We’re back for our 17th summer season! No virus can stop us. We’re taking our great topics ONLINE! WHERE Everywhere WHO Ages 5-18 WHEN Week-long topics from June 22 through August 14, scheduled between 9am and 4pm, including some self directed topics. WHAT Ages 5-7 receive a kit of supplies and a written guide to a weeks-worth of great activities that will inspire imaginations and teach important concepts and promote hand-eye
We’re excited to announce our new project. Robotics And Beyond is launching The Toolkit, a weekly STEM education email newsletter. Every Monday, we’ll deliver a list of activities in areas like science, technology, engineering, math, and design, curated for students of various ages. We’re working with an established journalist named Caroline Delbert, who has written for publications like Popular Mechanics, to translate Robotics And Beyond’s expertise into digital content. We want to
We are all waiting until May 20 to hear Governor Lamont’s guidelines on re-opening the state. However, even then it may be unclear whether we will be able to hold our traditional summer camp in July at New Milford High School and our Academy in other locations in town. We wanted to let you know that we remain hopeful but we are also exploring other options. We may need to
In this time of crisis we saw a 50% increase in both total donations and number of donors compared with the last 2 years. Robotics And Beyond donations: $4,140 plus estimated $300 in matching funds, a 55% increase over the average received over the last 4 years in this event! A record 43 individual donors, 16 more than the prior record of 27, and 8 donors who contributed twice. Totals
WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR YOUR TIME AND DONATIONS Many hospitals and other health care facilities and emergency response units in CT, NY and NJ are still desperate for face masks, face shields and other protective equipment. Robotics And Beyond is supporting the network of PPE production and distribution (CT-PPE) created and coordinated by Danbury Hackerspace. This effort has produced well over 1000 face shields. We are coordinating and enlisting contributors
BEST RESOURCES FOR AT-HOME LEARNING IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS AND DESIGN There are so many resources for STEM and design available on the internet that it is hard to know which are the best. The staff at Robotics And Beyond have curated this list of some of the newest (and we think, the best) resources available to-date. Varied Topics Prodigy: Math platform for grades 1-8 Superhero Comic Book Maker:
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Show your talent, imagination and creativity! See what you can create to meet the challenge of each week that school is out. During each week we will post the photos we receive for all projects for the challenge of that week. Make as many projects as you want and send photos of them all! Send a photo of your creation to virusbashers@roboticsandbeyond.org. NOW, START BUILDING! We’ve been busy with our
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Here is our start on a list of inspirational movies with a technology story (and others that are just fun), interesting podcasts and books. Share your favorites as a comment below or email to virusbashers@roboticsandbeyond.org and we will add them to the list. Podcasts NASA’s Curious Universe: Explore the universe with NASA astronauts, scientists and engineers. Command Line Heroes: Great podcasts about the history and people behind the beginning
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