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Science City at Home

Glidebot

We’re creating climbing robots. Here’s a chance to watch a robot glide and come up with all kinds of predictions and theories on how and why the robot can move this way.

Supplies:

  • Markers, crayons, or colored pencils

  • Pencil

  • Scissors

  • Tape

  • Ruler

  • Drinking straw cut into 1 1/2″ pieces

  • String, fishing line, or thin yarn

  • Two pony beads in any color

  • Colored cardstock

  • Optional: Brass Fasteners