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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You can find us enjoying ourselves and presenting computer and robot science to the community at Elk Ridge Village.
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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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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…
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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 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…
Read MoreAcademy 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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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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