The STEM Power of Rocketry
Rocketry, at the high-power level, really offers lots of opportunities for STEM learning. I have been involved with L1 and L2 rocketry for more than a decade and the DeArmond Makerspace in Price Science...
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Software Defined Radio – SDR
I have written about the advantages of a ham (amateur) radio license and the experimental opportunities that such a license leads to. Probably one of the easiest starting points with beginning to understand radio...
Emerging Technology & Digital Bird Nests
J.Stephens/R.Stephens I had the honor and pleasure to work with some great colleagues this summer (June Stephens, and Joe Cerreta and Patrick Sherman from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) on a project to show off new...
Virtual Geomorphology
Recently, staff at the Allan Price Science Commons were asked to help with a virtual geology field camp. Ray Weldon is the professor and given the current pandemic, he was concerned that students...
MakerSpaces in the World of Pandemics
The DeArmond MakerSpace was certainly not alone in the response to the Covid-19 Pandemic spreading across our country, but I still want to highlight what we did. When the spread of virus hit the...
Eugene City Nature Challenge 2020
This last weekend was the 2020 City Nature Challenge. I blogged about the event last year, but it is such great event that I am covering it again this year. It involves the organismal...
Backyard Biodiversity – I
Check out this Feralia deceptiva moth I found in the yard recently. While stuck around the house during the Covid-19 pandemic there is always the opportunity to learn more about what things live...
Three Billion Birds – It’s a Big Number
Three billion birds – It’s a big number A recent report published in the journal Science indicates that there are 3 billion less birds flying around North America today than there were in...
Making Gliders- A Continuation
Back on June 10th, 2019 I created a post on making gliders with a piece of paper, 3 Post-It notes, a few pennies, a shish kabob skewer and some 3D printed or laser...
Transit of Mercury
Monday, November 11th, 2019, marks the next time the planet Mercury can be seen crossing in front of the Sun from Earth. This event is known as a transit. In the case of Mercury,...