Materials

Facilitator materials

A large classroom count-down clock (e.g. on Amazon).
Large 2’ x 3’ flip chart sheets to attach to the wall as kanban boards (see below) and to write out your activity schedule (you may want to add a checkmark when you complete a step, so the teams don’t lose track of where they are).
Several rolls of 2” masking tape for name tags, attaching flip charts to the wall, creating kanban columns, etc…
A large sharpie for name tags and to write out your activity schedule.

Full set of cubesat templates on card stock (65 lbs weight works well, 80 lbs weight may be a bit too thick).
1 styrofoam square base 12” x 12” (e.g. at Michael’s, keep in plastic packaging to prevent styrofoam waste since this merely serves as a base in which to anchor the pipe cleaners).
1 paper lunch bag to contain following materials and serve as paper trash bag for recyclables.
3 pairs of safety scissors (more may be made available for large teams).
3 tape dispenser rolls (more may be made available for large teams).
1 x-acto knife to cut out internal parts (for older groups only).
4 kabob sticks for puncturing paper in order to cut out internal parts and/or additional structural support of the frame.
A kanban board, accomplished in a number of ways:
- a white boards with three columns “todo, doing, done” (but be careful when using sharpies; note that writing tasks directly on the white board should be discouraged)
- a flip chart page taped to the wall
- a grid made with masking tape directly on the wall
Multiple stacks of post-its (3” x 6” notecard size is better than the 3” x 3” squares).
Several black and/or colored sharpies and/or white board markers.

4 pipe cleaners 12” and 4 coffee stirrer straws. These form the cubesat rails: plug the pipe cleaner into the styrofoam base board in a 4” x 4” square and slide a straw over each of the pipe cleaners. Now the individual cubesat layers can be threaded over the rails with the corner mounting holes.
Thick 1/16” cardboard, about 12” x 12”. Components with a number indicated in a circle have to be filled with that many layers of cardboard to give them the necessary volume and stability.