Energy
Space, the Final Frontier
Mixed Bag
People from STEM
STEM!
100
This type of energy can be thought of as movement energy.
What is kinetic energy?
100
These are natural or man-made bodies in orbit around a planet.
What are satellites?
100
This building in New York is 1250 feet tall at its roof.
What is the Empire State Building?
100
This bespectacled man from Pennsylvania's past flew a kite in a storm to experiment with electricity.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
100
This is what the T stands for in STEM.
What is Technology?
200
This energy might be huge, or it might be small, but it might not move anywhere at all.
What is potential energy?
200
This takes 8 minutes to get from space to the planet earth.
What is sunlight?
200
This type of space craft went into space in 1981, and was retired from use in 2011.
What is the NASA Space Shuttle?
200
This gentleman who trains astronauts was one of our regular guests at STEM Saturdays.
Who is Mr. Greg Kennedy?
200
This is the fancier name for the building part of STEM.
What is engineering?
300
This energy results from a reaction between elements.
What is chemical energy?
300
This is the number of planets currently in our solar system
What is eight planets? (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus. Sorry, Pluto.)
300
This day in October was the day that Charles Darwin got back to England after his 5 year journey aboard the HMS Beagle.
What is October 2, 1836?
300
This STEM teacher actually knew the most about science BEFORE Stem Saturdays started.
Who is Miss Molly Finnegan?
300
You'll have to add it up to figure out what the M in STEM stands for.
What is Math/Mathematics?
400
In the ground, or in the sky, this type of energy will be warming up from low to high.
What is thermal energy?
400
This is the name for distance traveled by light in one year's time.
What is a light-year?
400
This solution covers more than 2/3rds of the surface of the Earth.
What is water?
400
This man sailed on the HMS Beagle and came up with a Theory of Evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
400
This is the number of people who successfully completed STEM Saturdays.
What is 9?
500
This kind of energy can be created by either potential or kinetic energy.
What is mechanical energy?
500
Extremely powerful versions of these can see stars so far away it's like looking into the past. We built some less powerful versions a few weeks ago.
What are telescopes?
500
Nathan Sawaya makes artwork out of these building toys that were created in Denmark in the 1960s.
What are LEGOs?
500
This Englishman gave us physics, the laws of motion and the law of gravitation, after an apple dropped on his head.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
500
This group of people in the room is awesome.
What is everyone here?
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