Be a hardware sponsor and have Design & Technologies / Engineering students build your pinball machine from our kits at zero cost. Also ideal for self-funded schools, technical colleges, universities and the maker community.
Making - Learning - Fun
Learning is Fun when you're Making Something
KITS & Teacher/Student Materials
Pinball Machine
DIY Construction Project
Build a Pinball Machine Project
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16 subassembly Kits + 1 plywood cabinet
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Precision laser-cut plywood and acrylic parts
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Australian designed and manufactured
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5 Making Activities (Units) Types-
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Wood gluing, 3D modelling & 3D printing
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Electronics - PCB soldering
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Electro-Mech - wiring and mechanics
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Coding - Arduino UNO (move, sense, sound)
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Artwork - Graphic Art & Sound FX Design
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Teaching students in
Design & Technologies
with the Pinball Project
All D&T materials have been prepared and are Included:
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The pinball machine construction project has been mapped to the Australian Curriculum (Design & Tech Yr 9/10)
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Teaching - Lesson Plans, knowledge and skills construction videos
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Learning - Workbook & Portfolio Tasks
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Assessment - Marking Keys for completed Kits, Workbooks and Portfolios
Suggested Scope and Sequencing
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2 x 10-week Terms
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Each Kit has 5 Activity Units (1 per week)
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5 groups (3-4 students per group)
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5 Kits built at same time
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5 groups build 5 Kits every 5 weeks
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15-20 students per pinball project
OUR WORK
Our project kits, free Design and Technologies (D&T) courseware (and external course provider if required) fast-track teachers' implementation and students' skills and knowledge, enabling them to construct pinball machine subassemblies within collaborative teams of 15-20 makers per project. Year 9/10 D&T students can build the pinball project over two 10 week Terms.
ABOUT US
Engineering Project Kits (EPK) designs and manufactures in Australia, Design and Technologies (D&T) curriculum mapped STEM projects for high school (year 9-12) students. The project kits can also benefit technical colleges, university engineering undergraduate students and the DIY maker community. EPK projects champion the engineering discipline to be a more collaborative, social, creative, fun and inclusive learning environment for young men and women. Our aim is to serve the public, private, home and special needs school student and maker communities. To make learning engineering more engaging, students build something very cool, a life-size table-top version of a physical retro game - the pinball machine.
EPK's project kits enables learn-by-doing with hands-on practical skills in soldering electronics components onto PCBs, wiring, microcontroller (Arduino) coding, 3D modelling and 3D printing, graphic and sonic artwork, assembling wood, plastic and mechanical assemblies. All kits come with free and easy to implement teachers' courseware that has been Australian curriculum mapped to D&T year 9/10. The courseware covers: Teaching - online access to detailed construction video tutorials and Lesson Plans, Learning - Workbooks and Portfolio documents (across five activity Units) for students to complete, and Assessment - Marking Keys for the five Unit's Workbooks and Portfolios.
In addition to the kits and online video tutorials, EPK has partnered with a STEM education provider that supports schools to run the Pinball Machine Construction Course. This support will be in terms of maker tools and equipment, experience co-running the course, and STEM education expertise, providing schools an additional teacher's assistant resource.
For high schools that don't have the budget to pay for the pinball machine hardware kits, the EPK website now has a way for sponsors to connect with schools and vice-versa. The way it works is a Sponsor pays for and owns the pinball machine project kit hardware, the school gets to use that hardware for free as a Design and Technologies or Engineering build project, and Sponsors in turn get the pinball machine built for them for free. It's a Win-Win for Sponsors and Schools.
Sponsors could be Technical Colleges, Universities (wanting to increase student enrolments), Corporate / Industry organisations or the general public wanting to help students receive this vital education, whilst getting a fully assembled pinball machine as a reward for their efforts!
There is also a Crowd Funding widget enabled for schools to raise funds themselves, for example, in a lottery style campaign to members of their community; whereby the lottery winner receives the completed pinball machine, and the students get to use the hardware for the D&T course.
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