Creative Coalition STEM - Candy Wave

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Age Group:

Tweens, Teens

Program Description

Event Details

Get ready for the ultimate mashup of physics, engineering, and sugar in this deliciously challenging event! Your mission: design and build a wave machine that creates the most impressive wave motion using only candy and basic materials.

 

Learning Objectives: 

  • Understand how energy transfers through connected objects in a kinetic chain, including how potential energy converts to kinetic energy as the wave propagates 

  • Learn the basic principles of wave motion, including amplitude (wave height), frequency (how fast it moves), and wavelength (distance between peaks), and demonstrate these concepts in their candy wave design