Since we launched the KNE Challenge last month, more than 50 kids earned our custom T-shirt by bringing the fun, amazing, and powerful world of STEM to other kids. They met the challenge by volunteering at 2 different elementary schools'…
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FIRST LEGO League
"FIRST is more than robots. The robots are a vehicle for students to learn important life skills. They leave, even after the first season, with a vision, with confidence, and with a sense that they can create their own future."…
AMNH Digital Flight School: Taking over the Hayden Planetarium
by Erika (age 12, @KNEstemGirls) This past summer, I took over the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History every morning for a week. All of the campers got to use the ridiculously expensive space navigating technology that our…
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Learning to write
To the chagrin of our family, good writing requires more than just coming up with a brilliant idea and putting it on paper or (more often these days) in a Word document. Good writing truly is an art form and…
“Rusty” the Robot
The NAO Robot has been a hot topic since our recent STEAM Fair. The NAO is an adorable, 23-inch tall, programmable, humanoid robot from Aldebaran Robotics. This incredible little guy can walk, talk, see you, hear you, and feel your…
Adventures in Science Family Time at the American Museum of Natural History
"By a show of hands, could you tell us which of you ate the mealworms, caterpillars, and grasshoppers?" This was a question I asked 18 middle school students during the family presentation time at the Adventures in Science's Evolution Institute…
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