STEAM Girls Camp

Middle School is Awesome

Summer SEEK Program

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The Summer Engineering Experience for Kids (SEEK) is a FREE three-week program sponsored by the National Society of Black Engineers in which college mentors who are majoring in STEM fields teach elementary students through hands-on learning opportunities.

This program takes place at a variety of schools nationwide and is locally hosted by Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School in West Oakland. At some sites the program is girls only; in Oakland it’s co-ed and begins enrollment in springtime. Check the Oakland Unified School District website or call the school directly for details. Here’s some recent press about the program.

Posting videos is fun

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You can embed a video on your WordPress Page by just pasting a link to a video. All you have to do is copy the link into your ‘visual’ composer on WordPress like this:

But, if you have any other text on the same line as your video link – the video won’t embed. It will only show up as a link, like this. WordPress gets confused and doesn’t see it as a video.

xyz     https://vimeo.com/65091923

You can also make some text link to the video. You do this by selecting the text, clicking on the “link” picture at the top, and then pasting your video link into the box that pops up.

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Wednesday Recap

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Today started with some lego construction with CB and Mariah in the morning and then moved to a hands on writing/blogging exercise led by Valerie. These led to some really great blog posts like this one about legos and this one about the uni-cat (a distant cousin of both the uni-mermaid and the uni-tato).

After a lovely sandwich lunch with cucumber salad, we learned all about how bees & butterflies help Oakland’s parks and gardens from Tora and Terry of the Pollinator Posse. Then Bacilia showed us samples of her work as a professional architect.

As always, our day ended with some of us working on the blog, while others built and destroyed in Minecraft.

See you tomorrow!