Camp Invention gives kids chance to get practical science knowledge

WEBVTT SHELDON DUTES TAKES US TO THEIR SUMMER INVENTION CAMP. >> THESE ROBOTIC DOGS ARE MORE THAN JUST A TOY. THEY’RE GIVING THESE SIX AND SEVEN-YEAR-OLDS A CHANCE TO GET PRACTICAL SCIENCE KNOWLEDGE. >> THANK YOU. >> STUDENTS AT WOODLANDS CHARTER SCHOOL …
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Elyria School District’s Camp Invention comes back for its third year

Young minds of Elyria City School District students who will attend grades 1-6 were tested with science, technology and engineering at the week long summer camp, Camp Invention. Kathy Koepp, coordinator of the camp and teaching and learning coordinator for …
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Annual summer STEM camp inspires creation, invention

Paper, plastic and other recyclables littered the floor of one Gretna Elementary School classroom last week. Though it may have looked chaotic to outsiders, there was a method to its madness, as 105 Gretna area children worked from the classroom …
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Letter: This needs to be Silicon Valley’s next big invention

Re: “On Father’s Day, become a mentor for foster kids” (Opinion section, June 15): My late husband, Sam Broydo, who came to this country as an immigrant 50 years ago, was a brilliant scientist with an incredible and rewarding career in the high …
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Was Autism a Nazi Invention?

ASPERGER’S CHILDREN The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna By Edith Sheffer Illustrated. 320 pp. W.W. Norton & Company. $ 27.95. In February 1981, a British psychiatrist named Lorna Wing published an academic paper highlighting a 1944 clinical account of …
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