The final badge in the set begins with the second part of the Engineering Design Process. The badges are set up so that they build on each other so you can not really complete badge 3 without first completing badges 1 and 2. Just as with the Brownie Robotics Badge 3, t...

Badge 3 begins with the final part of the Engineering Design Process, sharing your design. 

Now, that the girls have plans, designed, tested and improved their robot design it is time for them to share their final design with the troop through a presentation....

Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) made some serious press over the summer when they announced the release of the new STEM based badges. I was super excited to get my hands on them, only to be disappointed  to learn that the badge requirement booklets hadn't been released...

I was first introduced to the BreakoutEDU concept by a colleague this past fall. I have to say, I am enamored with them. I find myself creating Breakout games for a number of units and disciplines! If you are unfamiliar with the BreakoutEDU concept, it is based off esc...

I recently have become enamored with ESRIs Story Maps. I have always been a mapper. I conducted many areas of  geologic mapping as an undergrad and worked with creating GIS maps as a consulting geologist. I even created a GIS based map of our maple trees for our "maple...

One of my many hobbies is genealogy. I have been researching my family tree since 2001 ans am the self professed family historian for both my and my husbands families. In the last two years,  I expanded my research to my husband's family lines. My husband is Irish and...