
8th Grade STEAM Project
After researching the global water crisis, eighth grade students designed and built three devices for water collection and purification. One group built a solar desalination device which uses the power of the sun to evaporate fresh water from salt water. Another group built a fog harvester by combining two existing designs, the fog catcher and the fog harp. The remaining groups built gravity fed water filtration devices. To kick off the project, our students visited the Bartl