Last Year on the Science Buddies Blog

By Amy Cowen on January 21, 2015 10:00 AM

Did you miss something? Check these highlights and favorite posts from last year on the Science Buddies Blog for great science project overviews, visual spreads that show hands-on science in action, student success stories, and real-world STEM connections to inspire and engage students, teachers, and families with science, technology, engineering, and math.

Last Year on the Science Buddies Blog / LEGO Movie and Engineering is Awesome

Last Year on the Science Buddies Blog / Brushbot

Last Year on the Science Buddies Blog / Boba spherification

Last Year on the Science Buddies Blog / veggie power squash

Last Year on the Science Buddies Blog / tie-dye eggs success story

Last Year on the Science Buddies Blog / raspberry pi star

Last Year on the Science Buddies Blog / gaming playing and gender

Last Year on the Science Buddies Blog / gumdrop geodesic dome

Last Year on the Science Buddies Blog / calculator crash test

Last Year on the Science Buddies Blog / superbugs dice

Last Year on the Science Buddies Blog / gaming city design

Last Year on the Science Buddies Blog / Juno Cassini Success Story

Last Year on the Science Buddies Blog / paper-dolls engineering

Last Year on the Science Buddies Blog / magic train maglev

Last Year on the Science Buddies Blog / Ping Pong catapult eggs

As a writer at Science Buddies, I really enjoy at the end of the year (or the start of the new year) looking back at the wide range of projects, activities, and science news connections I had the chance to experiment with and write about in the span of a year. As a writer and a parent, I greatly enjoy helping to highlight connections between the real world and the STEM projects that students might do as part of a science fair, for a class assignment, or just for fun on the weekends. I also very much enjoy the process of testing some of our science kits and science project procedures hands-on with my own students at home.

Here are a few of my favorite posts, especially the ones that really let you see the excitement hands-on science can encourage, from 2014:

I know exciting new projects and science kits are coming in 2015 from Science Buddies, and I can't wait to see what I get to try out and write about this calendar year as part of our mission to help encourage and support K-12 hands-on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education.