NICE Volume 4, No. 2, Spring 2013

NICE Volume 4, No. 1, Winter 2013

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4-H eco-bot challenge!

4-H Eco-Bot Challenge, National Science Experiment, Glenn Duncan Elementary: Reno, NV.

In this year's experiment, the 4-H Eco-Bot Challenge, youth from across the country enhanced their engineering skills by learning to think like a robotics engineer, assembling their own robots, also known as Eco-bots, and control surfaces in order to manage an environmental clean-up. At Glenn Duncan Elementary in Reno 5th graders tested the interaction between the Eco-Bot’s environmental engineering design features and various control surface configurations to determine the most effective environmental clean-up solution for a simulated toxic spill. Please visit http://www.4-h.org/4-h-national-youth-science-day/science-experiments-projects/robotics-engineering-environmental-clean-up-4-h-eco-bot-challenge-2012/ to learn more.

NICE Volume 3, No. 2, Fall 2012

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UNR FIELD DAY, September 8, 2012 @ THE NEW GREENHOUSES ON VALLEY ROAD!

Susan Howe and Jamie Roice of the Nevada Radon Education Program handed out free test kits. 91 kits were given out!!!

Sarah Chvilicek and Samantha Shoupe of the Nevada 4-H Program experimented with solar radiation and light. Kids used color changing beads to make bracelets they could take home with them.

Ed Smith and Sonya Sistare of the Living With Fire Program had their "ember house" on hand to teach kids and their parents about the potential fire dangers to their homes. Kids are instructed to hit the house with "embers" in the spots where they are most likely to burn (the orange areas).

Heidi Kratsch and a group of Master Gardener's held a zucchini growing competition to see who could squash the record!

NICE Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2012

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