Is anyone else here engaged in STEM education and educational simulations?

Nick Hein — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:13:37 +0000

My specific focus is flight science (airplane and rocket simulations, simulations of renewable energy systems like pumped hydro storage). Would love to share experience, tools and strategies. My commercial coding experience is from 30 years ago. Just getting back into the coding world with Gemini and Claude Code.
Thanks,
Nick in Madison, WI

Newbie looking for mentorship, inspiration

Nick Hein — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:57:53 +0000

Good evening,
I've just joined the community on the recommendation of a fellow makerspace member. I'm involved in 2 activities right now. 1) Writing design and simulation tools for streamlined bicycles
Examples can be found at this site: Recumbents.com

2) Writing science education simulations for k-12 STEM education at local schools and an aviation museum (flight science).
Examples can be found at this site: https://sites.google.com/view/bikeflysci/home

I've taught myself so far, primarily through trial and (t)error, and am looking for someone slightly above my experience level who can help me see what I need to learn next. I'm using Google Anti-gravity to create .html/.js apps that can run from the browser.

In my past I've programmed in FORTRAN, BASIC, C, C++ and a few other dead languages. Now I'm mostly using AI to create the user interface. I let it create the physical modeling, but I'm knowledgable enough to check it for errors.
Any help and advice is appreciated - either through the comments or otherwise.
Thank you,
Nick

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Is anyone else here engaged in STEM education and educational simulations?

Newbie looking for mentorship, inspiration