All Are Welcome! Join us for: Rocket Design Build Launch! Check out your Rocket performance! Enjoy some smaller scale ballistic missile science! Light Lunch for All interested visitors complete with an ice cream dessert, until food items are consumed. Valley Days Saturday Afternoon in the City Park. August 10th 1:00 – 4:00. 400 W Vass St. City Park, Valley NE between the pool, baseball diamond and tennis courts. We look…
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All Are Welcome! We look forward to visiting with you at the Library for Rocket Design Build and Launch! Thursday July 25th from 3:00 pm until about 5:00 or so. Valley Library 232 N Spruce St Valley NE 68064 AcademyScience.us Leaders Michael and Cathy Hanus
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Free Geocache Fun All Are Welcome! Saturday July 20th 11 am – 1 pm Light Meal Please Bring Your Smartphone and a Small Weather tight Container Valley Minipark 41.3127, -96.3459 105 N. Spruce St. Valley, NE Contact Michael or Cathy Hanus, Leaders Academic@academyscience.us 402-541-7019
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Academy Science Loves Its Volunteers! Big Applause to the National Weather Service NWS in Valley, NE for sharing Katie and Paul with us today! Katie and Paul visited and showered all of us with the Science of Meteorology! We are also grateful for all participants family members that pitched in to make this activity a success! Here we have an action shot of the Rocket Design Build and Launch We…
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FREE Nebraska Science Festival Community Event Nebraska Science Festival in Valley Everyone is Welcome! Sponsored by AcademyScience, Valley, NE STEM Demonstrations Saturday April 20 from 12:00 pm until 3:00 pm or so. 111 E. Front St. Valley, NE (Valley Veterans Club East Entrance) Indoor Opportunity: Explore Gamepad controlled and Autonomous Robots, Explore Computer Programming Communicate with the Robots, Try your skill or chance at some robot games. Explore Four Forces…
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Parrot Uses Alexa to Order Watermelon, Lightbulbs While Owner Is Out. A parrot has been caught ordering strawberries, a watermelon and even a water boiler through his foster owner’s electronic personal assistant. Rocco, an African Grey, requested the items through an Alexa device while his minder was out of the home. Luckily, due to a parental lock, none of his attempted purchases went through. Rocco, who lives with Marion Wischnewski…
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Never Give Up. A finger poking through a manhole cover alerts rescuers to a boy swept away by flood waters. CNN. Crews desperately searched for a Wisconsin boy after a powerful storm drenched his small community and sucked him into a drainage ditch. The hunt seemed to be going nowhere until a rescuer noticed one of the boy’s fingers poking through a manhole cover. The eleven-year-old was playing in a…
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Parasites Can Mind-Control Animals Without Infecting Them A tapeworm is essentially a very long, parasitic towel with a grappling hook for a head. It attaches itself to the internal organs of its host with its fiendish head spines, and it absorbs nutrients through its tagliatelle-shaped body. Once fastened, it does very little. It has no mouth or gut, no circulatory or respiratory systems. Its sparse nerves culminate in a cluster…
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World O! Water is an annual event hosted by the City of Omaha at Lake Wehrspann, a large man-made lake in a dam retained waterway constructed by the Papilion Missouri NRD. This dam site has evolved into its characteristic biome over the years. AcademyScience.us researches, participates and demonstrates a water themed project every year at this event. This year youth in the science program researched the need for fresh, clean…
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Valley Days Saturday You will find us in the Park east of the open ball field where the fireworks will launch Saturday night, south of the tennis court, under the old maple tree. Look for our trademark family Picnic meal spread and the feather flags. ‘We will bring out the Design, Build and Launch model compressed air rockets made from common school supplies, but COOL and FUN! Check out the…
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