Skype Challenge

Monsanto Armadillo Challenge: An interactive exercise in Inquiry Problem Solving using STEM and Agriculture. We brought our 3rd grade creative minds to help with other students around the USA in completing an interactive exercise in inquiry problem solving. On the Northeast coast of South America, a creature is lurking in the sugarcane and corn fields. This creature is causing all types of havoc for farmers and agronomists- but what could it be? We learned how engineers and scientists work together to solve some of the most complicated challenges in agriculture. Plus, we got to be a part of the process by using our engineering skills to help solve the armadillo problem in South America. 

Author Visit: 

Candace Fleming is the award-winning author of countless fiction and non-fiction titles. These include picture books, early chapter books, middle grade novels, short stories and biographies. Her picture book Papa’s Mechanical Fish is an inspiring fictional account based on events in the life of inventor Lodner Phillips as told from the perspective of his daughter, Virena Lodner Phillips was a creator of one of the first modern submarines.