Iridescent 12/5/2014

For ACAS on 12/5 we hosted the organization Iridescent (iridescentlearning.org), Iridescent is a science education non profit. They organized a project making Cam mechanisms with the kids, a Cam mechanism is a mechanism that takes rotational movement and turns it into linear movement.

The kids worked inside cardboard boxes, to help stabilize their mechanisms. Once they got the basics working they could decide how they wanted to design around this motion.

Here is one kids "head bopper" when the handle on the side is turned, the head on the top pops up and down.