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MikeAllanHeim
Employee
3 years ago

Learn About HughesNet’s Partnership with 4-H – Plus a Fun Family Activity for Making Solar S’mores

Solar smores

 

 

 

 

Want a fun and educational summer activity for your children of all ages? We have the perfect one, brought to you by HughesNet and 4-H, America’s largest youth development organization. Click here to learn how to (safely) cook a delicious summer s’more using only the sun’s energy and a cardboard box. Be sure to share your s’more creations in the replies below!

 

Recognizing the critical role STEM plays in driving innovation, HughesNet aims to inspire and educate the next generation of STEM students and leaders. Over the last eight years, HughesNet has supported numerous 4-H STEM events, scholarships, and contests. This includes working with 4-H to conceptualize, help develop, and sponsor 4-H STEM Lab, a free platform of interactive STEM-focused activities for young people, available to anyone with Internet access. Making Solar Oven S’mores is just one of the many activities available through this online educational resource. We hope you check it out, and we’ll be sharing more activities with you throughout the year. 

 

4-H STEM Lab

--Mike

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  • Amanda's avatar
    Amanda
    Moderator
    3 years ago

    Talk about slow cookin' am I right?

     

    Jokes aside, I'd absolutely do this if I weren't afraid my neighborhood squirrels would make off with my s'mores. They're the brave kind that will snatch something right out of your hand. 

    • MarkJFine's avatar
      MarkJFine
      Professor
      3 years ago

      Squirrel, rabbit, deer, fox, bear, or coyote. Take your pick, and those are just the mammals. The ants are just horrendous this year.

      • GabeU's avatar
        GabeU
        Distinguished Professor IV
        3 years ago
        MarkJFine wrote:

        The ants are just horrendous this year.

        No kidding!  So far I've had to get rid of two nests down in the cracks of the concrete of my old porch, and for about the last two months I've been finding them in my house.  Not a lot in the house, thankfully, but enough that it's a bit annoying.  

         

        One of our biggest problems here is brown marmorated stink bugs.  I couldn't figure out how they were getting in last fall until I took my window AC out for the winter.  They were nesting inside of it.  Literally hundreds up in the control and wiring spaces.  They still get in, but at least now not as much and not from the AC.  Thankfully they're harmless, at least to people, so I just pick them up and put them outside.

         

        At least the Asian Lady Beetles have calmed down.  Those things bite!  

      • Liz's avatar
        Liz
        Moderator
        3 years ago

        Oh. My. Goodness, I've been in a heated battle with ants lately. Can I refashion the solar oven into a death ray for ants?

         

        -Liz

  • maratsade's avatar
    maratsade
    Distinguished Professor IV
    3 years ago

    I can't eat s'mores, sadly, but that looks fun! I hope folks will post pictures. 

    • GabeU's avatar
      GabeU
      Distinguished Professor IV
      3 years ago

      I can't remember the last time I had s'mores.  Probably more than 30 years ago.  Then again, I haven't been camping since I was a kid, and I'm not much of a backyard fire pit person.