Teacher Ryan Zehren assists two third-grade boys in constructing their dancing robot.
Place: Cora Kelly STEM School
Activity: LEGO Robotics
Date: June 2011
Article: Learning Liftoff
Photo Credit: Steve Barrett
Andrae Jones works with two third-grade girls on their LEGO robotics project.
Place: Cora Kelly STEM School
Activity: LEGO Robotics
Date: June 2011
Article: Learning Liftoff
Photo Credit: Steve Barrett
A third-grader consults the robotics plans.
Place: Cora Kelly STEM School
Activity: LEGO Robotics
Date: June 2011
Article: Learning Liftoff
Photo Credit: Steve Barrett
Fourth-grade boys set up their bottle rocket and pump under the supervision of science teacher Judith Haskins.
Place: Cora Kelly STEM School
Activity: LEGO Robotics
Date: June 2011
Article: Learning Liftoff
Photo Credit: Steve Barrett
A third-grader consults the robotics plans.
The boys take turns pumping air into the water through the rubber tubing.
Place: Cora Kelly STEM School
Activity: LEGO Robotics
Date: June 2011
Article: Learning Liftoff
Photo Credit: Steve Barrett
Fourth-grade boys set up their bottle rocket and pump under the supervision of science teacher Judith Haskins.
No one knows at exactly what point enough pressure will build for the rocket to launch.
Place: Cora Kelly STEM School
Activity: LEGO Robotics
Date: June 2011
Article: Learning Liftoff
Photo Credit: Steve Barrett
Bubbles build as the students pump.
Place: Cora Kelly STEM School
Activity: LEGO Robotics
Date: June 2011
Article: Learning Liftoff
Photo Credit: Steve Barrett
Finally the rocket takes off.
Place: Cora Kelly STEM School
Activity: LEGO Robotics
Date: June 2011
Article: Learning Liftoff
Photo Credit: Steve Barrett
The rocket leaves trails of water across the sky.
Place: Cora Kelly STEM School
Activity: LEGO Robotics
Date: June 2011
Article: Learning Liftoff
Photo Credit: Steve Barrett
The girls take a turn with their rocket, and filled with less water, it goes the furthest.
Place: Cora Kelly STEM School
Activity: LEGO Robotics
Date: June 2011
Article: Learning Liftoff
Photo Credit: Steve Barrett
The students watch the rocket in flight.
Place: Cora Kelly STEM School
Activity: LEGO Robotics
Date: June 2011
Article: Learning Liftoff
Photo Credit: Steve Barrett

A rocket takes off unexpectedly as the fourth-grade boys help fifth-graders check the tubing.
Place: Cora Kelly STEM School
Activity: LEGO Robotics
Date: June 2011
Article: Learning Liftoff
Photo Credit: Steve Barrett
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