Sharing with The Rose

Plastic Drastic! is a great theatrical performance organized and shown by The Rose. rose theater.org Academy Science AcademyScience.us joined The greenOMAHAcoalition keepomahabeautiful.org and The Nebraska Sierra Club sierranebraska.org in presenting and educating the community about The Science of Trash.   AcademyScience.us met the First Lego League Trash Trek Challenge in 2015, then went on to qualify for FLL Nebraska State Tournament in December. Team Academy then won some cool awards…

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Thankful

Einstein

Academy Science has so much to be thankful for! We are grateful for all the support we have, starting with our parents! As a TEAM we won 1st place overall at the Omaha FLL Qualifier! We have a tremendous World Class Learning research project, a great EV3 robot design, and awesome core values!                 L to R Rear Tabish, Sebastian, Vincent; L to…

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Teach Us to Build Clocks Rather Than Just Tell Time

Academy Science youth are inspired and ready to take on the World Class Learning Unleashed Challenge presented by First Lego League FLL www.firstlegoleague.org/challenge/2014fllworldclass Dr Craig Christiansen of the Nebraska State Education Assn. visited Academy Science youth today. Dr Craig suggests that youth engaging the learning process today looking into the future focus on the learner, knowledge content and reasonable assessment practices. Did you know that Dr Craig was an Omaha…

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Academy Science 2014 First Lego League Programming Camp

2014 FLL World Class Challenge! We will be ready! Academy Science Youth and volunteer Coaches like to “Get Our Game On” fast and furious! We are developing robot game strategy and programming the robot to complete missions autonomously here. Snacking on “Brain Food!” Time for “Presentation Showdown!” Which Presentation Plan is Best? Hold on! We are not done yet! There is Always Room for One More! It is Late! Good…

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Valley Sesquicentennial Celebration Adventure

Academy Science 4-H

Academy Science greeted the public over this weekend at the Valley Nebraska Sesquicentennial Celebration! We presented much of what we learned about Disaster Planning, Lego Mindstorms Robots, First Lego League, River City Rodeo Robotics, CEENBoT, Robotics Expo, Rocket Building and Launching and stargazing at the Star Party! Disaster Planning. FLL Lego Mindstorms Robots. River City Rodeo Robotics, CEENBoT, Robotics Expo. We advertised and called visitors the old fashion way! Of…

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NASA Builds Rockets

Of course NASA is in the rocket engineering design and building business. Academy Science designs, builds, launches, flies and recovers rockets too! NASA rockets are ginormous in comparison, but ours are pretty slick. Here is a picture of our Academy Science mobile rocket building laboratory. When the rockets are hand built, they are measured, studied and admired extensively then taken outside for a real flight under real atmospheric meteorological conditions.…

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Valley Sesquicentennial

Valley is a town that is celebrating its official 150th year in existence over the weekend commencing August 15th. Valley established and grew along the Union Pacific Railroad line. When locomotives were steam engines, Valley was located at a point convenient to pull in and refill the locomotive steam boiler. Of course passengers would take a break from rail car adventure to visit amenities in the community. So grew an…

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Library Hosts Academy Science Rockets

Valley Library hosts a Summer Reading Program. Twin Rivers YMCA co-ops with Valley Library in the Summer Reading Program. The library staff reaches out to the community with interesting and educational children’s activities throughout the summer. In June, on Wednesdays 11th and 18th, from 10 am – Noon, Academy Science is visiting the Valley Library with its STEM focus on air rockets build and launch competition demonstration. All participating youth…

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Natures Fury Twin Tornadoes Destruction

Twin tornadoes are an uncommon phenomenon. Satellite tornadoes may present themselves when a mix of meteorological conditions are present an intense storm. Satellite tornadoes generally spawn from the same cloud rotation. Twin tornadoes exist when two separate rotational clouds each spawn a tornado independently of one another. What would you do if you were in the situation pictured here? Yikes!

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