Pitsco Balsa Gliders - Getting Started Package has enough materials for a classroom of 30 students, including our Metric Glider book; the Dr. Zoon Balsa Glider Video; and a FlightPak complete with materials for designing, prototyping, building and testing gliders.

Requires a hobby knife and ruler, sold separately.

Pitsco Chutepack II contains materials for students to explore the principles governing the design and use of parachutes. Tissue paper, glue sticks, and all other necessary materials are included for 30 students. Requires scissors, sold separately. 

Pitsco Clearly Solar Car Kit is more than a build-and-run activity kit. With this solar car, you can change the solar panel angle, try out different gear combinations and switch the two solar panels from series to parallel circuit (or vice versa). These features enable students to test a variety of variables.

Pitsco Economy Rocket Pack without Engines provides enough materials to make 50 rockets, minus engines. To save you money, Pitsco eliminated the boxes and reduced the amount of reusable items. Each pack includes enough gummed tape, fin material, nose cones and other materials for 50 students to build one rocket each. Fifty Pitsco Rocket Kit Books are included as well. 

Requires a launcher, scissors, ruler, sponge, finish such as paint, and white glue, sold separately.

Pitsco Eco-Wind Generator Getting Started Package gets students thinking about energy concepts through hands-on activities. The Getting Started package has enough materials for 30 student wind generators, a WinDynamo II for teacher demonstrations or advanced student explorations, and the Eco-Wind Gen video.

Requires a fan (or wind), hobby knife, scissors and cool melt glue, sold separately.

Pitsco Flightpak Power Pack guides students through principles of flight, glider design and the construction of hand-launched balsa wood gliders that they can fly. They can even compete against each other to see which glider can stay aloft the longest. All materials necessary for students’ designing, prototyping, building, and testing are provided. Includes enough materials for 30 students.

Requires a hobby knife and ruler, sold separately.

Pitsco Foam Wing Glider Pack has everything you need to make your own gliders. Student-designed wings are cut on the Wing Cutter and then attached to balsa wood fuselages. Rear fin and horizontal stabilizer are also constructed of balsa wood. Provides enough polystyrene foam and balsa wood to make 25 gliders. Also includes glue, sandpaper, graph paper for design drawings, template material, instructions, and clay for balancing. As an added bonus, the pack includes two sheets of our Pitsco decals.

Requires a hobby knife, finish, and Wing Cutter, sold separately.

Pitsco H2O Turbine is a great warm-up activity for teaching about renewable energy, Newton’s third law, rotational energy, and other topics – even history. Put this water wheel under a stream of water to light a bulb – students can see the energy generated by hydropower. 

Water turbine kit includes laser-cut acrylic pieces, Motor 500, gears, and hardware to construct the 9-3/4" x 3-3/4" x 2-1/4" generator. Requires screwdriver, sold separately, and a flowing water supply such as an indoor or outdoor faucet. Can also be used with a voltmeter, sold separately.

Pitsco HB Bond II is a superior tacky glue. It has excellent properties for bridge and tower building and many other applications. It dries quickly for a strong, flexible bond. It is nontoxic and non-penetrating and dries clear.

Pitsco Kazoon Kite Kit has everything you need to assemble a flying tetrahedron kite that soars so easily you might have trouble getting it down. This kit comes complete with step-by-step instructions and the needed materials.

Requires scissors and a ruler, not included.

Pitsco Mini Straw Rocket Launcher can propel rockets up to 25 feet. Just put the rocket on the launch tube, pull back the air pressure plunger, and let go – it couldn't be easier. Also, includes a Launch Angle Tool that helps you turn the launch tube to the desired angle.

The Mini Straw Rocket Launcher is made of acrylic, stainless steel, plastic, and hardboard and measures 7-3/4" L x 4" W x 8" H (with launch tube up). Works with rockets made of Precision Straws or 7/32" diameter drinking straws. No assembly required.

Build and deploy parachutes with a variety of payloads and watch the excitement. This Getting Started package includes materials for 30 student parachutes and the Dr. Zoon Parachutes Video.
Requires scissors, sold separately.

Pitsco Ray Catcher Solar Panel is the official solar panel of the Junior Solar Sprint competition. It measures 267 mm x 127 mm x 3 mm (thick), and is built of lightweight, superstrong, high-impact fiberglass laminate. This panel is also weather resistant. It weighs 126 grams and has an output of 2.9 volts at 1.1 amps. Includes 8" color-coded lead wires.

Pitsco Ray Catcher Sprite Deluxe Solar Vehicle provides all the materials needed to build a complete solar car for the Junior Solar Sprint competition. The kit contains the required solar panel and electric motor plus two 10-1/2" x 4" balsa wood sheets, four nylon spacers, two alligator clips, two 5-1/2" axles, four wheels, four rubber bands, one plastic gear font, two screw eyes and instructions.

Construction requires soldering iron and solder, hobby knife, cool-melt glue gun and glue, needle-nose pliers, and a ruler - sold separately. Additional solar panels, if needed, may be purchased.

This handy molded plastic tool holds your rocket fins in place against the body tube for gluing. After the fins are attached, the Rocket Fin Holder can be turned on its side to work as a paint stand. Designed for use with the Pitsco Solid-Fuel Rocket.

This economical little book is a must-have when building a rocket. The full-color book features a short history of rockets, a materials list, rocket-building instructions, how to use the Pitsco LaunchGuard System, and the National Association of Rocketry’s safety code.

Pitsco Solar Oven is a great way to get students thinking of everyday applications for solar energy. Use this kit to demonstrate heat gain, heat loss and the second law of thermodynamics. Students can toast up s’mores, nachos and other small treats with the 13-1/4" x 10-1/2" x 6" oven.

Requires scissors or hobby knife, glue stick, and transparent tape - sold separately.

Caution: Oven might not get hot enough to safely cook products containing egg.

Pitsco Solar Vehicles Getting Started Package provides materials for 30 students to design, build and test their own solar cars, including six Ray Catcher Solar Panels that students share.

With the Pitsco Solid-Fuel Rocket Kit, students engage in a rewarding, hands-on project. They build the body tube, design and shape the rocket fins, and make the parachute recovery system. When they’re finished, they watch their rockets blast toward the stratosphere. Enough engines and igniters are included for 25 rockets to be launched twice.

Please note that rocket engines ship separately and take 3-4 weeks for delivery via USPS. Individuals needing these materials sooner can pay an additional hazard fee to have the items delivered via UPS. To ship via UPS, you must call our customer service team at 800-835-0686 and place your order.

Access the comprehensive Pitsco Rocket Kit Book for rocket building instructions, a short history of rockets, how to use the Pitsco LaunchGuard System, and much more! The Pitsco Rocket Kit Book is available for print here, or you can download a digital copy for free here.

Looking for standards-based activities to accompany these materials? The Solid-Fuel Rockets Teacher's Guide is available for print here.

Count down to fun while learning the basics of solid-fuel rocketry. This package pulls together materials for 50 student rockets, a launching system, an altitude finder, five rocket fin holders, and the Solid-Fuel Rocket video. Engines and igniters will ship USPS ground only. If your order contains additional items, they will be shipped separately via our normal carrier, ground only. Requires scissors, ruler, sponge, finish such as paint, and white glue, sold separately.
Requires scissors, ruler, sponge, finish such as paint, and white glue, sold separately.

Has your Straw Rocket Launcher’s launch tube seen better days? If so, this brass tube replaces the launch tube so you can keep flying those rockets.

Pitsco Sunezoon Cars - Getting Started Package is an easy solution to provide an entire classroom with a hands-on experience with solar energy. This Getting Started package – featuring the easy-to-assemble SunEzoon solar car – includes the Dr. Zoon SunEzoon Video and enough materials for students to build 30 solar cars.

Requires scissors and hobby knife or sandpaper, sold separately.

Pitsco Sunezoon Solar Car is an easy-to-assemble solar car that works outdoors in full sunlight or indoors under a bright incandescent light. Each kit contains instructions, solar panel with alligator clamps, motor, wheels, steel axles, gear font, chassis parts and a cut-and-fold cover. Construction requires scissors and a hobby knife or sandpaper, sold separately.

Pitsco Sunezoon Solar Car is an easy-to-assemble solar car that works outdoors in full sunlight or indoors under a bright incandescent light. Each kit contains instructions, solar panel with alligator clamps, motor, wheels, steel axles, gear font, chassis parts and a cut-and-fold cover. Construction requires scissors and a hobby knife or sandpaper, sold separately.

Pitsco Sunzoon Lite - Getting Started Package has enough materials for 30 students to build a SunZoon Lite solar car, plus it has the SunZoon Lite video.

Construction requires hobby knife, scissors, ruler, and optional hand-cutting tools and finish, sold separately.

Pitsco Sunzoon Lite Solar Car is a perfect kit for solar car beginners. Use the basswood chassis as is or use tools to shape it and then apply paint. The kit includes the chassis, a solar panel, Motor 280, gear font, front and back wheels, spacer material, adhesive tabs, and a template. No soldering required.

Construction requires hobby knife, scissors, ruler, and optional hand-cutting tools and finish, sold separately.

Pitsco Wind Energy - Getting Started Package motivates students to think about wind energy concepts through hands-on activity. The Getting Started package has enough materials for 25 student wind generators and has a WinDynamo III for teacher demonstrations or advanced student explorations.

Note: Requires a high-velocity table fan, sold separately.

Requires white glue, glue stick, scissors, screwdriver, and a fan - sold separately.

Wind energy has the potential to supply all the electricity needed in the United States. Introduce students to this renewable energy with the Wind Gen Plus Kit.

With this kit, students quickly build a windmill that catches a breeze from a fan and converts it into energy. Students see this energy when it lights a bulb attached to the motor. Or, they can wire several mills together to power larger devices such as a radio or a small motor.

Looking for standards-based activities to accompany these materials? The Wind Energy Teacher’s Guide is available for print here, or you can download a digital copy for free here.

Order 30 kits to build a class pack!

Pitsco Education Precision Test Block - Bridges is an accurate test block for use with Science Olympiad bridge competitions.

You supply the plastic bottle (20 ounce, one liter, or two liter), scissors, tape, and a cool-melt glue gun, and we supply everything else your students need to construct a water rocket. Students can design their own graphics. Use a Pitsco launch system to launch the rockets 200 feet or more!

Looking for standards-based activities to accompany these materials? The Water Rockets Teacher's Guide is available for download as a digital copy for free here.

Early Coding

Learn to program robots

Robotics and coding for kindergarten and elementary school. Designed especially for children age  5 and up, fischertechnik offers the perfect, entry-level pathway into the world of computer science and robotics. Engaging hands-on learning.

• Includes downloadable teaching and activity material (free download)
• Set includes the new FIRST CODING chassis consisting of 2 motors, 2 push-button switches, and an infrared sensor, course, and battery compartment for 3 AAA batteries (batteries not included)

To eLearning

Top Facts:

• Set for entry into the world of computer science and robotics
• Two motors and sensors already integrated
• Simple graphical programming environment with ready-made examples
• Learning to program with simple robot models

The Roland CAMM-1 GS-24 desktop vinyl cutter is precision and efficiency – to the max. Equipped with a completely redesigned cutting and blade holder, the GS-24 offers greater stability and a 39.5 percent increase in downforce (from 250g to 350g). Translation: you can cut like never before – even on thick, dense substrates. Vehicle graphics, signs and decals, decorated apparel, specialty graphics, and more. With cutting-edge capabilities and unmatched reliability, backed by a Three-Year Trouble-Free Warranty, the GS-24 is Roland's best desktop vinyl cutter ever.

The Simple Super Structure Basic Framing Kit is an excellent addition to a TileRunner drive system, or to create simple, rigid and robust structures. Comprised of a larger quantity of different lengths of our custom aluminum S3 Tubing, S3 Gussets and 6-32 hardware as compared to our Expansion Framing Kit, this kit is a great bundle of parts for creating many structures for FIRST Tech Challenge robots.

Individual Components that make up this Kit:

• 200 - 6-32 Nylock Nut (am-1419)
• 200 - 6-32 x 1 in. HHCS, Steel Zinc Finish (am-1426)
• 25 - 6-32 x 0.375 in. HHCS, Steel Zinc Finish (am-1439)
• 8 - 128 mm Long S3 Tubing (am-3594-128)
• 8 - 256 mm Long S3 Tubing (am-3594-256)
• 8 - 336 mm Long S3 Tubing (am-3594-336)
• 8 - 448 mm Long S3 Tubing (am-3594-448)
• 18 - S3, Tee Gusset (am-3598)
• 6- S3, Quad Gusset (am-3599)
• 6 - S3, Connector Gusset (am-3601)
• 18 - S3, 90 Degree Gusset (am-3602)
• 6 - S3, Variable Degree Gusset (am-3603)
• 14 - S3, Corner Gusset (am-3606)
• 8 - 5/16 in. Hex Female-Female Standoff, 16 mm (am-3685-16)
• 8 - 5/16 in. Hex Female-Female Standoff, 32 mm (am-3685-32)
• 8 - 5/16" Hex Female-Female Standoff, 64mm Long (am-3685-64)

The Simple Super Structure Mega Framing Kit is our largest bundle of S3 Structural components. It makes an excellent addition to a TileRunner drive system, or to create simple, rigid and robust structures. Comprised of a much larger quantity of different lengths of our custom aluminum S3 Tubing, S3 Gussets and 6-32 hardware as compared to our Expansion Framing Kit and our Basic Framing Kit, this kit is a great bundle of parts for creating many structures for FIRST Tech Challenge robots.

Individual Components that make up this Kit:

• 500 - 6-32 Nylock Nut (am-1419)
• 500 - 6-32 x 1 in. HHCS, Steel Zinc Finish (am-1426)
• 50 - 6-32 x 0.375 in. HHCS, Steel Zinc Finish (am-1439)
• 16 - 128 mm Long S3 Tubing (am-3594-128)
• 16 - 256 mm Long S3 Tubing (am-3594-256)
• 16 - 336 mm Long S3 Tubing (am-3594-336)
• 16 - 448 mm Long S3 Tubing (am-3594-448)
• 32 - S3, Tee Gusset (am-3598)
• 18- S3, Quad Gusset (am-3599)
• 12 - S3, Connector Gusset (am-3601)
• 32 - S3, 90 Degree Gusset (am-3602)
• 12 - S3, Variable Degree Gusset (am-3603)
• 28 - S3, Corner Gusset (am-3606)
• 16 - 5/16 in. Hex Female-Female Standoff, 16 mm (am-3685-16)
• 16 - 5/16 in. Hex Female-Female Standoff, 32 mm (am-3685-32)
• 16 - 5/16" Hex Female-Female Standoff, 64mm Long (am-3685-64)

As the name implies, the Stalwart is an imposing and strong rocket. It races upward at incredible speed and can dominate the air again and again thanks to the parachute recovery system. Kit includes everything needed for construction – a 20-ounce plastic bottle, a 12" parachute, tubes, rings, a nose cone, fin material, decals, and instructions. Pitsco HD Bond II glue recommended for assembly. Finished rocket is 63 centimeters in length. Requires scissors, ruler, clothespin, masking and transparent tape, white and cool-melt glue, paint, permanent marker, and launcher, sold separately.

Students can build their own straw rockets and test them on the Straw Rocket Launcher. Just like early rocket pioneer Robert Goddard, they can conduct scientific experiments by varying the trajectory angle and launch energy. These rockets can travel up to 50 feet!

This pack includes enough Precision Straws, clay, and fin material for 30 students to make four rockets each, which enables them to experiment with different weights, straw lengths, and fin designs.

Pack includes student instructions. Requires launcher, scissors, ruler, and transparent tape, sold separately.
 

Building and experimenting with these simple rockets is the perfect way to introduce students to rocketry. And they’ll learn a bevy of physics principles in the process!

Looking for standards-based activities to accompany these materials? The Straw Rockets Teacher’s Guide is available for print here, or you can download a digital copy for free here.

In need of fun activities for elementary-aged students? Check out our Straw Rocket Elementary STEM Activity Guide, available for print and free digital download.

Pitsco Education Straw Structures - Getting Started Package provides materials for up to 30 students. Structures start taking shape with this Getting Started package. Students explore structures and geometric shapes with instruction from Dr. Zoon and the Polyhedra Poster.

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This set includes everything you need for students to start building remote-controlled and autonomous-controlled robots with the TETRIX PRIME system.

Includes:

• TETRIX PULSE Robotics Controller with USB cable
• Grove Line Finder and Ultrasonic Sensors
• Gamepad-style, four-channel wireless controller for easy operation of the motors and servos
• 290+ Tetrix Prime; aluminum and plastic pieces including structural elements, connectors, hubs, brackets, wheels, and gears plus a Gripper Kit
• Rechargeable battery pack and charger
• 2 standard servos, 2 continuous rotation servos, and 2 six-volt DC motors
• On/off switch
• 4-in-1 screwdriver, 2-in-1 screwdriver, and hex nut driver
• Sturdy storage bin
• Balls and cups for robot course
• Detailed and graphic programming and builder’s guide

Expand the horizons of your TETRIX PRIME R/C Starter Set. Engineer bigger, more advanced robots, increase the robustness of builds, and combine all the Tetrix Prime; components using the additional parts and pieces included in the Tetrix Prime; Expansion Set.

The Tetrix Prime; Expansion Set comes with three major parts that will provide students more design options for their robots:

• Aluminum linkages – Mechanical linkages connect to manage force and movement.
• Aluminum plates – Create custom gearboxes, strengthen connections, or create new ways to connect and combine all the Tetrix Prime; components.
• Aluminum gussets – Use to connect beams or structural components as well as provide additional strength to joints.
• Tetrix Prime; parts and pieces are made from aluminum and plastic.

The TETRIX PRIME Getting Started Package offers the ultimate robotics experience. Teams of two work to design fully functioning, remote-controlled robots, with each student pair having access to both a Tetrix Prime; R/C Starter Set and a Tetrix Prime; Expansion Set. The included Instructional Build DVD for Tetrix Prime; Robotics and Engineering Design Loop Poster Set provide an added bonus to the builder’s guides.

The Getting Started Package includes:

• 12 Tetrix Prime; R/C Starter Sets each containing:
  • 298 building elements plus Gripper Kit
  • Gamepad-style, four-channel wireless controller
  • 4 servo motors (2 standard and 2 continuous rotation)
  • Rechargeable battery pack and charger
  • On/off switch and assembly tools
  • Printed setup and builder’s guides along with activity accessories
• 12 Tetrix Prime; Expansion Sets each containing:
  • 539 total building elements
  • 1 standard servo motor
  • Assembly tools
  • Printed builder’s guide
• Engineering Design Loop Poster Set
• Instructional Build DVD for Tetrix Prime; Robotics

This set includes what you need for students to start building programmable robots with the TETRIX PULSE Robotics Controller.

Includes:

• TETRIX PULSE Robotics Controller with USB cable
• Grove Line Finder and Ultrasonic Sensors
• 290+ Tetrix Prime; aluminum and plastic pieces including structural elements, connectors, hubs, brackets, wheels, and gears plus a Gripper Kit
• Rechargeable battery pack and charger
• 2 standard servos and 2 six-volt DC motors
• 4-in-1 screwdriver, 2-in-1 screwdriver, and hex nut driver
• Sturdy storage bin
• Balls and cups for robot course
• Detailed and graphic programming guide

Pitsco Education Timber Cutter is a helpful tool for cutting 1/8" wooden sticks. Recommended for bridge and tower building as well as other model projects. The see-through safety guard limits finger access to the blade.

A single-edged razor blade provides a clean, accurate cut. Miter marks are molded into the base to use as a reference when making angle cuts. Five extra blades are included. Additional replacement blades sold separately.