Activities for middle school students (sixth, seventh and eighth grade) include a variety of high interest, hands-on activities, illustrated below; inventor's camps in which students design and create a product; and an engineering design project entitled Construct - I Can in which students design and build structures from food cans and boxes.

Middle school students work on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) exercises at IVCC.
At left, students create a circuit simulation in an electronics lab. At right, a student creates a kaleidoscope application program in a computer lab.


Middle school students work on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) exercises at IVCC. At left, students create a circuit simulation in an electronics lab. At right, a student creates a kaleidoscope application program in a computer lab.


An IVCC instructor helps a middle school student in a computer lab.	Engineering is about teamwork! Groups of eighth graders practice walking as a team.	An eighth grade student logs a physics exercise in an IVCC lab.

Middle School Activities