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Books & Bots Curriculum Pairs Robots and Reading for Pre-K through 5th Students
Nevada Robotics is developing innovative literacy-based curriculum that incorporates robots as learning tools to teach Nevada Content Standards in ELA, math, and computer science. Lessons are developed based on themes in popular storybooks and include hands-on...
Super Powered: FIRST Lego League
FIRST Nevada is hosting a free workshop for parents and teachers looking to start their very own FLL Team. Learn the basics of starting a team from materials you need to how to get funds for your activities! Contact Patti Poston to register at...
VEX IQ Invitational Scrimmage at Sparks Middle School
Sparks Middle School is hosting a Robotics Scrimmage for VEX IQ on April 30th, 2022. They plan to have several game fields up and running! Students and parents are both invited. If you are interested in attending please email Linda at LKoyen@washoeschools.net.
Rising Temperatures Will Significantly Reduce Streamflow in the Upper Colorado River Basin As Groundwater Levels Fall, New Research Shows
Climate change will dramatically impact streamflow and its contributions to the Colorado River by increasing forest water use and reducing groundwater levels, new study finds. Researchers from Desert Research Institute (DRI), USGS, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory teamed up for the new study, published May 23 in Nature Water.
Reno-Sparks Heat Mapping Project Releases Detailed Urban Heat Data
The summer 2024 data collection effort provides community members, legislators, and scientists with detailed maps of the region’s urban heat island. Reno, Nev. (January 13, 2025) – The Reno-Sparks Heat mapping project team is thrilled to announce the successful...
Ice patches on Beartooth Plateau reveal how ancient landscape differed from today’s
Reno, Nev. (January 15, 2025) - DRI scientists Joe McConnell and Nathan Chellman co-authored a new study that examines a 6,000-year-old forest preserved in a Rocky Mountain ice patch. The research, which was led by the USGS and Montana State University, used the...
New Climate Projections Released for Tribal Lands
Detailed future projections for 633 tribal areas focus on agricultural climate variables By Kelsey Fitzgerald, Native Climate Earth’s climate future is often discussed in terms of degrees of warming, but for farmers and ranchers, temperature is not the only...
Nell J. Redfield Foundation Supports Hands-On Computer Science, Math, and Literacy Classroom Lessons Through DRI’s Nevada Robotics
The Nell J. Redfield Foundation recently made a three-year commitment to support Nevada Robotics’ Books and Bots Teacher Trainings which will provide classroom lessons in Pre-Kindergarten through fifth grade classrooms using robots and storybooks. Thanks...
A New Tool Can Help Protect California and Nevada Communities from Floods While Preserving Their Water Supply
DRI’s Anne Heggli is partnering with the National Weather Service to understand flood risk from rain-on-snow storms in real-time, protecting communities and enabling water conservation throughout Nevada and California.
DRI Invites Nevada Families to Science and Literacy Events for Pre-K Students
DRI’s STEM Education Program is holding free events focused on developing literacy through engaging science activities for Pre-K children 5 and younger throughout Nevada. Through hands-on experiments, story time, and interactive games, the events will bring ecology and electricity to life for the whole family. Each child will also receive free books to take home (while supplies last).
Meet Tyler Doane
Tyler Doane, Ph.D., started in May 2024 as Assistant Research Professor in the Division of Hydrologic Sciences. He works remotely from Cleveland, Ohio, where his wife teaches bioethics at Case Western Reserve University’s medical school. Doane is a geomorphologist who received his Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University before completing a postdoctoral position at Indiana University, Bloomington. In the this Behind the Science interview, Doane talks about his interest in applying math to describe scientific phenomena, his interest in embracing noise and chaos to understand Earth systems, and his favorite method for coming up with new research questions.
Ray of Sunshine Ministry Uses Green Boxes to Bring STEM Education to Foster Children and Homeschool Families
Tiffany Morales, Founder and President of Ray of Sunshine Ministry, is bringing STEM education to foster children and homeschool students in Southern Nevada. This year, Ray of Sunshine is utilizing DRI STEM Education Program’s Green Boxes to provide STEM and robotics programs to these groups. Morales said, “With DRI’s service, we’re able to provide excellent robotics programs to homeschool groups and foster care facilities, absolutely free of cost to us and to them.”
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