The Lego Chicken Challenge is the perfect STEM exercise. STEM skills are essential for building a career path leading to the emerging job market that will require critical thinking and technology skills. However, don’t look past communication skills acquired in team building such as those learned in the Lego Chicken Challenge. This is a GREAT …
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What makes a good video game? In this article, I am going to give you the five key elements you want to include in your video game design and a Game Design Document that is perfect for a STEM/classroom activity. These elements are what the best video games have had for over 30 years. Here …
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In June, every year across the United States, kids are walking across high school graduation stages. Most have finalized any plans for attending college and fall courses await. I want to give my advice to parents from a dad who is also a college instructor for nearly two decades. Take these 4 success tips and …
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When good friend and super mom, Jen Hoffman of the HealthyMoving.com podcast suggested I check out a book, I didn’t hesitate. As a homeschooling Mom, she is well versed in selecting excellent materials for her children. She messaged me that Ada Lovelace Poet of Science The First Computer Programmer by Diane Stanley is a children’s …
When a friend asked if he can try out the Scratch Coder Course, I thought it would be great. That friend is also a professional with over 30 years of software programming experience. I wasn’t sure what he would think. He used a word… not a 4 letter word but a 3 letter word. FUN. …
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It has been almost 3 years now and I am pain free in my wrist and arm. As a life long computer user, I developed pain in my forearm and shoulder blades as part of my RSI (repetitive stress injury) diagnosis. After visiting doctors, trying to rest, and modifying my work and posture habits, I …
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We are surrounded by technology. Whether you think it is great or a distraction it really has crept into every part of our lives. Today we communicate with each other using smartphone apps, select movie from our couch after viewing a sprawling menu of movie theatre posters, order our gifts via websites without leaving our …
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As a teacher and mentor you often get an email from a former student that contains the phrase “you probably don’t remember me….” They often then contain a request for a letter of reference which, if they were a good student, I gladly oblige. There are others that reach out to me for guidance and …
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When you hear the words “Star Wars”, what comes to mind? Jedi, light sabres, space duels and…. droids like BB-8 and R2D2. When Star Wars: The Force Awakens hit the theaters in 2016 we met the latest addition to a long line of interesting characters with one being a particular droid, BB-8. We then got …
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Do you have a Mom? Um…don’t answer that. As I glanced down at my calendar app on my phone it hit me, 2018 is here. This summer I turn a year older but feel like 25 and if you ask my wife, some days I act like I am 12!! LoL. But as I sat …