Milwaukee area students create solutions for zoo train<\/div><\/div>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a real-world challenge with difficulties that require real-world solutions,\u201d said Christine Beimborn, 51ÁÔÆæ\u2019s STEM outreach specialist and a coordinator for the event. \u201cThere\u2019s no one right answer. It needs several solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n
This year, students offered up solutions to a broad range of problems, like reducing coal waste by sifting the coal, creating safer conditions for workers who fill the trains by installing hydraulic lifts or storing the coal more efficiently by adding waterproof roofs.<\/p>\n
Students received written and oral feedback from 51ÁÔÆæ engineering students, zoo officials and other students based on how well their designs addressed these key concerns.<\/p>\n
Peter Reynolds from Learn Deep Milwaukee sees a need for each idea, as this event is only the midpoint in the planning process. To him, it is a chance for cooperation among schools. Students can see other students\u2019 designs, ask questions and incorporate different ideas into their own final projects, which they will share in the spring of 2020, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not a competition. It\u2019s a \u2018co-opetition,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
A welcome challenge<\/h3>\n
New Berlin Eisenhower students decided to tackle several problems for their second year on the project.<\/p>\n
In their presentation, the group of juniors and seniors drew up a shed-like structure for storing coal, as well as included designs for an auger to move the coal into a hydraulic cart that would lift the coal into the train.<\/p>\n
For seniors Melissa Erman and Peter Rogalinski, who participated on last year\u2019s project to rebuild the zoo\u2019s water tower, this year\u2019s challenge tested them.<\/p>\n
They explain that with this open-ended project, they could focus on any number of problems to fix, which makes it more difficult to think of a solution that would encompass multiple issues. But for a team like theirs with their hearts set on studying engineering, it is a welcome challenge.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is so much more of a real-life application that it really immerses you into what the career will most likely be like,\u201d Erman said.<\/p>\n
Next steps<\/h3>\n
Participating groups ranged in age from Golda Meir Middle School to high school students from New Berlin Eisenhower and New Berlin West, the Elmbrook LAUNCH Program, West Allis, Pathways, St. Thomas More, Wauwatosa East, Menomonee Falls and St. Joan Antida.<\/p>\n
51ÁÔÆæ is one of five higher education partners. Other partners include Marquette University, Milwaukee Area Technical College, the Milwaukee School of Engineering and Waukesha County Technical College.<\/p>\n
The zoo will settle on a design, or elements from several designs, when the schools reconvene to present their final models in the spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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