

NBMS STEM Family Challenge #4
Due by 5/30/2025
Is Your Family Up for the Challenge?
NBMS "Quarterly" Family STEM Challenge!
NBMS families,
How would you like to participate in quarterly STEM activities with your children at home? Our third NBMS Family STEM Challenge is:
Build a Helping Hand
Here are some of the materials you can use
- brass fasteners
- corrugated cardboard (corrugated cardboard has grooves in the middle, like a cardboard shipping box)
- hole punch (optional)
- objects to pick up with your device (for example, tennis balls, cotton balls, paper cups)
- 2–6 paint stirrers (found at paint supply or hardware stores)
- 2 paper cups
- rubber bands
- ruler
- sandpaper (optional)
- scissors
- string
- tape (duct or masking)
- wooden skewers or dowels
*Due by the End of the Grading Period - May 30, 2025
*Bring your families project to the media center to be displayed for all to see.
Participants Receive:
- Certificate of Participation for each quarterly submission.
- If your family participates in and submits a finished product for 3 of 4 challenges this year, you will receive an authentic NASA Patch!
- All submissions must have the following document submitted with the project.
Good Luck on Your Fourth Challenge!
New Bridge Magnet Middle School
401 New Bridge Street
Jacksonville, NC 28540
Email: Michelle.padgett@onslow.k12.nc.us
Website: https://nbms.onslow.k12.nc.us/
Location: 401 New Bridge Street, Jacksonville, NC, USA
Phone: (910)346-5144
Facebook: facebook.com/NewBridgeMiddleSchool
Michelle Padgett
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