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Jul 5, 2016

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Creativity & Youthfulness Intertwined

Three pipe cleaners. 10 minutes. What could you invent?

This was the first task given to the 4th and 5th grade campers at TAG camp last week. They had all signed up for “Invention Convention”–a class designed for students to think outside of the box individually and collaboratively to build and later present inventions created with recycled material.

Jun 28, 2016

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The Infamous Garage

From my first day at Saturday Academy only two weeks ago, I started hearing rumors of a mysterious and terrifying place. These rumors, along with sly comments on the hours the interns would spend in this dark (and potentially smelly?) place made my toes curl.

Jun 10, 2016

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Reflections from a Saturday Academy Instructor

I was teaching a SA2U LEGO Robotics class in a North Portland elementary school. The students in my class today were marveling over my Bluetooth mouse and how far it could get from my computer and still work. I told them there was an famous scientist who created a technology that made Bluetooth work and asked them what they thought the scientist looked like.

“Um, he probably has a beard,” they guessed.

Feb 4, 2016

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ASE Intern takes his research from Corvallis to Stockholm

Matthew Sundberg was a 2015 ASE Intern as a high school sophomore. Now, less than a year later, he is the first author on a paper accepted by the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). How did he make the journey from his internship at an Oregon State University lab to the 2016 IRCA conference in Stockholm, Sweden? We spoke with Matthew to learn more.