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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Academy Science DC West Robotics Presentation

FLL World Class Challenge

Academy Science enjoys robotics demonstrations. Today is a big day! We get to present to over one hundred middle school students! We are selecting two popular robot models for our presentation: Lego Education Mindstorms NXT and UNO PKI CEENBoT. We have a US First FLL First Lego League award winning robot engineering design and build for a solid robot structure to demonstrate today. This robot is well designed and outfitted…

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Metropolitan Science & Engineering Fair

This spring the Metropolitan Science and Engineering Fair MSEF is at the Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium. In prior years the MSEF was at University Nebraska Omaha and Lauritzen Botanical Gardens. MSEF is for science student presenters in the seventh grade through high school senior. This year it appears that there are zoological related projects so large in number that the zoo is an appropriate place to view these presentations.…

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Celebrate Women’s History Month

4-H celebrates Women’s History! http://www.4-h.org/4-H-Today/Women-s-History-Month-Feature–4-H,-Extension-and-USDA/ The Library of Congress celebrates Women’s History! http://womenshistorymonth.gov/ Academy Science is grateful for Women’s History! What would we do without our Moms and all the special women in our lives?!

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Creative Visual Arts Expo

Mr Tom Orange is a great art teacher. Mr Orange has taught art for many years. Despite all the items Mr Orange has to do, he still finds time in his busy day to instruct Academy Science youth and adults in the artistic creation of robot themed art.

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CEENBoT Showcase

University Nebraska Omaha UNO Peter Kiewit Institute PKI has a Computer Science Engineering CSE Program that develops and integrates a CEENBoT robot into its curriculum. K-12 schools benefit from the education outreach of the program. Academy Science is a K-12 classroom beneficiary of the CEENBoT program. CEENBoT Showcase is a day long demonstrate your skills experience in an airplane hangar at SASM sasmuseum.org. How does this work? You get a…

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First Lego League State Tournament

Academy Science started research on its 2013 First Lego League FLL theme Natures Fury last March. As you can see in this blog, community resources on a global scale are thoroughly queried and absorbed. Disaster preparedness and emergency planning are large targets for research. The absorption of creative and intellectual resources is qualified and quantified. The result? The problem is that significant portions of the local community: the young, elderly…

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Merry Christmas! Academy Science Club

At the Science club it is fun and a tradition to celebrate our achievements! Why? Achievements are FUN and celebrating them is more FUN! This year we have so much to celebrate! Meeting the community with Senior Solutions, Weather station, Guest speakers, Airplane flights, Embryology, Rockets, 4-H County and State Fairs, Disaster Planning and Emergency Management, River City Robotics, Science club Programming Camps, Art and 4-H awards like Club of…

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Academy Science In the News!

Academy is a science club for youth that meets at Community of Grace Church in Elkhorn. Academy activities focus on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) topics. This past year, they have learned about robots, rockets and flight, solar energy, building science, embryology, and caring for and showing birds. This time of year is robot season. Members learn how to design, build, and program robots. They learn about engineering…

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