Technology
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Kepler - A Search for Habitable Planets
In this video, your sutdents can learn more about Kepler and NASA's search for other worlds.
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Botball
Botball is an educational robotics program where teams of kids work together to build robots and compete in challenges. Help your students join a Botball team or start their own!
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Build Your Own Robot Arm
Using common materials, this activity give kids parameters and the tools needed to build a robot arm that can pick up a styrofoam cup. It's a great exercise to get kids to work togeth…
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Ocean Engineering
Children will learn what ocean engineers do. This article is a great intoduction for anyone wanting to explore this occupational field.
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Naval Architect
Children will be introduced to Carmen G. Borda, a Naval architect working for the Navy.
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Physical Oceanographer
Children will learn about Physical Oceanography by reading this article.
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Revolutionary tool will methodically track fish populations in the ocean
This article is about the Wave Glider, made by Liquid Robotics, and the many applicable uses of this invention.
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Wind Turbine
This project wtill explore and teach kids Sir Isaac Newton's principle: for every action there is an equal and opposite reation. This project uses items that students canfind in their…
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Spore Creature Creator
Available in different platforms, your child could make his or her own universe. Spore received the Editor's Choice Award from the Children's Technology Review.
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PC Mouse Robot
Share this video with your students, in which they can learn how to build a robotic mouse out of a USB PC Mouse.
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How to Make a BristleBot
After watching this video on how to make a simple robot that moves using the head of a toothbrush, your students may want to make their own!
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Bicycle Wheel Windmill
Share this short video with your students about how one person made a real windmill out of an old bicycle wheel and some packaging tape.
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Dancing with Robots
Learn how kids work with robots and the cool things robots can be designed to do. Photo by Sarah Webb.
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Nonstop Robot
Is it really possible for the bad guys in movies to be immortal? Find out!
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Adorable Walking Robot Sets Distance Record
Watch this adorable robot break the walking distance record at 14.3 miles. Wow, that's quite a long way for a robot! Click on the link to read the article or watch the video.
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Scientists Uncover How To Swim Through Sand Like a Lizard
By building a snake-like robot a computer model, scientists have been able to mimic the movement that creatures use to move through sand. This development could lead to huge advances …
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RPI Students Robot Headed to Space
Learn about the robot that a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute helped build that is headed to space. The work he did on the robot was crucial to making it work and now the r…
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Chinas Robotic Restuarant
Kids will love reading about this cool new restaurant in China. Sololy run by robots, this restaurant is one cool place!
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Da Vinci surgical robot peeling a grape at Southmead Hospital event
Did you know that robots have become so precise and accurate that they can perform very intricate surgeries! Check out how the Da Vinci robot was able to peel grapes without even harm…
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Nintendo unveils $300 Wii U
The newest game console is out! Check out Nintendo's Wii U in full action! ction!