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In this video adapted from the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center, students will learn about a robotics competition which uses remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) underwater. The material is intended for students in grades 6-12. Running time for the video is 3:32. It is accompanied by...

In this interactive activity adapted from the Wisconsin Online Resource Center, students will "use mathematics and measuring skills to solve a construction problem." They will determine how many shingles are required to reroof a house using common tools, and learn about the importance of planning...

This video, presented by WGBH, takes a look at what it is like to be a research assistant in a university setting working on a nanoparticle project. The video showcases the kind of independent and collaborative work that goes on in a laboratory setting as a research assistant. Viewers will also find...

This resource, provided by the Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), is an animation that shows how radio frequency (RF) energy creates the desired conditions for initializing a plasma. An .mp4 file is also available for viewing and runs 00:30 minutes in length. 

This video runs 7:12 minutes in length and features employees from two of Maryland's STAR manufacturing companies, Marlin Steel Wire Products and the Lion Brothers Company. These employees discuss the present and future for Next Generation Manufacturing.

This best practices guide from FLATE, the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence, is directed at those educators or STEM professionals "interested in learning how to maximize your success for creating and running a middle school summer camp about robotics—with the least amount...

This resource is a documentary film about the history of the cordage industry from ancient technologies through the industrial revolution, trustbusting, and globalization. The one-hour DVD, Ropewalk: A Cordage Engineer's Journey Through History, is free for schools, libraries, museums. Produced by...

This resource is provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC) and is an animation that shows a rotary piston pump operation. An .mp4 file is also available for viewing and runs 00:32 seconds in length. 

This resource, provided by the Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), is an animation of a rotary vane pump. Rotary vane pumps are "positive-displacement pumps" that consist of "vanes mounted to a rotor that rotates inside of a cavity." An .mp4 is also available for viewing and runs...

This brief interactive activity, by Electromechanical Digital Library and Wisconsin Technical College System faculty members Joseph Wetzel and Jeff Sonnleitner, provides a lesson on logical addresses in order to teach the significance of the physical address or identifying system found on every...