{"id":1695,"date":"2015-12-07T14:19:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T22:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2015-12-07T14:19:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T22:19:20","slug":"2016-middle-school-challenge-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/2015\/12\/07\/2016-middle-school-challenge-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Middle School Challenge Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone thinking about the upcoming Middle School Challenge? We&#8217;re excited for it and our Mechanical Engineering team\u00a0have a video to share to get students thinking about the challenges of modeling earthquakes.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to have students check out the video below before leaving for Winter Break!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Da8zhMt5pPc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This team has also provided us with gifs of their designs. Click the images below to see more!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gfycat.com\/HiddenAcclaimedBorer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1696 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/files\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-07-at-2.06.43-PM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gfycat.com\/SickScentedBonobo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1697 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/files\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-07-at-2.07.10-PM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As students begin preparing for the Challenge, consider what makes an earthquake model realistic? How could you make a shake table? Check out the videos below to see\u00a0other\u00a0middle school shake table activities:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ASVrrFGu24g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NUzkh_2hS24?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Does this realistically model an earthquake? What are some problems with it? How could it be more accurate? Check out these videos below for industrial shake tables:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kzVvd4Dk6sw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hSwjkG3nv1c?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone thinking about the upcoming Middle School Challenge? We&#8217;re excited for it and our Mechanical Engineering team\u00a0have a video to share to get students thinking about the challenges of modeling earthquakes. Be sure to have students check out the video below before leaving for Winter Break! This team has also provided us with gifs of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6864,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[921],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3QfXa-rl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6864"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/1702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}