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Upcoming Reading for 2015
Pulp Fiction in Pearl’s Peril
Pearl’s Peril features a competent heroine whose engineering prowess often saves the day in this pulp fictional adventure game. Read More
SF Worldbuilding: Dinosaur Train
Karen tries to fill in the worldbuilding background to make PBS’s Dinosaur Train make science fictional sense. Read More
Breast Pumps at the MIT Hackathon
This weekend, the MIT Hackathon focuses on making the breast pump Not Suck! Read More
Space Opportunities and News
Student unmanned aircraft competitions, opportunities to launch payloads on NASA rockets, a space anniversary, and more. Read More
Pinbusted or Pintrusted: Fireworks in a Jar
Get a fireworks display in a jar–when you follow all the instructions correctly! Read More
Canada vs. Mars in Temperature Death Match
It was colder in Canada than on Mars! Except wait… maybe not. Fact checking FTW. Read More
Ants… in… Spaaace!
The latest ISS re-supply mission will include a shipment of ants involved in a K-12 educational research project. Read More
Favorite Christmas Present: Roll & Play Game
A fun introduction to board games for toddlers age 18 month and up. Read More
Review: Shape the Village
A new app for toddlers that teaches shapes in a bright and engaging way. Read More
Astronauts Are Moms Too
Dr. Karen Nyberg returned from six months on the International Space Station to her fellow-astronaut husband and their three-year-old son. Read More
A Children’s Music Garden in an Industrial Land
Using recycled industrial canisters to make a music garden. Read More
Interview: Running a Kid’s Track at a Geek Convention
What does it take to run a kid’s programming track at a convention, one that keeps a multitude of kids entertained and engaged? Read More
Review: Wee Rockets on the iPad and iPod Touch
Wee Rockets is a spaceship design app for the toddler set. Read More
Pinbusted or Pintrusted: Melted Crayon Wax on Pumpkins
Melting crayon wax onto a pumpkin is an easy, fun craft that you can do even with a toddler. Read More
NASA to Launch High School Students' Satellite
NASA plans to launch a small satellite designed by students at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Virginia. Read More
Scientists When They Were Little Girls
Cute little girl pictures of women who grew up to be scientists. Read More
World's Largest Walking Robot is a Dragon
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, this fire-breathing dragon is the world’s largest walking robot. Read More
Food Allergy Cards for International Travel
Laminated cards that explain your (or your child’s) food allergies in a wide variety of languages. Read More
Do You Randomly Gender-Swap Characters in Kids Books?
If the characters in a book are all depicted as boys, we sometimes swap the genders around when we’re reading the stories out loud. Read More
