Cool Tools time! In Cool Tools, your guide will introduce you to the ACTUAL tools our they use in experiments and get to learn about the history behind them. Watch the latest Cool Tools campisode below!
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Learn to Invent Toys at Home with Toy Inventor & GoldieBlox CEO Debbie Sterling
Find out how Engineer and Toy Inventor, Debbie Sterling, invented a toy using common household objects to win the Toy of the Year Award. You too can invent toys from simple things around the house and she'll show you how. Debbie will even share how she created one of her first GoldieBlox toys, GoldieBlox and the Spinning Machine, by using things like thread spools, wooden dowels, velcro and more from her house!
Watch the full campisode to learn the answer for this week's question!
GoldieBlox Founder and CEO Debbie Sterling is a toy inventor, engineer, entrepreneur, spokesperson and one of the leaders in the movement toward getting girls interested in STEM.
Human Cell Images Turned into Fashion Pieces!
Molecular Biologist, Beata Mierzwa joins Curiosity Camp this week to tell us all about her amazing job and how science and fashion in fact can be combined for some DIY fun! Along with researching cells to help cure cancer, Beata is also a very talented fashion designer. Her love for science matched with her DIY skills result in some really cool projects.
Activity
Click the image above to download this week's 'Microscopy Marbling' activity!Watch the full campisode to learn the answer for this week's question!
Beata Mierzwa
Cancer researcher at UCSD and a STEM-centric fashion designer / jeweler!
AAAS If/Then Ambassador
Snagging Slithering Snakes with Sam
Conservation Biologist, Sam Wynns joins Curiosity Camp this week to tell us all about her love for snakes, protecting ecosystems from extinction (super important!) and the tools she uses to do her job. You also get to meet Sam’s very cool friend, Wilson (psst he’s a snake).
Activity
Click the image above to download this week's 'Nature Journal' activity!Watch the full campisode to learn the answer for this week's question!
Sam Wynns
Conservationist and field biologist for the National Park Service.
AAAS If/Then Ambassador
How Can Coding Save Orca Whales?
In this episode of Cool Tools, Gracie Ermi-- a Research Software Engineer at Vulcan-- takes you into the world of A.I. Gracie's job allows her to help save animals by creating coding thats used to measure the health of orcas. Amazing, right? Watch the full episode to learn more about Gracie's job and how much of a difference it makes!
Activity
Click the image above to download this week's 'Whale Tail Bookmark' activity!Watch the full campisode to learn the answer for this week's question!
Gracie Ermi
Research Software Engineer studying Orcas at Vulcan Inc.
AAAS If/Then Ambassador
Digging Up Fossils!
Welcome to campisode 1 of Cool Tools! This episode features our guide and talented Paleontologist, Myria Perez. Myria dives into her job as a paleontologist, talks about some uber cool tools she uses while on the job, and even takes you through an experiment... that may or may not involve bones and perhaps some cookies. 🍪 Enjoy!
Activity
Click the image above to download this week's 'DIY Dino DIG' activity! 🦖Watch the full campisode to learn the answer for this week's question!
Myria Perez
Prepares dinosaur fossils and ancient artifacts at the Perot Museum in Dallas.
AAAS #ifthenshecan Ambassador
