Omaha FLL (First Lego League) Qualifier I have a special Thanks for parents, relatives and supporters of our science club family, including Mayor Suttle, on this special day. We demonstrated a fantastic team effort at the Omaha FLL Qualifier! At the coaches meeting before the competition, we were told that nine teams would advance to the tournament in February. We were also told that not all nine teams advancing…
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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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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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