Heir Force students get hands-on engineering experience at Ohio Northern

Heir Force students get hands-on engineering experience at Ohio Northern

Heir Force Community School students are putting their STEM lessons into practice through hands-on engineering activities.

ADA, Ohio (WLIO) — Heir Force Community School students are putting their STEM lessons into practice through hands-on engineering activities.

Twenty students in grades six through eight visited Ohio Northern University’s College of Engineering Thursday to take part in experiments testing heat transfer and the strength of different materials.

Students built walls using various materials to see how quickly heat traveled through them. They also tested how much weight different materials could support.

The activities gave students a chance to apply engineering concepts outside the classroom.

“We did a thermal transfer where we had to basically build a wall out of materials and see how long it would take for heat to travel through that wall. ... It’s a lot more fun than sitting in the classroom,” said Kaida Johnson, an eighth grader at Heir Force Community School.

“It’s because you actually get to do it, and you actually get to experience something that you haven’t done. Like, I haven’t held a ...