Inventing with LittleBits – $2,152

Curricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Whitson Elementary School, Wally & Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate School, Henkle Middle School
Items Purchased: Workshop Sets of littleBits

Using littleBits, students prototype and build endless engineered inventions, exercising their logical and critical thinking skills while learning about electronics. Students develop and use models to understand the work of engineers as well as the link between engineering and science. Students are taught the principles of energy, electronics, circuits and conservation of energy as they design and engineer inventions with littleBits.