11 Free Online Coding Classes That Will Get Your Nerds Programming Quickly
The Hour of Code Is Here – Let’s Get Started Somewhere in the depths of an empty network farm, middle of nowhere: Tap…tap…tap. In a dingy, dark basement, the green projection of a computer monitor glowing across her face, our hero typed with fury. “We only have a few seconds; can you break the code?” […]
12 Awesome Science Shows to Unleash Your Kid’s Inner Nerdiness
Kids’ TV Shows with Seriously Awesome Science Guest Post by Taylor Flynn of HomeTechScoop.com Screen time is never as good as getting your hands dirty, but there are some great kids’ TV shows that explain scientific concepts in age-appropriate ways. After all, you can’t take a field trip to the jungle or watch the […]
Here’s Your Chance to Be an Official Part of a Mars Mission
NASA’s InSight Mission Is Taking Names To Mars In November of 2018, the NASA InSight Lander will be landing on Mars. Now you can add your name to the historic event. In 2015, nearly 827,000 people signed up to add their names to a silicon microchip on-board the robotic spacecraft. NASA is now adding a […]
Amaze and Inspire Your Nerds with Halloween Science
Halloween is the Perfect Time For Creepy Science Fun Science is fun. Halloween is fun. Halloween science is Nerd-tastic fun! Science is the pursuit of the unknown. Measuring, classifying, and otherwise quantifying the nature of our world. Proving or disproving hypotheses. Understanding states of existence. Cause and effect. It’s a battle of fact vs. fiction. […]
How to Get the Most of The Solar Eclipse
On August 21, the United States will be witness to an event that hasn’t happened in 99 years, a total solar eclipse that will span across the entire North America! “An eclipse was never on my list of things to do, but after seeing two of them, it should be on everyone’s bucket list,” […]
Spotting the ISS: Just Look to the Sky for Inspiration
How A Thunderstorm and The International Space Station Turned A Swim Meet Upside Down Most people think that you need a high-powered telescope to spot the International Space Station, but believe it or not, it’s much easier than you think. It was pushing 9pm, the final swim meet of the season was only half over, […]