Check out the latest blog post from the Naturalist website featuring a Bryant’s great presentation on hummingbirds and some pictures from last month! Students registered for the club are invited to join us for a meeting this week, Thursday, January 5, from 2:45 to 3:45. We welcome Anne Ainsbury will […]
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Miriam and Jadyn are spreading a sweet Valentine’s message. Help them spread the work by sharing their video on your social media and sending it to friends and family in the Beaver Valley! The Kitty Whisperers are two research fellows in the Baden Academy Research Fellow program. They have been […]
Gavin Phillips and Brian Curry are visiting classrooms today with their children’s book Saving a Galapagos Penguin Family. The book was published at the end of the last school year as part of the research fellows program. Students from the school had a chance to critique some of the first drafts, […]
The Chess Club is a group of students who use the software at ChessCademy’s website to learn and master chess. The group earns media lab points for the points earned on the website. http://badenacademychessclub.weebly.com/ Once your child has signed up with an online avatar to ChessCademy, they can register for […]
Code.org sponsored the Hour of Code around the globe. We had a blast at Baden Academy, filming teachers and students celebrating laughing angry birds, skating Elsa’s, and snail monsters. How incredible to be a part of a week where 83,205,255 people participated! Even more incredible to inspire our students to learn […]
Baden Academy Chess Club Information Evening Thursday, December 4, 6:30 pm, Media Lab Log into the Baden Academy Chess Club website http://badenacademychessclub.weebly.com/ and click on the “Join the club” form. Students younger than grade 3 can still participate in earning online points (which will translate into media lab points!). Tournaments […]
Ever wonder why I get so worried when you try to plug in a computer in the media lab to the wrong cord? Research this Media Lab Essay Challenge and tell the story of what happens when the electrical volts travel from your power station, through the electrical cables of […]
December’s Scratch Challenge for Baden Academy Check out Shundeena Beard and Kassandra Lorey’s recording that is part of the this month’s competition! This video tutorial will help you make some changes and enter the contest. I can’t wait to see what you make! Tutorial Video: Visit the Scratch project HERE. […]
We were lucky to have the ‘Josh and Gab Show’ revisit the students to promote the ultimate anti-bullying message this past Thursday! Josh Verbanets and Gab Bonesso are two Pittsburgh-based writers, performers, educators, and public personalities. They perform for all ages by using a ‘musical-comedy approach’ about how to stop […]
Code.org created something ingenious. The plethora of learn it yourself fun game-like software design programs have created this bite-sized introductions and made it available for free on their website the week of December 8-14. Schools across the world (yes – WORLD!) are offering students a window of an hour of […]