Penn State Behrend’s summer College for Kids program cloaks learning in immersive and imaginative play: Students become storm chasers, champion cake-bakers, Olympic athletes and wizards at Hogwarts.
The Math Options Career Day at Penn State Behrend uses hands-on workshops to teach students how math is used in everyday activities. In one session, students bungee-drop Barbie dolls.
Students at Penn State Behrend's Math Options Career Day build foam roller coasters to learn about momentum and kinetic energy. "It made me think about how someone would have to plan and design a roller coaster to go upside down," said Sierra Cruz, a student at Fairview Middle School.
