Owen longed to make math education challenging and fun. He worked with mentor Aileen Owens from South Fayette High School to develop a Scratch Game for 1st graders to work with addition and subtraction equations. He began two great traditions. The first of research fellows working with classrooms and teachers […]
Category: 2012-2013 Research Fellows
A Groma robot dressed in an orange cape, googly eyes, and lab glasses invaded the Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd and 3rd-grade classrooms at Baden Academy Charter School as part of a research project and April Fool’s joke by Ava Coups, a 3rd grader at the school. Ava is part of the […]
Kate H. loves reading, gymnastics, amusement parks, and deadly stuff. She wanted to do a project on deadly things, like reptiles (but not turtles). She decided to do her project on snakes. At first, she wanted to work with live snakes, but there were rules about that and it wasn’t […]
Eli L. is a 3rd grade Research Fellow at Baden Academy Charter School. He dreams of creating 6-Dimensional Film experiences. (A cinematic experience that allows the movie-goer to be fully immersed by actually entering the film.) His project this year was to create a documentary of the first year of the […]
Skylar R. came to the lab with dreams of working with technology. Her first project idea was not a video. It was to work with an Arduino and program a sign for the lab. But we couldn’t get a mentor, and the programming was currently more in depth than our […]
How do we create a map and find a way to get where we want to go? A trip to the Beaver County Airport became a lesson in the history of navigation, the importance of collision alerts, and the technology of mapping a way there and back again. Second and […]
Isabella Kelm loves dolphins. When asked what she wanted to do as a research fellow project at the Baden Academy media lab, she immediately thought of dolphins! She wanted to write a book about dolphins, and mermaids, and Sparkle Lakes. She was partnered with a mentor, Cheryl Bonnes. Cheryl is […]