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CHATHAM MARCONI MARITIME CENTER
EDUCATION EDITION
-- JUNE 2012  

 CMMC STEM Summer Opportunity
week of July 16-20, 2012
ELECTRIFYING GAMES for grades 6-8  
Karen Manning instructor for the Electrifying Games.
Karen at Gateway Program MOS

Karen Manning, above at the Gateway Workshop at the Museum of Science, earned her Bachelor and Master's degrees in education. In fifteen years as a science educator in public schools, Karen also has experience as a curriculum coordinator, executive education program director and recently attended a Gateway Workshop sponsored by  Museum of Science in in Boston and focusing on STEM education.

Karen selected the STEM activities by Design Squad an exciting engineering design program on PBS.
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Marconi Used Antenna Kites
Marconi at St. Johns Newfoundland using antenna kites.
Photograph of Marconi and associates raising the receiving antenna by kite at St. John's, Newfoundland in December, 1901. Appeared in the article "Marconi's Achievement" in the February, 1902 issue of McClure's Magazine.
Greetings!

 

CMMC is pleased to announce our first summer offering for kids! We have planned a 1-week, one-half day summer STEM course during the week of July 16 - 20. The title of the course is "Electrifying Games." There will be a session in the morning (9 - 12) and a second identical session in the afternoon (1 - 4). The sessions will be held at the Middle/High School in Chatham. You can sign your child up for either one. The activities are for children going in to 6, 7 or 8th grades in September. The course is based on the hands-on engineering challenges first shown on the Emmy and Peabody-award winning PBS series, Design Squad�.

 

The program will be led by Karen Manning. Karen currently works as a 7/8 grade science teacher in Chatham.

 

A more complete program description and registration information is linked as a PDF with this Marconigram. You can also go to our website (www.chathammarconi.org) and download the forms.

 

We are excited about this wonderful opportunity to engage our children during the summer. We hope you'll be able to take advantage of it. Space is limited so be sure to sign up early.   

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 Charles Bartlett, President, CMMC

 

Students design Marconi Kites to hold copper antenna wires which helped Marconi to receiving messages.

harwich grade 5 kites

 

Beginning in October 2011 and continuing to the end of the academic year, teachers from Harwich and Chatham have been writing and piloting lessons grades 1-12 in Communications, Engineering and Design. This photo, taken in May 2012, shows Sally Rutledge's fifth grade class in Harwich Middle School displaying kites they designed to carry a copper antenna and provide better wireless reception. This is how Marconi used kites to carry antenna's in sending wireless ship to shore radio messages. Even today ham radio operators use kites for the same purpose.