mentors, 14 coaches and 11 coachassistants who are making a remarkable change in our community.
Fares Ben Hlima; a 17 year old Tunisian student from Sfax.Coachand Programmer in “First Skills Club”.Over the past years Fares has accumulated programmingexperience in a small range of areas from robot controlling in thefirst global challenge to web development. Programming is amajor part of his life , so he spends most of his day reading andsearching code resources.He is actually working on developing hisknowledge in java language as he wants to be a computerprogrammer in the future ...
Mahdi Fakhfakh; a 16 year old Tunisian student from Sfax. Coachand social media manager in “First Skills Club”. Mahdi has been inthe Tunisian association since 2013 where he learnt quite a lotabout various technology fields. He is interested in the 3D Designworld which is why he was the 3D designer for Team Tunisia inthe FIRST Global Challenge 2017 where he won with his team agolden and a silver medal.
Mariem Mimouni; 17 years old Tunisian student from Sfax.Coachand social media manager in “First Skills Club”. Technology issomething that she has been passionate about from long timeago, the idea that something she creates can impact someoneacross the world now, or in the future is what drives her passionfor Technology. She always hold the belief that” if someone cancreate technology, he can change the world
Omar KASSIS; a 17 years old student from Sfax.Coach and socialmedia manager in First Skills Club.Member in the NationalOlympic Tunisian Team of Robotics in First Global Challenge 2017.Omar has been working on enhancing his competences in theSTEM fields since being member in the First Skills Club association6 years ago. He is currently trying to share his experience andempower his skills in STEM to take part in making his communitybetter and to help the Tunisian teens to have a more motivatingatmosphere of constructive concurrence.
Ons kharrat, a pioneer high school student who is passionateabout technology.She coached mobile apps development and robotics in a Tunisianeducative association named First Skills Club for more than twoyears.After inspiring teens in her community, she was selected by theUS department of States to join the 2017 TechGirls exchangeprogram. After her experience at the US, she gathered a team ofinspiring teens and they worked on her following project.
she is a coach in a Tunisian association that encourages younglearners in order to use technology in a positive way. She is anexchange student and also keen on anything related totechnology, to the point where she believes that she was born fortechnology .she is also a candidate to be a future participant inFirst Global 2018 in Mexico City.
Sirine Amara; a 21 years old Tunisian student from Sfax. QualitySystems Manager and Coach in “First Skills Club”.Her interest hubs are business and technology. she stronglybelieve that Education, vocational skills and technical training areat the core of sustainable, inclusive, value-added economicgrowth and the coming generations are the ones who can make achange and build a better place to live in of STEM.
Syrine Ketata; a 17 year old Tunisian student from Sfax.Coach andsocial media manager in “First Skills Club”.Syrine enhanced her skills in different technology fields, and sheowes it to the fact that she's been in the association since 5 yearsago. She is currently working on expanding her knowledge in theE-health sector, as she wants to take part in developing themedical domain using technology.”
Slim Mejdoub; a 17 year old Tunisian student from Sfax. Coachand YouTube manager in “First Skills Club”, Tunisian FIRST Globalteam’s spokesperson. SLIM is passionate about Robotics andModern Technologies, and he is willing to be one of the changeleaders in his country. He is fond of Filmmaking and video editing,and this passion has motivated him to be the videographer of ourcamp ! He’s currently working hard on sharpening his skills inSTEM domains
Sami Masmoudi; a 17 year old Tunisian student from Sfax.Coachand social media manager in “First Skills Club”. Sami was amember in the Tunisian team in First Global challenge 2017. Oneof the team technicians that proved a great persistence and hardwork during the Olympic games of robotics. Sami is now on hisway to inspire his little group of girls that will participate in theVex Robotics in 2018 with his large experience ..
Tijani Kallel; a 17 year old Tunisian student from Sfax.Coach,social media manager and meeting coordinator in “First SkillsClub”. Tijani enhanced his skills in different technology fields, andhe owes it to the fact that he's been in the association since 5years ago.All long his path, he inspired to many young kids.he iscurrently working on expanding his knowledge in automation andsmart home buildings domain as he want to develop his father'scompany internationally.
\"Youssef kessentini\"; a 14 year old tunisian student from sfax.New coach and social media manager in \"First skills club\" .Youssef is trying to develop himself by using modern technology.Infact, he joined \"First skills club\" about 6 years ago and he is soexcited to see that he is making new experience and differentchallenges. He is working on 3D design and his dream is to helpothers growing their design thinking and being creative. Hebelieves that \"where you are is not where you’re going to be, becrative! \"
Ahmed Jrad; a 20 years old Tunisian student from Sfax and anexperienced Coach of programming in “First Skills Club”association. He is passionate about technology and he holds thebelief that the coming generations are the ones who can make achange and build a better Tunisia by using modern technologytools in a positive way.
A new coach in first skills club who started his coachingexperience this year
A new coach in first skills club who started his coachingexperience this year
The FIRST Global Challenge is an international robotics event, with morethan 150 nations across the world traveling to the United States toparticipate in the game. This challenge aims to ignite a passion forScience, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) among morethan two billion teenagers across the world.
And in 2017, seven motivated Tunisian teenagers who dream of making achange in our country, proudly honored Tunisia by proving that TunisianTeens are skilled enough to design and code robots. And out of the 160participating countries, Tunisia has distinguished itself by getting thesilver medal for “Albert Einstein Awards for Global InternationalExcellence”, as the robot of Team Tunisia was one of the three robotsthat performed the best during the FIRST Global Challenge andexemplified all of the tenets of the FIRST Global community.And as First Skills Club added value to the mission of the FIRST Global bysupporting, assisting and motivating the national Tunisian Team, FirstSkills Club, represented by team Tunisia won a golden medal as part of“Al-Khwarizmi Award for Outstanding Supporters”.Even after this remarkable success, First Skills Club will keep onsupporting and mentoring a national team each year to take part in theFIRST Global events and to proudly honor the national colors worldwide.And these are some words from the 2017 Tunisian team’s members.And these are some words from the 2017 Tunisian team’s members.
“I made my life flow to the right path by joining the club.IStarted from the bottom, climbed through the struggles and won thechallenges thanks to my mentors and my team's support! I mighthave learnt a lot... but I haven't developed the skillset, knowledgeand experience to be at the top yet... I'll keep grinding and won'tstop until my work is perfectly done and success is finally mine!” -Sami Masmoudy Sami Masmoudy“First Global Challenge was a life-changing experience for me; Igained a lot of knowledge in the robotics domain and discovered newcultures. In fact, I think that we achieved our main goal as Tunisianparticipants because we made new connections all over the worldand left a positive impact in this challenge.” -Fares Ben Hlima“Participating in the First Global Challenge has changed a lot about me,especially my view and my vision of the world and the way I’m thinkingof people [that are] different than me. In fact, when we moved fromone work place to another it seemed exactly like the world tour, not in80 days but only in just 3 days. So why do we keep saying the world istoo big? And it is true that we are all different but at the end that’s whywe are created: to participate in such a competition like the First globalchallenge. There, we cooperated with other teams and we workedtogether and after our success we decided that we must change ourcommunity and we have to start the change from transmitting what welearned there to the next generations. - Slim Majdoub
What I loved the most during the FGC2017 experience was that felt thatwe made the world tour in only 4 days. We met people from differentnations at the same place. All of us were working on the same problemwith patience to reach the same objective in order to help the world toaccess to clean and drinkable water. I was fascinated how organized theevent was. Since being a member of First Skills Club, I’ve never missedany occasion to learn. I’ve been seizing every opportunity to developmy skills. I learned in FGC2017 plenty of things. The participation insuch competitions isn’t about being in the first place because we allwinners since we are learning and progressing. Teamwork andmanagement of time and resources are soft skills that are endorsedthrough this competition. Team 2017 has lived one of the mosthonoring experiences and it’s our duty to transmit what we got to thenext teams and generations -Omar Kassis The First Global Challenge 2017 has been a life-changing experience for each and every single member of the National Olympic Team. On their behalf, I can confirm that we all wish to participate again in this international phenomenon. Anyone could say that he or she travelled somewhere in this world but those who participated in #FGC2017 can say they travelled everywhere and saw all the different cultures from all the various continents. This adventure was definitely worth all the blood, sweat and tears. I’m honored to have the privilege of saying that I, alongside my team, represented Tunisia in the first ever international Olympic event for robotics and we won two medals and we owe huge thanks to our mentors who believed in us sometimes more than we did and gave us the opportunity to live this experience and we thank them a lot for their everything they’ve done. We now want to pass everything we learnt and inspire Tunisian youth to innovate to build a better future for our beloved Tunisia. –Mahdi Fakhfakh
TechGirls is an international summer exchange program designed toempower and inspire young girls from the Middle East and North Africa topursue careers in science and technology. It's an initiative of the USDepartment of State Bueau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, and it'sadministrated by Legacy International.I was an international exchange student as I'm one of the 2017 TechGirlsalumni. And during my experience in the US, I was involved in activities suchas site visits to technology companies (Google, Echo&Co, NPR, ISL ..),leadership clinics, community service opportunities, job shadowing andcultural events.Added to that, I participated in a technology camp in Virginia Tech University.This camp provided me with new skills in Java programming and mobileapplication development as I was engaged in 45+ hours of hands-oninstruction.
Along our path, the success that the association made led to the invitation of ourmentor and many of our talented coaches and mentees to be speakers in numerousevents. Those added a big value, first to the association, and second to theprofessional life of the coaches and the mentees involved. Show me the Path: Starting with the events our mentor was invited to, Mrs. Faten, thanks to her great CV full of big achievements, had the honor of being a speaker in an event named “Show Me the Path” which took place in the School of National Engineers in Gabes (ENIG). This event was held for the students there, soon-to-be engineers. She spoke about to many things that may help them, and, as the event’s name mentioned, she showed them the right path for success by transmitting her experience. She inspired them by talking about her success story, and how she overcame all the obstacles that came her way. International Girls in ICT Day, an initiative supported by International Telecommunication Union, aims to create a global environment that empowers and encourages girls and young women to consider careers in the growing field of ICTs. International Girls in ICT Day is celebrated on the 4th Thursday of April. On 2017, this event took place in the TECHNOPOLE of Sfax. And by that occasion, the First Skills Club was invited! Our mentor, Mrs. Faten Khalfallah Hammouda as a speaker, and the most talented girls from the coaches and mentees, were also invited to participate in the competition that took place there that day. The objective of the competition was to assist the girls and help them develop great mobile apps that would be useful to women in the world, and specifically in our community. As usual, Mrs. Faten fascinated the attendees with her speech there, and our girls did as well by well presenting the apps they created. That’s why they won the competition.
On March 8th, the whole world celebrates theinternational women’s day. And here in Tunisia,since women have a very big and important place inour community, the Higher Institute of ComputerScience and Multimedia of Sfax organized an eventto celebrate that occasion. The First Skills Club’smentor Mrs. Faten and the coaches Ons Kharrat,Mariem Mimouni, Roua Guetat, Syrine Ketata andSirine Amara were invited as speakers. They talkedabout many subjects, most importantly how theassociation aims to encourage girls in STEM. Andthey had the pleasure to fascinate all the audiencewatching them.Mariem Mimouni is a very talented coach in the FSC, and herpassion for technology, as well as the great efforts she madeall along her path, were the reasons she was chosen as aspeaker in an international organization called eSTEM Morocco(environmental Science, Technology, Engineering &Mathematics) which is an NGO (Non-governmentalorganization) that strives to give more confidence and tools toyoung girls and women in Morocco, in order to encouragethem develop a bright career in scientific and technologicalfields. Using mentoring and role modeling, it aims to changehow thousands of girls think about these man-dominatedfields. Mariem had the chance to inspire young girls there bytelling her success story. Here is what she said: “After finishingmy speech as one of the speakers in the “girls’ success story”part, one of the girls there came to me and said: \"I was alwayswondering how I can be successful in my life, how I can proveto people around me that I'm able to do something. But afterlistening to your story, I decided not to stop and to believe inmyself... You became my inspiration. Thank you so much!\"Hearing these touching words from a young girl really mademy day because this is what inspiration is about.” Thisexperience has added a big value to Mariem’s professional lifeand to her CV.
One of the most important activities in the First SkillsClub is 3D design. That’s why, in 2017, three talentedFirst Skills Club members who areare Kais Adhar,FediGuetat and SaifKammoun, participated, in 2017, inthe Ultimaker Education Challenge. This competitionhelps educators share their 3D printing experiences andshow the true potential of this technology. Our creativemembers saw that nowadays, school bags are a majorproblem for pupils in Tunisia due to their heavy weight.So‚ they designed a “Smart School Bag”. It works withan Arduino card. Its top and its front are made ofleather to be waterproof, its bottom is made of nickelto support the heavy school furniture and its wheels aremade of glossy black plastic to be light and easy tocarry. The judges were really impressed by thecreativity of our team, especially considering that theyare the youngest participants in the world. As a result,they won the Ultimaker3+. This 3D printer brought lotsof benefits for our association. z
StartApps is a mobile app development competition. It’s aninitiative from the First Skills Club coaches Ons Kharrat,Mariem Mimouni, Roua Guetat and Sirine Ketata, and it’ssupervised by the First Skills Club mentors. StartApps is acompetition that aims to give an opportunity for the FirstSkills Club members aged between 10 and 18 years old toshow their talents in Application development, businessplanning, communication and team work.In 2017, we organized the first edition of StartApps. Duringthis unique competition, First Skills Club members had thechance to work in teams (up to 5 members), supported bytheir mentors and coaches, to identify a problem in ourcommunity, and create a mobile App solution to solve it.Furthermore, they learnt how to communicate their ideas andtranslate them into a business. After working hard, teamspresented their ideas during the Pitch event, in front of thejudges who evaluated the different works. All in all, StartAppsdidn’t only give the First Skills Club members the chance todevelop mobile Apps, but also offered them the opportunityto learn the skills they need to emerge as tech entrepreneursand leaders.In 2018, we plan on organizing the second edition ofStartApps, and it’s going to be about “Tunisia 2030”.**Winner of the First edition:-1st place: The Leaders team, who developed the “TimeSavior” app-2nd place: Reinas Team, who developed the “Stop Pollution”app-3rd place: Enjoy Time team, who developed the “Go English”app
Here in FSC, we have the honor to say proudly that we have the most talentedmentees in all of Tunisia, since those kids keep surprising our staff and the entireworld with their new and great achievements. 2017 was a year full of success, andduring it some of our mentees proved themselves by making a great impact, andparticipating in some international competitions. These were divided into twodifferent categories: ones that are individual and others that are based onteamwork. For the individual competitions, a young First Skills Club mentee called Mohamed Kallel represented Tunisia in the whole Arab world by participating in a big international competition named “AlecsoApps Award”. This competition aims to identify the young talented people in the region and help them overcome all the difficulties that kill their innovation, and lead them to give up on their dreams. One of its goals is adding a value and a dynamic to the mobile app development domain to attract kids. The objective of this event is making a mobile app to solve one of the main problems the participant has noticed in his or her community. And we proudly say that this young talented boy Mohamed, a member in the FSC since 2 years ago, honored us, his family and our dear country Tunisia by winning this competition.
In the First Skills Club, we believe that the summer holiday is a very important period that we have to benefit from. That’s why, each summer, we organize the “Summer Camp for Design”. And as our Co- Founder and mentor Faten Khalfallah Hammouda had professional training in theAutodesk Company as a partof the TechWomen program,and represents the Autodesk regional ambassador, this camp was organized incollaboration with Autodesk. The second edition of thesummer camp was held from the 2nd to the 6th of July 2017, and during this edition, participants competed to design a 3D model of a mechanism/machine that turns undrinkable water drinkable.
As First Skills Club aims to empower the Tunisian Youth via STEM education, we opened the firstand only local chapter for the devoxx4kids organization in Tunisia. The mission of thisorganization is to inspire young people from all nations to get into programming, robotics andengineering through providing them with a fun and interactive way of coding. Consequently, FirstSkills Club organized two devoxx4Kids events so far.
The first event was held on the 19th of October, 2017 and was dedicated to the sole of Dr.Nabiha Jerad, who is a brave Tunisian woman who encouraged and empowered theTunisian Youth when she was alive. This event took place in Kerkennah Island, which is apoor Tunisian island where youth don’t get the chance to explore modern Technologytools. And, with more than 12 workshops animated by the First Skills Club coaches andmentor, 40+ Tunisian learners aged between 12 and 17 years old got introduced to robots(NXT, EV3 and Alpha 1s), mobile app development and coding. Added to that, theseparticipants had the possibility to improve their pitching and communication skills as theypitched their small projects at the end of the event. For the second Devoxx4Kids event, we chose to celebrate the Tunisian Independence Day in a special way. That’s why we organized, on the 20th of Mach 2017, a Devoxx4Kids event named “Robotics Day” in the “EL Bacha Primary School” in the city of Sfax. During this special opportunity, the First Skills Club staff members sensitized the young learners on ways to address societal issues with cutting-edge technology.
Of course it does! First of all, there’s no evidence that girls are less capable in these fields, but rather that they often ‘feel’ less capable, partly due to stereotyping. Second, there’s a tendency for STEM jobs to be higherpaid, meaning that the lack of women in these roles is contributing to gender salary gap. A lack of women in thesefields means fewer female role models, both for current female STEM employees, and for girls still making their career choices.
Let’s first think and talk about kids in STEM in general! Did you know that research has shown that science achievement gaps emerge starting from kindergarten, and these gaps continue until at least the end of eighth grade? (That’s the case, according to this study.) So, if kids don’t get enough exposure to science concepts and informal learning opportunities in preschool or earlier, then they’ll be starting kindergarten with relatively less knowledge about the physical and natural sciences. And this gap will likely haunt them for the next nine years or more. Now if we look at STEM for young girls in particular, what’s alarming is that evenwhere there is no difference in STEM ability,a large divide in ‘perceived competence’ forgirls can start as early as age five. (This article on the way society treats boys and girls differently, and how boys and girls view themselves even when STEM abilities are equal, is very interesting.) If you add in the lack of female role-models in the STEM workforce (both in real life, and in the media), the distressing stereotyping and dumbing-down of many ‘girl’ toys, and theoften subtle (and not so subtle) marketing of STEM concepts to boys…
The old adage is that you can’t become what you can’t see. Take your kids tofemale doctors and dentists. Find out if any of the moms at school work in STEM, and then point this out to your child. Seek out books and movies that feature strong female STEM characters. If you’re a momor female teacher reading this, don’t forget that you can be a positive female role- model too. Next time you need to drill ahole in the wall, do it yourself, and let the kids catch you doing it.
CNC Machine CNC Machining is a process used in the manufacturing sector that involves the use ofcomputers to control machine tools. Tools that canbe controlled in this manner include lathes, mills, routers and grinders. The CNC in CNC Machining stands for Computer Numerical Control. 6000$
Materials Used:We used a train table board as a building surface.• Wooden Clothespins• Binder Clips – Ours are 3/4 inch wide• Colored Jumbo Craft Sticks – 6 inches long
Build a structure that can support the most possible weight.For this one, you could either challenge kids to build a true bridge, or just astructure that supports weight.Two clothespins with a craft stick between them make great supports for astructure.We couldn’t believe how much weight this could hold! Wedidn’t keep going to find the capacity on this one, but Greshambuilt another one that held many, many chapter books (about25!) before collapsing!
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