This was a group based project sponsored by the University of Minnesota’s Mechanical Engineering Ambassadors Program, a branch of the broader Engineering Ambassadors Network. This association conducts many engineering outreach programs to help kids in under privileged communities access fun engineering education.

The ME Ambassadors had tasked our class with creating STEM kits that they would use for their summer outreach programs. These STEM kits were to be intended to teach kids important lessons and skills that may be able to help them create their own hydroponics system, though it was also encouraged to try other lessons as well. Hydroponics being the growth of plants without the use of soil, instead their roots sit in nutrient dense water that provides the plant everything it needs to grow.