We see four parts to an FLL competition.

Senior Solutions theme, Core values, Robot game, and Robot presentation. Our team will make four presentations before the challenging day of competition is ended.  Senior Solutions theme: every team must brainstorm, research, develop and share a solution for seniors in presentation format that will enhance their day to day lives allowing them to be more productive, comfortable or better in some way. Core values presentation: every team must demonstrate in…

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Radio comes to Academy Science Club!

Donna Connell is experienced in radio presentation and film making. Our team sure can learn a lot from her! As a team we build a presentation. The presentation has creativity and lots of facts that we learned from our research in Senior Solutions. There is so much information out there about how seniors can be more comfortable and enjoy life! When we interview and survey seniors we learn a lot…

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Academy Science Club Core Values

What can a youth group do to excel in interpersonal relationship and community engagement success? One great response is to adopt and practice Core Values! FLL Core Values are the cornerstones of the FLL program. They are among the fundamental elements that distinguish FLL from other programs of its kind. By embracing the Core Values, participants learn that friendly competition and mutual gain are not separate goals, and that helping…

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Academy Science Club is a recognized Nebraska 4-H Club of Excellence!

A great day in a club member’s and leader’s experience! Nebraska 4-H Extension recognizes Academy Science Club as a Club of Excellence at the Awards Dinner. The certificate reads: Nebraska 4-H Club of Excellence This certificate is presented to Academy for developing enthusiastic young people who boldly take action to demonstrate life skills as capable, caring, confident, competent kids of character thus contributing to the improvement of themselves, their family,…

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Academy Science Club practices teamwork!

Ever wonder what one of the most gratifying experiences is to a youth club leader? All youth club leaders have their own goals and wish lists, but everyone must admit it is inspiring and rewarding to witness the youth club members engaged in tasks as a team. TEAM: Together Everyone Achieves More. – Chambless For the club leader: It is a great day to be alive!

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Academy Science Club FLL practice and presentation

Gloria Erickson from the Eastern Nebraska Office on Aging (ENOA) traveled across Omaha to visit our science club. Ms Erickson informed us all about seniors, the many services her agency offers seniors, seniors’ needs and what we may do to better understand and assist seniors. In return we demonstrated to Ms Erickson what a science club preparing for FLL Senior Solutions does! We wrote exemplary pseudocode, demonstrated the robot computer…

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Academy Science Club FLL Programming Camp

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…

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River 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…

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Every 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…

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