Technokat Educational Programs employ a multi-tiered approach that facilitates the acquisition of scientific principles through ‘hands-on’ activities focused on technological concepts with the goal of the developing a participant’s scientific thinking and raising his/her level of technological competence. Each Technokat Educational Program consists of four basic components:

• • Freely exploringing technological devices to uncover underlying physical phenomena

  • Investigating those physical phenomena, systematically, to discover the underlying scientific principles

  • Applying the principles learned while exhibiting an understanding of technological design skills by building a device

  • Designing and constructing a new technological system utilizing the acquired scientific and technological knowledge within the educational guidelines of Problem Based Learning