Terror Train
The Indiana Transportation Museum's Terror Train is an event in late October. The journey begins at the depot as you are guided and descend into the foggy, moonlit rail yard – old, static trains, deceased railroad workers and passengers of the past are watching you as they come across from the other side. Learn the frightening stories of different passenger trains as well as hear from those in the rail yard. Be ready for eerie, bone-chilling scenes as well as be on the receiving end of heart-pounding frights as you traverse the haunted rail yard. Interested in this frightening journey? You can purchase tickets for $20 at the door or $15 in advance here.
The students from Hamilton Southeastern Schools volunteered at this event on October 21st, 22nd, and 29th. Beware, you never know where we going to be.
The students from Hamilton Southeastern Schools volunteered at this event on October 21st, 22nd, and 29th. Beware, you never know where we going to be.
Math and Science Night
To be able to raise awareness for the robotics competition and our engineering curriculum, the staff of Thorpe Creek Elementary School allowed us to have access to their gymnasium on November 10th for an after school event called Math and Science Night. Math and Science Night is a night where we have kids solve and complete math problems and let them drive robots around a play field.
We wanted to make sure the kids had fun, so we set up a play field for them to play with the robots. We made up a game where they needed to get the most balls in their specific corner every round. In order for them to play with the robots in that round, they needed to correctly answer a math problem. Once they did, they would play with the robots and compete against their friends to get the most points!
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As the kids played with the robots, we setup a table with multiple projects and machines to show the parents what's in our engineering program and and get their interested in engineering at an early age. We explained how a pulley system works, showed what goes into a house as a model, had the kids play around with 3-D printed toys and objects that we created with a 3-D printer, and had them assemble a puzzle cube.
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