The Rubber Band Project

projects

Take a deeper look into the different projects we have done with student groups

Go to Paper Rocket Launch

Professional Development, Workshops, and exhibits,.

The rubber band project aims to promote inquiry based educational experiences for K-12 students. Curriculum is focused on project based, design process focused learning that stretches thinking while bundling multiple subject areas together.

We can facilitate one time or ongoing; Student Projects, Workshops, Professional Development for teachers

Our Team

The Rubber Band Project staff

Steve Gross

Owner and Founder

Steve holds teaching certificates in both Iowa and New York. For the past decade he has consulted with hundreds of school districts world wide on instructional technology.

Kelly Gross

Owner and Founder

Dr. Gross is an assistant professor at Illinois State University and faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Art MAT program.

I really enjoyed STEAM Club. My favorite things were the toothpick bridge and filming a stop action movie. I learned a lot!

2nd grade 8 year old student who attended one of our sessions

The activities and lessons planned were creative, engaging and clearly helped to foster a love of science and technology in my daughter. She loves her time at STEAM Club!

Parent of student who attend one of our sessions

I liked STEAM club because we were able to do fun Science activities that we normally don’t get to do at school.

11 year old 5th grade student who attended one of our sessions

As I researched the idea to help my son build his project, I realized that this project was normally at at least a high school level endeavor! So impressed! ( student was in 2nd grade at the time)

Parent of student who attend one of our sessions

I am so excited to see so many cool projects coming out of our elementary schools! ( After being introduced to a program run by Rubber Band Project staff.)

Eric Slaughter, Google & Cloud Apps Administrator Department of Technology Community Unit School District 200

I just want to extend my thank you for this amazing club! My son, has loved attending and his project is so cool. I’m a teacher in the district and the value of STEM and STEAM is invaluable! Thank you for inspiring the children beyond measure!

STEAM club parent 2017-2018 session

projects

Paper Rocket Launch

Arduino LED sculpture

Open Source Interactive Sculptures

Alternative Energy

Cardboard Automata

Student Created Game

LED Cards

Interactive Sculptures

Simple Machines and Catapults

Cantigny Catapult Contest

Tesselations

Coding

Beginning Circuitry

stop motion

Toothpick Bridges

float

Hour of Code

Publications

Professional Development, Workshops, and exhibits,.

Our Team

Steve Gross

Kelly Gross