My geographer friend, Emily White, helps me keep tabs on all things geo. I'm glad she passed along information on the Barbara Petchenik Children's Map Drawing Competition. In fact, I was wondering how I missed this last year, but it turns out that this is a biannual international competition. That is, it takes place every two years. Did you ever meet a kid who was obsessed with making maps? I know one and I'm glad he's still young enough to ... [ Read More ]
Back to School STEM: #STEMchat Recap
Thanks to our sponsor, Texas Instruments, we had one of the best STEMchats ever with more than 150 participants resulting in 12.8 million impressions! What a great discussion full of ideas and resources for STEM education for middle school students and beyond! I appreciate the help of panelists Kelly Kutach, Emily Calandrelli, Kris Cain, Leticia Barr, and Shelly Kramer for keeping the conversation moving and props to Brandie Langer for helping ... [ Read More ]
Our First VEX Robotics Competition
Our bot scores a bonus sack during practice. My newbie VEX robotics team, The Makers, worked and reworked and tweaked (a bit more than they should have, IMO) to come up with a robot that would do a good job in this year's Sack Attack challenge. And they did it. In just six weeks. That said, I reinforced the fact this was was our year to learn, not to win. Still, we were all pretty proud of their bot. And then we walked in our first ... [ Read More ]