“Run! Run from the dragon as fast as we can!” When my children were very little, so little their little legs moved quick but traveled slow and their attention was enraptured by every pebble, line and shadow, I grew impatient and a bit frightened by backing cars on the walk from the car to the …
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Apr 27
Real World Design Challenge
Your mission: To design an unmanned aerial search vehicle to locate a scout lost in the two mile radius of the Philmont recreation area. That was the challenge given to hundreds of teams across the country. I had a chance to sit down with the 2nd place national winners, the CCA Innovators, and learn more …
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Apr 27
Finding a Way There and Back Again
How do we create a map and find a way to get where we want to go? A trip to the Beaver County Airport became a lesson in the history of navigation, the importance of collision alerts, and the technology of mapping a way there and back again. Second and third grade Baden Academy Media …
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Apr 14
World’s largest employer of engineers – the US Army Corps of Engineers
Did you know that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is the largest employer of engineers in the world? 37,000 civilian and military engineers under this one umbrella! Katie Bates, a young, spirited, hilarious civil engineer with the Army Corps of Engineers spoke to a group of teens and parents, professionals and teachers gathered for …
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Apr 02
Baden Academy Invaded By an Evil Robot!
A Groma robot dressed with orange cape, googly eyes, and lab glasses invaded the Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms at Baden Academy Charter School as part of a research project and April Fool’s joke by Ava Coups, a 3rd grader at the school. Ava is part of the Baden Academy Media Lab’s Research …
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Mar 30
April Fool’s Day
The ancient Romans celebrated Hilaria, the last day of the Festival of Cybele. It was a feast of joy that followed a period of fasting and mourning, a spring festival of celebration and merrymaking. Hindus celebrate Holi, a spring festival of colors that lowers the strictness of polite behavior and fills the atmosphere with excitement, …
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Mar 10
Pi Day is March 14
March 14 is Pi Day and Albert Einstein’s birthday! How are you going to celebrate? Pi (Greek letter “π”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — which is approximately 3.14159. Around the world, people celebrate the universal language of math by recognizing …
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Mar 03
Mitchel Resnick: Sowing the Seeds for a More Creative Society
What does it take to inspire sustained interest in science and inquiry? On Thursday, February 28, 2013, the LRDC (Learning Research and Development Center) of the University of Pittsburgh opened their first lecture of the 50th Anniversary Distinguished Speaker Series with the question. Dr. Resnick was introduced by Chris Schunn of the LRDC who …
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Feb 23
HOMAGO Labs
How do kids learn to use new media? A leading researcher in the field, Mimi Ito, has proposed three levels of participation: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out. Her work (alongside numerous researchers experimenting with this inquiry based learning model) has inspired the new movement of libraries and community centers to create HOMAGO Labs. …
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Feb 18
Scratch Programming and 3rd Grade Common Core
One of my part time hats includes serving as the Baden Academy Media Lab Director. I have the extreme pleasure of working with a number of very gifted 2nd and 3rd graders and a spectacular teaching staff. The twelve media lab students I see twice a week have just completed a four week unit on …
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