ROCKWALL, TX (April 12, 2024) Cain Middle School seventh grade science teacher Meridith Cooper has been selected to participate in the Teacher Innovator Institute at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. The Teacher Innovator Institute will teach middle-school educators how to bring the museum experience into their classrooms by exploring connections […]
The week features free virtual learning, experiments and fun for children from preschool through high school DALLAS (April 17, 2020) – The YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas will host a Virtual STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) workshop the week of April 20-24 so children of all ages can be introduced to STEM through fun, engaging […]
The Pullen Elementary School PTA Programs Committee recently sponsored the High Touch, High Tech Science Program for the 4th grade where students learned facts about gems, rocks and minerals. They uncovered the mysteries of rock formations and crystalline structures. Students learned about the areas these gems, rocks and minerals are found in. This hands-on, in school […]
Trevor Karrett of Rockwall, Texas, a member of the class of 2021 majoring in electrical and computer engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), was a member of a student team that recently completed an intense, hands-on research project through the WPI project center in Denmark. The project was titled Developing Funding Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations. […]
(ROCKWALL, TX – Aug. 23, 2019) The Jones third graders got hands-on with science tools this week. Students learned about the tools and what they are used for, but also went a step further. They examined each tool, noticed specifics about them, and learned how to properly handle them. They also go to test them out […]
(Frisco, TX—July 8, 2016) The Frisco Family YMCA is hosting a STEM Summer Camp for K-6th grades. Kids interested in robotics, coding and game design will be taught the Harvard/MIT Creative Coding Method to: design video games like Pong, PacMan and Shark Attack, code animations and interactive musical stories, and program robots for moves, mazes […]
(ROCKWALL, TX – October 19, 2015) Third and fifth graders from Springer Elementary School recently attended the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden to bring science to life. They explored the Rory Meyer’s Children’s Adventure Garden on a scavenger hunt and discovered different types of species that live in compost, logs, trees, underground, and in gardens. They also […]
ROCKWALL, TX (October 31, 2014) At Jones Elementary, Mrs. Chorba ( aka Mr. Shman the Game Show Host) taught students about the freezing, melting and boiling points of water in an entertaining presentation today. This is student Braden Strother having fun with science! Submitted by Deborah Rushing, Dorris A. Jones Elementary School. To share your […]
(November 20, 2012) There is a rich history of astronomy in America, although much more contemporary than, say, the ancient Persian and Chinese practitioners of this field. Known as “astrologers” in ancient times, these (almost exclusively) men frequently held seats of great power in dynastic and even feudal governments. Since America has only been a […]
July 18, 2012 – On July 4th, in an obvious European/Democrat conspiracy to trump 4th of July Celebrations in America, scientists with funny accents announced that a subatomic particle resembling the long-sought Higgs Boson has been detected at the world’s most complicated and powerful machine, the Large Hadron Collider in Cern, Switzerland. I’m obviously kidding […]