Join the Maker Movement This Weekend at Barnes & Noble
For the second year, Barnes & Noble is teaming up with Maker Faire to bring the maker movement to you. The Mini Maker Faire brings together tech enthusiasts, crafters, educators, engineers, science club members, students, entrepreneurs, hobbyists and Makers of all kinds to learn from each other, get craft ideas and science fair project ideas, […]
Got Creative Kids? Find Great Hands-On STEAM Activity at Maker Events and Odyssey of the Mind
Like the fledgling universe after the Big Bang, Maker events can be a bit chaotic. But that’s only because of all the energy created by the swarms of curious and excited kids (and their satellite parents) clustering around robots, 3D printers, and a diversity of other experimental crafts and STEM mini-projects. The enormous power and […]
Nerd-Inspiring Book Review: What If? and Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe
As a Nerd and a Nerd-builder, myself, my beach read this summer was Randall Munroe’s New York Times best-selling What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. What can I say? When I have quiet time on an airplane (or “sky boat,” in Thing Explainer parlance) or the beach, I like to stretch my […]
Raising Nerd Profile: The Engineering Professor
Hey, Nerd builders, it’s International Engineering Day! In honor of this Nerd-inspired “holiday,” we’re throwing our ultra-high-lumen, career spotlight on engineering professor Dr. Ethan Danahy. Dr. Danahy is a Research Assistant Professor at Tufts University’s Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), a group that’s been around for 20 years exploring methodologies and tools for […]
How to Fit STEAM Curriculum in When School’s Out
I Know What You Were Supposed to Do Last Summer Vacation: How to Fit STEAM Curriculum in When School’s Out I admit it. This summer, I failed to print out the math review worksheets for RocketteGirl and Lightning McQueen. I know, I know – bad dad! But, wait, hear me out. Like most kids these […]
First LEGO League: Getting Started with LEGO Robotics
Every year, 250,000 kids from around the world descend upon similar arenas to take part in what robotics enthusiasts might call the Super Bowl for Nerds. The competition features semi-autonomous robots tackling nearly two dozen tabletop challenges. The bots’ student “handlers” compete with the hope of earning recognition as some of the greatest robotics engineers of their time.