This year we continued the partnership that we started last year with the STEM summer camp at Athens Drive. Last year we thought our activity went very well, so we decided to repeat it this year.
To begin, we asked the students ‘What is biomechanics?’ They had some pretty creative answers.
We then connected our lab’s biomechanics focus to spinal muscle atrophy (one focus of the camp) by looking at scoliosis, and how variations in spinal muscle strength can affect curvature. We once again used a pool noodle to represent the spine and exercise bands as ‘muscles’.