Academy Science NXT Robot course

There are few opportunities more exciting than some Lego NXT Mindstorm robot computer science programming and engineering.  Our science club is fortunate to have a real engineer teaching us to design, build and program robots! Mr Nate Griffith deserves an award for his volunteer teaching efforts.  We mix in a measure of robot computer science while we pursue our other science interests. Lego NXT Mindstorm robots have sensors attached to…

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Academy Science Club Embryology Project

Can you imagine chicks pecking their way out of these eggs? We have a warm, humid environment in an incubator. It is about 100 F and 40% humidity in here. We are turning the eggs twice a day and talking to the chicks inside that are about to hatch. We started with one dozen fertile mostly brown chicken eggs on the first day. We rescued another dozen of mixed whitish…

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Hello world! Glad to meet you!

Welcome to our Academy Science Club blog! Our blog will inform you about some of the interesting and exciting things we do as an education focused club. – STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering, Math; we make this STEAM by rolling in Art. Are you interested in visiting our club activity? – just contact me! We can arrange a visit date and time. You never know where we may pop up…

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