Recycled Materials for STEM Projects
Posted August 22, 2022
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
