Start your engines!

What’s with the rocket?

Did you know Evelyn is a rocket scientist? She holds degrees in aerospace engineering from MIT and UCLA. During her freshman and sophomore years at MIT, she worked on the Space Shuttle Main Engines! She provided hot-fire hardware predictions, hardware performance analysis support, and operations support for Space Shuttle Discovery STS-124 Launch to assess the overall health of the engine.

Can you find Evelyn in the picture above?

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Start your engines!

Follow the instructions below to build a simple circuit and make your engines light up.

 
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Place your LED

 
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Place your copper tape

 
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Blast off!

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Identify the LED’s positive (+) and negative (-) leads

 
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Place your 3V coin battery

 
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Make a plan for your copper tape

 
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Fold the paper over. Clip the battery in place.

 

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