Curiosity STEM Bottle - Beginner Tier
Backpacks
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- Program and school year
- FTC-PEP · 2026-27
- Rule pack
- step-up-ftc-pep-2026-27 · v1.0.1
- Evidence level
- Official general rule
- Source freshness
- Review due · Low
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Product description
<b>Curiosity STEM Bottle – Beginner Tier</b><br><br>The Curiosity STEM Bottle is a modern take on the legendary Assassin’s Teapot—an object famous for secretly pouring two different liquids from a single container. Ours doesn’t hide anything behind ceramic walls; instead, the entire mechanism is visible. Two chambers, two air holes, and one surprisingly fun trick: cover the right hole with your thumb, and gravity plus air pressure decide which liquid flows. It’s part physics demo, part conversation starter, part “do it again” party trick.<br><br> The Beginner Tier gives you the essential experience: one bottle, one sleeve, and a deeper look at the science behind the trick. The included sheet explains how the mechanism connects to real ideas in fluid dynamics and hydrostatics—why liquids refuse to move without air replacing them, how pressure balances across chambers, and why a tiny hole can control an entire flow. It also ties the bottle back to history, from Pythagoras’s observations on continuous flow, to Archimedes’s work on displacement, to Pascal’s principle of pressure transmission. You’re not buying a lab instrument; you’re buying a curiosity object that happens to reveal real science when you play with it.<br><br><b>What’s Inside</b><br><ul><li>1 dual-chamber <b>Curiosity STEM Bottle</b> with independent air-flow control.</li><li>1 <b>P3M1 symmetry sleeve</b>, inspired by one of the 17 mathematically possible wallpaper groups.</li><li>A downloadable lesson sheet covering fluid dynamics, hydrostatics, and the principles discovered by Pythagoras, Archimedes, and Pascal—plus a clear explanation of how the Assassin’s-Teapot-style pour actually works.</li></ul>Whether it lives on a desk, in a classroom corner, or in someone’s backpack, the Curiosity STEM Bottle is the kind of object people pick up, tilt, shake, test, and question—exactly what curiosity is made of.
Source evidence
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- Catalog
- A Curiosity Box
- Source type
- Category
- Link status
- Stepup product link
- Enrichment confidence
- Unknown
Official policy source
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- Publisher
- Step Up For Students
- Applies to
- FTC-PEP · 2026-27
- Effective dates
- Jul 1, 2026 — Jun 30, 2027
- Source last modified
- Jul 14, 2026
- Reviewed by Navigator
- Jul 23, 2026
- Review due
- Aug 14, 2026
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