As I’ve shared in the past, Instructables is one of my favorite places to find inspiration for fun and hands-on STEM projects. On Instructables, you’ll find instructions for all sorts of nifty projects, including automatic plant watering systems, alarms, and automated LED lighting systems, and more Arduino and Micro:bit projects than you can imagine.
This spring Instructables is up and running four contests that you and your students can enter. One of those contests is called the big and small contest. The contest asks participants to design something big or small, put it together, and share instructions for making it. You can take something that is normally small and make it big or take something that is normally big and make it small. The registration deadline is May 8. The top prize is a $500 Amazon gift card.
Whether you enter the contest or not, the concept of the big and small contest it’s fun that you can use in your makerspace or similar environment.
