Blog of Adventure in Science at Lockheed Martin, Rockville, MD 20850
The AIS Parent's Day for officially registered students is on Sat Mar 12 at NIST
AIS-LM will provide students who are not formally registered with AIS or who are unable to present at NIST an opportunity on Sat Mar 5 at LM
Deadline for submission of forms is Sunday Feb 7.
If you have left the program:
· Ignore this email
· No need to fill out forms
· No need to respond!!
Hello
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL
Hope you all are doing well.
Hope you all are working with your children on the Parent's day projects-if not, please start them thinking.
This is being held because you folks wanted to come- not sure if the other sites are having sessions
We do have AIS tomorrow. We have four (4) great sessions for you.
1. Simple Machines-By popular demand –this is being brought back. Learn about how to lift heavy weights easily-how in the olden days, Greeks, Romans, Arabs built giant things. This will give you great ideas on how to simplify difficult problems-an Engineer or a scientist
2. Exercises for the Body- Learn through Yoga, how you work out different parts of the body and how each exercise helps in different ways. Taught by expert practitioners, this is a fun filled challenge-for Adults versus kids!
3. Electricity and Electromagnetism- Learn all about electricity, what is electric current, how electrons travel, what is an electric motor, what are coils, how and why you get an electric shock(!!), what are magnets and what the combination of electricity and magnetism is called and its uses. Taught by an experienced Engineer, this is "Guaranteed" to make you smarter and a good Electrical Engineer if you go on to study these
4. Planes and Aerodynamics- Learn all about Airplanes, how they stay up, how they can come down –land carefully or CRASH(!!), how some planes can fly upside down without the pilots and passengers falling down,how some planes can perform amazing actions in air, maybe how some planes can fly as fast as sound, what is the speed of sound - -Become an Aerospace Engineer!!
Cheers
Raj Ragahavan
1. The 2nd Saturday in MARCH (2016) is PARENT's DAY-Last day of AIS for this session and is HELD AT NIST.
2. Parent's day is a Program where children from ALL the sites convene to present projects they have been working on from January
3. Projects presentations last from about 5 to 15 minutes-Average presentations so far have lasted about 10 minutes for our site kids.
4. Your children either perform an experiment, read up on some topic and write things down (PLEASE ENCOURAGE THEM NOT TO COPY VERBATIM FROM GOOGLE or OTHER SITES) in a reasonably cogent order.
5. We will send you the topics from previous years (as an example)
6. Presentation charts can be Power Point/Word slides-NO FANCY Programs OR APPLICATIONS will be installed on the computers. PLEASE Keep it simple.
7. They can bring Display Boards to Show what they did-but after their presentations.
8. If they want to they can work with a sibling or friend (from LM or other sites)
9. As Parents and Guardians, you are requested NOT to do their presentations for them BUT ENCOURAGED to guide them-give tips/ideas. Your kids ARE smart-they are lots more capable than they are given credit for!!
1. Presentations at NIST are for those that formally registered on the web site or later and paid money to AIS
2. For those that registered later with me, your kids will present at Lockheed Martin on the first Saturday in March
3. For those folks that have other activities on the second Saturday and cannot have their kids present, please let me know and your kids can present at LM on the first Saturday in March.
4. In January/early February time frame we will send out more guidance and request for information-nothing complicated but what we need for badges to enter NIST/arrival times etc-PLEASE WAIT FOR THIS TILL JANUARY
5. All kids that do a presentation (at either place), will receive a certificate.
6. We would like ALL the children to do a Presentation-hence we NEED you to Encourage them (AND SPEND A Little TIME with them)
ALL
PLEASE READ THROUGH
1. The 2nd Saturday in MARCH (2016) is PARENT's DAY-Last day of AIS for this session and is HELD AT NIST.
2. Parent's day is a Program where children from ALL the sites convene to present projects they have been working on from January
3. Projects presentations last from about 5 to 15 minutes-Average presentations so far have lasted about 10 minutes for our site kids.
4. Your children either perform an experiment, read up on some topic and write things down (PLEASE ENCOURAGE THEM NOT TO COPY VERBATIM FROM GOOGLE or OTHER SITES) in a reasonably cogent order.
5. We will send you the topics from previous years (as an example)
6. Presentation charts can be Power Point/Word slides-NO FANCY Programs OR APPLICATIONS will be installed on the computers. PLEASE Keep it simple.
7. They can bring Display Boards to Show what they did-but after their presentations.
8. If they want to they can work with a sibling or friend (from LM or other sites)
9. As Parents and Guardians, you are requested NOT to do their presentations for them BUT ENCOURAGED to guide them-give tips/ideas. Your kids ARE smart-they are lots more capable than they are given credit for!!
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
1. Presentations at NIST are for those that formally registered on the web site or later and paid money to AIS
2. For those that registered later with me, your kids will present at Lockheed Martin on the first Saturday in March
3. For those folks that have other activities on the second Saturday and cannot have their kids present, please let me know and your kids can present at LM on the first Saturday in March.
4. In January/early February time frame we will send out more guidance and request for information-nothing complicated but what we need for badges to enter NIST/arrival times etc-PLEASE WAIT FOR THIS TILL JANUARY
5. All kids that do a presentation (at either place), will receive a certificate.
6. We would like ALL the children to do a Presentation-hence we NEED you to Encourage them (AND SPEND A Little TIME with them)
We will have four sessions this Saturday
Each is an interesting session-
1. LEDs-Making Light the right Way-What are LEDs, how do they shine, how do they create light, why do they, do they save/waste energy/are they better than normal light bulbs-Why/Why not - - -
2. WANT to be a SPY or a SPY CATCHER – Learn about how to hide messages, create secret notes, how to figure out what a note says, how many ways can you hide a message, what do you use to create a message -
3. Want to Be a Computer WIZ – Learn about how to put a computer together from parts AND MAKE it work!! Once you do it, you can go home and make your own computer (with a few parts your parents can get you)
4. Plants, Grains, Roots and Herbs- Learn all about the varieties of plants, what earth provides, where are they found, what do you need to do to make it grow-FROM AN EXPERT
PLEASE BRING AN ID. As usual after 8:15 AM. Please remember-I expect parents to stay and if both parents come your kids will be really happy-do it for them if NOT for me!!
Those of you who volunteered to teach but "forgot" to send me an email, please let me know this Saturday.
Cheers
