First Lego League competition requires a lot of teamwork. As a science club we meet once a week for two or three hours. Since some clubs focus on FLL all year long while we are swapping science topics throughout our calendar, we have lots of catching up to do in the Fall. So we get together as a team at camp to fill a weekend with robot programming fun. Our…
Read MoreRiver City Rodeo Robot Competition
Can you imagine landing in one of the greatest team building exercises on Earth? Come to River City Rodeo Robot Competition! About twenty middle school and a dozen high school teams came together in a big room to build a robot and strategize to meet a previously confidential challenge. The playing field is level. It did not take long for a general strategy to develop for the robot game. We…
Read MoreEvery club needs officers.
Humans are social by nature. Anytime we have two or more of us get together, we have a political experience. This is often a good thing. So we are wired to make the best of it. It is time for Academy Science Club to elect youth officers. Our club follows in the footsteps of democracy. We allow each member interested in holding a position of political capacity to speak about…
Read MoreAcademy Science Club Art Class
The art creation class is a good time and a lot of fun. You can explore your artistic potential. We filled a large room with adults and children, all pleasantly engaged in creativity. Parents tell me it is therapeutic! If only I could contain the outpouring of karma in a vessel… Dear Mr Tom Orange of Lifegate Church School, Thank you.
Read MoreAcademy Science Club FLL Build Camp
For those of us who revel in the excitement of First Lego League FLL competition, this is a glorious time of year! FLL released their robot game board challenges and their field kit within the last week. We want to be one of the first teams to receive the challenge! There are few things more exciting than sorting hundreds of Lego pieces and building missions! This camp allows us the…
Read MoreAcademy Science Club Demonstration
Our club enjoys demonstrating to the community the interesting things we do in science throughout the year. Today we visited ACE True Value on 84th & Center in Omaha for our science club demonstration. http://omaha.net/events/academy-science-robotics-demonstration-2012-09-01 We get to meet some of the most interesting people! We are impressed when Mayor Jim Suttle stops by. When the Honorable Mr Mayor speaks, we listen and learn.
Read MoreReal live airplane flight!
We studied the Four Forces of Flight: Thrust, Lift, Drag, Gravity. We built model airplanes that fly. Retired Air Force Colonel Robert McCartney visited with a presentation on aviation. Today we flew in a real airplane at a local airport!
Read MoreAcademy Science Club Poultry Project
Nebraska 4-H Sarpy County Fair Poultry Showmanship Our science club embryology project has “grown” into our club poultry project. This is a big deal and required a great deal of logistics planning. There is more going on here than poultry growth and development! We learned about how to study important facts about our bird and how to present ourselves. Why are both genders referred to as “showman”?
Read MoreAcademy Science Club Rocket Competition
Nebraska 4-H Sarpy County Fair Rocket Competition The big day has finally arrived! The moment of truth we are waiting for! Most of us have designed, discussed, flown, redesigned and tested model rockets of different materials in the best attempt to minimize drag and maximize flight. We have a specially designed and constructed compressed air launcher that maximizes control of model rocket launch. We measure and record flight data. We…
Read MoreAcademy Science Lesson Plan Format
Grandpa says “sometimes teachers can be an odd lot, but it is hard to raise up children right without good teachers.” So we arrive at a place where we must always jump off from as teachers: the lesson plan format. There can be as many possible ways to do this as there are teachers, but a popular lesson plan format that grew from the research and practices of Dr. Madeline…
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