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 […]
Category: STEM Education
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. […]
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 […]
That’s right. 4th and 5th graders Enrichment students have logged in each week to Stanford University where they were enrolled in the the online class taught by Professor Jo Boaler on How Kids Learn Math. MOOC is an acronym for “Massive Open Online Course.” It is an online class offered […]
Students earn two media lab points (six points win a lunch in the lab!) for submitting a paragraph description of the glass that made touch screen possible! Many of the Baden Academy students have been visiting the Media Lab these first few weeks for a refresher in how to respect […]
Welcome to the Fall 2015 Scratch Challenge for Baden Academy, “The Orbits of Roald Dahl’s Moons.” This is a scene from Roald Dahl’s book, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Willie Wonka and Charlie Bucket need your help. The moon is out of phase. Can you fix it? Check out […]
Ava, Gloria, Bryant, and Emily will serve as members of NASA’s virtual crew on Orion Flight Test-1 (EFT-1). With the help of Mrs. Walaan, the research fellows team successfully completed the NASA Design Exploration Challenge. Videos from astronauts and NASA engineers guided the students in mastering difficult concepts of space […]
The Research Fellows Program at Baden Academy Charter School is open to all students going into 3rd , 4th or 5th grade who are enrolled at Baden Academy Charter School. This year 22 students were served by the program working on 12 individual projects. Students may apply to become to […]
The January 31st field trip of the Baden Academy Research Fellows finished up with yet another new world, the Field Robotics Center warehouse. The space was filled with robotics projects that have already changed our world and researchers building new ways to respond to the needs of humanity with robotic […]
Research fellows from Baden Academy got a chance to meet with several researchers from the Center for Nucleic Acids Science and Technology (CNAST) and its outreach effort, DNA Zone. We witnessed Genoa Warner demonstrate TAML® hydrogen peroxide activators and Taylor Canady demonstrate DNA structure. CNAST has united chemists, biologists, and […]