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PIP Events, Grades 7 through 12
 Green Projects |
Acton PIP supports green initiatives including Earth Day and the GreenActon team. Earth Day is a community-wide spring event that focuses on conservation. Find out what your family can do to help conserve and protect our precious water and natural resources. Appropriate for all ages. The GreenActon team is a volunteer organization encouraging sustainable townwide initiatives. See the Green Projects page for information on Earth Day and the GreenActon team. |
 Solar Projects |
PIP joins the Acton Solar Panel Project in encouraging alternative energy education and environmental awareness among young people. In collaboration with the Acton Public Schools and the Acton-Boxborough School System, PIP is working on educational initiatives for students to learn more about the town's solar panel, data collection and energy consumption. Appropriate for all grades. See the Solar Projects page for details and links to the solar data. |
 STEM Discovery |
Every few years PIP sponsors a STEM Discovery Fest and a series of Engineering Workshops. The STEM Discovery Fest, a reverse science fair, is geared for students in grades 9 through 12. Scientists and technologists from the community set up booths at the high school to share the latest technology. Previous fairs included robotics demonstrations, one laptop per child (olpc) computing, geocaching, water testing and examples of alternative energy sources.
The Engineering Workshops are led by MIT engineering students. The goal is to answer the question "What is Engineering?" for students in grades 7 - 12. The presenters give an overview of engineering disciplines, explain why engineering is a rewarding career, and share their experiences as engineering students. The workshops include a hands-on activity using engineering concepts. Although the workshops are open to girls and boys, they are sponsored in part by the MIT Women in Engineering (WIE) Initiative. See the Other PIP Events page for details. |
 Other PIP Events |
Family Domino Night is a winter community-wide event and fundraiser. Join PIP volunteers at O'Natural's Restaurant. We'll bring dominos and instructions for Domino Math games. Domino Math games are a simple, inexpensive, fun way for students from first grade through high school to practice estimation skills and number facts. Younger children
can play addition and subtraction games; advanced students can play multiplication and division games or experiment with
equations. Appropriate for all grades. |
| Every year PIP co-sponsors one or two sessions of Skid School, advanced driver training. Skid School offers hands-on techniques for mastering accident avoidance and car control while teaching students about real-world physics. Ages 16 and up. See the Other PIP Events page for details. |
PIP Resources
Many of our PIP Events have handouts and games for at-home entertainment. For Domino Night handouts and games, visit PIP Resources for links to those handouts in pdf format.
Acton PIP also lends math books and science kits and games. These library resources are available at the lending and reference sections of the Acton Public Library and the Douglas School Library.
Our website provides links to math and science games and brain teasers. Visit Web Resources for online learning and fun.