Prairie STEM Enjoyed an Evening of Soccer at Union Omaha Werner Park on August 31, 2022
We provided STEM Kits sponsored by Olsson Engineering, VR, robot soccer, Nathan’s Thor’s Hammer Demo with lots of magnet lessons, and Bingo, our robot dog to entertain students and families at a Union soccer game at Werner Park.
Prairie STEM is at Highlander Community Day on August 27, 2022
Prairie STEM had a booth on the top floor of the Highlander Accelerator building where we provided 5 Virtual Reality headsets to play Beat Saber as well as some other apps. Our new robotic dog, Bingo, happily greeted the community.
Second-grade students at Howard Kennedy had fun in hands-on lessons on pollination and seed dispersal in August and September.
The second graders created their own bees for the pollination lesson and observed how the body and legs of the bee are specially made to attract pollen. They flew their bees from a pollinated flower to another flower. We looked at some real pollen in the digital microscope. In the seed dispersal lesson, the students […]
STEAM Night at Spring Lake Magnet
Virtual Reality on the Oculus Prairie STEM brought virtual reality to Spring Lake with Oculus and Neurotrainer. Neurotrainer combines neuroscience and virtual reality to measure cognitive abilities, stimulate neural pathways to prime for learning, and optimize for long-term performance improvements. With Neurotrainer, you can also take virtual field trips. Learn while you are having fun! […]
Chemistry 101 Begins Soon – Registration Has Begun
Chemistry 101 September 11 & 18 Register at: https://prairiestem.mycheddarup.com Elementary Chemistry 101 (Grades 3rd-5th) 8:30-10:00 Intermediate Chemistry 101 (Grades 6th-9th) 11:00-12:30 September 11 & 18 The Mastercraft Building 1111 N 13th St. Suite 307, Omaha, NE A collection of chemistry experiments for the curious chemist. Scientific concepts come to life with fun and engaging experiments. […]
Prairie STEM’s STEM Sampler is its Second Week
Summer camps are in full swing! We are excited to host in-person camps at The Mastercraft building downtown. This week we have 17 students attending our STEM Sampler Camp. Check out what our STEM Sampler camp has been up to… This camp is three different camps in one: programming, Science Lab, and robots. In programming, […]
Prairie STEM’s World Drumming Camp Began Today
World Drumming is an inter-generational program where people can make music immediately and enjoy doing it. This program generates team-building, self-esteem, leadership, cooperation, cultural diversity, respect, while using drums to make music. When people work together as a team they become stronger and create something really amazing! Mark Irwin is a Lincoln middle school instrumental music teacher, […]
STEM Sampler Summer Camp at The Mastercraft
Today was the first day of our camp and everyone had so much fun. See our pictures below.
School of Sorcery Camp is off to a flying start
School of Sorcery Potions Class – We were sorted into our houses: Leoador named after Leonardo da Vinci, Teslathern named after Nikola Tesla, Johnsonclaw named after Katherine Johnson, and Hopperpuff named after Grace Hopper. Each of us received a vial of liquid, which changed colors once a magical indicator was added. After being sorted we went to our house workstations […]
