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Science Buddies Success Story a Finalist in Global Challenge with Girls in STEM Project

April 16, 2014 9:09 AM

Above: Laura with her display board for a project she did on bacteria and water bottles. Read Laura's story in the Science Buddies in Action area.Science Buddies is always excited to hear about and share a student's success with a school, home, or science fair project. Our Science Buddies in Action stories acknowledge the hard work students do on their science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) projects and also show teachers, parents, and other students what is possible with student… Read more

First Grader Puts the Science of Fruits and Gelatin to the Test

April 15, 2014 10:00 AM

You like your gelatin desserts solid and jiggly but not runny, right? A kitchen chemistry experiment reveals why certain gelatin and fruit combinations might appear at a potluck or picnic and not others. For this student and her family, the desire to turn her first grade class science experiment into a vegetarian-friendly one led to an interesting and enlightening twist on the science experiment. Above: First grade student, Riya, with a box of vegetarian gelatin she and her mother used… Read more

Family Egg Science

April 14, 2014 9:00 AM

Egg science comes over-easy this time of year. Whether you are boiling eggs, dyeing eggs, or both, there are easy questions you can ask with your kids to turn the activity into a hands-on science experiment that everyone will enjoy. In the past few years, the process of preparing colorful, hard-boiled eggs has taken on new and very scientific significance for me as a parent. In turning the seemingly simple act of egg dyeing into a hands-on… Read more

Dive Into Robotics with Robotics: Discover the Science and Technology of the Future

April 11, 2014 8:30 AM

This great guide and collection of family-friendly activities lets kids explore the history of robotics and put robotics engineering concepts to use with hands-on projects at home. Introduce Students to Robotics Engineering Robotics: DISCOVER THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF THE FUTURE with 20 PROJECTS is fast-paced and full of fascinating and inspiring robotics information, history, trivia, and try-it-out activities. In the world of student science, technology,… Read more

Floating Eggs: Weekly Science Project Idea and Home Science Activity Spotlight

April 10, 2014 9:35 AM

In this week's spotlight: an ocean sciences family experiment and science fair project. Some things float in water and some do not. Knowing the density of the object and the density of the water helps explain what is going on, and you can observe and talk about the buoyancy of an object. But adding salt can change what happens. Why? In this hands-on science experiment, you set up a series of dilutions to see at what point an egg goes from sinking to floating in salt water. How Salty… Read more

Life Sciences and Big Data: What's the Big Deal?

April 9, 2014 8:00 AM

There was no singular moment of Big Data Bang, but we are living in and heading towards a time of seemingly endless and exponential data explosion—and the race to create solutions and strategies to help tame, store, organize, and make sense of big data is on. But even before there was a moniker, there were large data sets being created and used in fields like the life sciences. Today, those data sets continue to grow and evolve. Working with publicly-available big data sets offers… Read more

Join Science Buddies at USASEF for Toothbrush Robot Racing and Catapult Launching!

April 7, 2014 6:00 AM

Take a sneak peak at an exciting pair of hands-on science and engineering activities that Science Buddies has planned for USASEF visitors and get inspired to make your own robots this week in celebration of National Robotics Week—or experiment with your own catapult project! From National Robotics Week to This Month's USASEF Expo (2014)! This week is National Robotics Week, a week dedicated to showcasing robotics engineering and… Read more

Soft Robots: Alternative Robot Design

April 4, 2014 11:00 AM

Robotics engineers are experimenting with soft robots and robots modeled after biological organisms. With a squishy project at Science Buddies, students can get in on the action and test their own soft, air-powered, robot. A recent story in MIT News shows off a cool robotic fish and highlights the softer side of robotics. This new wave of robotics research explores the benefits and possibilities of robots that sport softer, less angular exteriors, designs often inspired by biological systems… Read more

Yeasty Science: Weekly Science Project Idea and Home Science Activity Spotlight

April 3, 2014 10:00 AM

In this week's spotlight: a microbiology-themed family science experiment and science fair project. What conditions cause yeasts to be most active during fermentation? You and your students can find out by growing yeasts in different conditions and then using balloons to trap the gas released by the yeasts during fermentation so that you can measure it. Yeasty Beasties (full Science Buddies Project Idea) Single-Celled Science: Yeasty Beasties (science activity at Scientific… Read more

Musical Straws: Weekly Science Project Idea and Home Science Activity Spotlight

March 27, 2014 10:00 AM

In this week's spotlight: a music-themed family science experiment and science fair project. With a set of ordinary drinking straws, you can create a group straw "oboes." Can you play them? Sure! By blowing air through them, similar to the way you play a reed instrument, you can produce musical notes. At the end of the activity, you should have a set of straws, each of which will play a different note on a musical scale. What is the secret to changing the note each one plays? In this music… Read more

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