News, Stories, and Blog Posts
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The 2018 Girls Inc. of Northern Alberta Operation SMART Program was amazing as always! This year we had 21 girls that participated over 8 weeks from September 8th to November 3rd. The girls were able to learn about so many STEM disciplines, from wildlife biology with Bear Scare to scavenger hunts at the Oil…
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Our final two sessions for this edition of READesign at the High River Library saw our participants design, build, and test devices for slowing the fall / decreasing the impact of a fall for their action figure (designed and 3D printed from our 2nd session class). Joe Hardy exits the stolen airplane in our…
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The 2nd Session of our Fall 2018 READesign program at the High River Library was a lot of fun! Sphero robots and programming were where we began the afternoon, with the challenge from the first 4 chapters of “In Plane Sight” by Franklin W. Dixon to navigate along the ‘last known heading’ for the…
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We’re Back! Welcome to the Fall 2018 Program run of Project READesign at the High River Library! We are busy reading a fantastic old-school mystery novel, “In Plane Sight” by Franklin W. Dixon (which is really a pseudonym for several different authors who together wrote the Hardy Boys novels, of which this is #176).…
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BrainSTEM Alliance is excited to bring another READesign session to the High River Library this fall! November 3, 10, 17, and 24, 2018 from 1-3PM at the Library, students ages 10-14 years are invited to join us to build devices to help characters in our novel, “Hardy Boys #176 – In Plane Sight” by…
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On July 9th, 2018, members of BrainSTEM Alliance joined the WBRL rural services team on a flight up to Fort Chipewyan to host the READesign program with the Athabasca Delta Community School. There were 13 students, 6 boys and 7 girls, ages 5-12, that took place in the program, reading books and designing engineering…
