Where can you find a celebration of 12 extraordinary research fellow projects, a display of 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade Virtual World Programming and Projects, and the Baden Academy Science Fair? Join us Friday, May 16 from 6:30 to 8:30 as we celebrate! Help us get the word out! DOWNLOADABLE […]
Miriam and Jadyn need your help! Miriam, with research assistant Jadyn, has a research project to become cat rescue advocates. Beaver County has one of the largest feral and stray cat populations. Help make their video viral and let’s work together to get Scarface adopted.
Erin Cheek, a third grade research fellow, needs your help. She is leading our school in planting a way station for Monarch Butterflies. Their survival and population are being threatened as the habitat they usually stop at in their long migration. Erin will be helping the fourth grade plant milkweed […]
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 […]
The first lab we visited on our 2014 CMU Field Trip was the Human-Computer Interaction Institute. We became members of an interdisciplinary team of programmers, psychologists, education designers, software architects, and computer engineers. Our third and fourth grade research fellows helped the team test their computer generated tutor as it […]
Infinitoy generously donated a Zoob Challenge Kit to the Baden Academy Media Lab. It’s wonderful! I can confidently say it is now the go to item whenever kids have a few unassigned moments in the lab. Lunch time and lab time will find two or three kids working together on […]
4th graders are busy taking a break from Virtual Worlds as they master electrical circuitry with their Asset Snap Circuit sets. Progress continues to finalize their STORM STORIES book. I was thrilled to welcome Miss Bianco’s and Miss Preffer’s second graders to the media lab last week. They did great […]
Virtual Worlds has begun to work on the individual species, creating and programming them in Alice 2. Students have already created a shared ecosystem on their virtual world with their teammates. Now, they are creating a unique species in their ecosystem, one that is part of the food web with […]