™
Mathstronauts™
Mathstronauts offers math enrichment classes for students and math enrichment activities/materials for teachers to use in the classroom. The classes will introduce the fun side of mathematics and/or show how math is used in engineering fields, aviation, computer science, etc. Students may also learn basic programming skills and become familiar with mathematical programs such as Matlab, Mathematica, Maple, or Derive. Class offerings will be based on the level of interest.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mathstronauts Math and Science Camps - 2009
June 22 - July3, 2009 Pueblo, CO
More info to follow
July 13 - 31, 2009 Denver, CO
Location: Church in the City/Beth Abraham
16th & Gaylord, Denver, CO
Time: 9:00AM - 4:00PM
Tentative Schedule
Week 1 Rockets & Flying Things - flight, rockets, parabolic motion, basics of trigonometry, insects, etc.
Week 2 City Builders - Engineering, structures, geometry, trebuchets, electricity, structure of human body, Newton's laws of Motion, etc.
Week 3 Disaster Zone/Alien Life (Meteorology/Astronomy) - Modeling Tornadoes, volcanoes, & other disasters; water cycle, ocean
ocean life, finding life in the universe, light & sound labs, etc.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Dinosaur Ridge Field Trip
Date: TBA
Students will view dinosaur fossils, talk to oil geologists, and see the source and leaking spots of Denver's natural gas and oil. More info to follow.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
PAST EVENTS:
Field Trips
Math Pioneers takes students on field trips to witness math and science applications in industry. Click on the Field Trip link on the left to see past fields trips!
Shades of Blue
Shades of Blue is a Math Pioneer partner and an educational organization designed to help identify and prepare students for a career in aviation and aerospace. Click on the Shades of Blue link on the left to see the past ace camps and awards dinners Math Pioneers members participated in.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pictures of CITC Math and Science Camp 2005 & 2006 & 2007 & 2008:
Geometry
Platonic City
Regular Hexahedrons inside of Regular Octahedron Shells
Fractal Geometry in Africa
Trying to recreate traditional African hairstyles, only described by fractal geometry using Dr. Eglash's fractal generator program
Zome Town
Zome Tool Bubbles
Conic Central
Creating Conic Cross Sections from Jello Cones
Working with tangrams!
Meteorology/Earth Science
TWISTER CITY!
Kids adjust the size of the tornado by adding more/less heat, increasing/decreasing the amount of air flow from the sides by adjusting size of the door openings, and/or increasing the fan speed. They observe all of the ingredients of a tornado.
Kids Erupting a volcano! Seismosgraph Demo
Chemistry!
Flame tests
Electrolosis - which tube contains hydrogen/oxygen? Fire Demo
Our future non-invasive cardiologist demonstrates why sunsets are red and helps kids test the PH of common household items.
Physics
Our budding electrical engineer demonstrates how to create an electrical circuit and how the Mag-Lev train works.
Newton's Cradle
Making a Spectograph Static Electricity
Biology
Showing off his Marshmallow DNA Checking out the biology table
Checking out Anatomy Models Toddlers enjoying using the microscope
Engineering Day
Gum Drop Structures
Balloon Car Races
Making the Cars
Racing the cars
Casualty Egg Drop Survivors
Students design containers for their egg-personsto survive the drop from the highest point of the roof of the church building.
Sphaghetti Bridge Spaghetti Tower
H20 Bottle Rockets
CO2 Rocket H2 Powered Rocket
Rocketry with Colorado Springs Rocket Society(COSROCS)
Building Estes Rockets with Dr. Layfield,
retired NASA rocket scientist and co-founder of COSROCS
Launch Day
Thanks, Dr. Layfield & COSROCS!
*********************************************************
Engaging & Intriguing Presentation on the Human Body & the Field of Medicine
with Nurse Penne
"Cough, Cough, ... I can't breathe!"
Pumping up healthy and smoker's sheep lungs with air pump to show how smoking damages lungs and prevents lung expansion
Ewe, gross! Let me touch the sheep lungs!
Feeling the difference between healthy and smoker's lungs
Thanks, Nurse Penne! See you next year!
************************************************************
Moon, Mars, & Beyond E-Mission
with Challenger Center of Colorado
Mission Control
"The [group] was organized into 5 planet teams to help NASA locate and rescue a lost space ship that was orbiting one of the outer planets. Each planet team consisted of Cargo, Navigation and Transmissions Specialists. The Cargo Specialists calculated the number of days for a round trip to their planet and the amount of food, water and oxygen needed for the rescue trip. The Navigation Specialists plotted coordinates to help get some location information on the lost space ship. The Transmissions Specialists decoded messages which give them clues about the location of the space ship over the last 5 days. All teams worked together using information they receive to determine where the lost ship is located. The Communications Team relayed all information to Mission Control so that the rescue ship with all the loaded cargo was launched from the base on Mars to that planet." After much time, our group did indeed locate the lost ship and were ecstatic.
Communications Team
Navigation, Cargo, & Transmissions Specialists
************************************************************************************************************
Thanks, Denver Tech for All for providing the computers for the camp each year and for donating computers to hard-working camp participants who do not own computers at home!
