Wauwatosa School District PLTW Club

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This would be a cool Wauwatosa Montessori school project pr a Wauwatosa West Astronomy project based learning activity...new modeling techniques

1. Mix
2. Back
3. Repeat three times

4. Eat

5. Repeat until gone!

http://www.waitwow.com/make-scientifically-accurate-cake-planets/

How to Bake Scientifically Accurate Cake Planets These planetary cakes are the most incredible thing I’ve seen today!

A little late but this was from last Halloween....great hit!

Here is the link to the 2015 Rube Video. More Rube fun!

https://youtu.be/1W4DVgWx8DY

2015 Wauwatosa West High School National Rube Goldberg Team 2015 Wauwatosa School District PLTW Club, Wauwatosa West Rube Goldberg Team competed in the Division 2 (High School) Southeast Wisconsin Section of the Natio...

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2016/03/11/good-at-math-win-free-pizza-for-314-years-from-pizza-hut-on-pi-day/

Good at math? Win free pizza for 3.14 years from Pizza Hut on Pi Day Calling all pizza-loving geniuses.

Yesterday was National Worship Your Tools Day...here is an article about a UW-Milwaukee professor and students..."the better mousetrap"...good reading.

Made in Milwaukee:

Einsteins birthday is PI Day as well...co-incidence? hmmmmm!

Fascinating Facts About Pi Day & Birthday Boy Albert Einstein To celebrate Albert Einstein's birthday on March 14, which also happens to be Pi Day, we're taking a look at some fascinating facts about one of science's most intriguing geniuses and one of mathematics' most intriguing numbers.

PI Day Monday...celebrate Geek Club!

Pi Day Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14) around the world. Pi (Greek letter “π”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — which is approximately 3.14159. Pi has been calculated to over one trillion digits beyond its dec…

This picture made the front of Wauwatosa NOW this past Thursday! Thanks for supporting the students.

http://www.mycommunitynow.com/supergallery/?id=371805982&ddd=y&item=229553621 #

Now photos of the week: March 11 Wauwatosa West junior Simon Ng works on his team's machine during the 2016 Wisconsin High School Regional Rube Goldberg Machine Contest at Waukesha County Technical College on Friday, March. 4. High School teams from around the region competed to build a complex machine which opens a umbrella in 20…

ANDY Langer talking about using a Corvair engine in the Pietenpol airplane he is building.

When things are in design...test runs, quality, reliability

Wauwatosa PLTW 2015 - Test machine I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor)

Andy Langer talking about building his own Pietenpol airplane to the Wauwatosa East Aerospace engineering class. Top speed 99 mph and originally built in 1928 by Benard Pietenpol.

Forgot to put up Mentor Mike Lisser's, Ryan's dad Rube up last year.

Wauwatosa West Rube Goldberg Machine 2015 3/6/2015 Encore Run

More! We were the only team to use a small umbrella for the competition! Thanks again Mary!

WCTC Rube Goldberg Tosa West Entry 3-4-16 A day in the office ends with an open umbrella in a martini glass!

Enjou and thank you Mary Blomfeldt, Andrew's mom!

Rube Goldberg prep at Tosa West 3-3-16 The (late) night before the competition!

The First Second and Third place winners from yesterday's competition!

1st Place Winners - Pius XI Catholic High School

Thank you Kate Eggenberger, former Club Mentor for bringing in pizza and cookies Monday to give the team sustenance to complete the Rube Goldberg task.

Matt Miller and Mitchell Merz at the PLTW Club meeting two days before the Rube Goldberg Contest. Both Matt and Mitchell are students at UW-Milwaukee. Mitchell is in the Mechnical Engineering program and Matt is currently taking core courses thinking about architecture school. Both students were members of the club for the first three years. Thanks for stopping by!

We won the Best Construction award sponsored by Milwaukee Area Technical College.

Run 5 was perfect and six had a problem with the mousetrap...1 push.

An IGUS slide on our machine...Thank IGUS!

This years task was to open an umbrella...we were the only team to use a drink umbrella.

JANESVILLE Craig High School James Bond Rube Goldberg...our was coller two years ago!

WAUPACA High School

KIMBERLY High School team #2

KIMBERLY high School team #1

Bent9n High School

WAUNAKEE High School

Berlin High School

Southwesyern High School

Milwaukee Lutheran High School