Recycled Materials for STEM Projects

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It’s that time of year again – Our Design and Modeling students will complete a design challenge at the beginning of the semester using repurposed and recycled materials. If you are in the market to de-clutter please bring your donations down to the school and mark them STEM.

Examples of materials we always need:

• cardboard boxes**
• 2-liter size plastic bottles
• foam board, foam padding
• foam in general,]
• bubble wrap
• batting
• velcro
• elastic
• duct tape
• cotton balls
• twine
• rope
• paper clips
• fabric pieces
• fasteners or buckles
• sheet plastic
• packing paper
• old electronics or computer parts. 
• (**Note on boxes… please remove or black out personal information on any package labels. Thank you in advance for this!) 

The following items are less useful: 

• small boxes
• plastic bottles smaller than 2-liters (ie. water bottles, sports drinks, etc.)
• cans, anything with sharp or pointy edges
• safety pins
• anything glass or ceramic
• plastic bags
• very small scraps of fabric
• packing peanuts
• plastic air pocket packing (think amazon packing)
• egg cartons
• shoe liners
• liquids
• arousals
• paint
• newspaper or magazines
• food or hygiene containers
• old batteries
• glitter(!)
• or anything sticky that should not be sticky