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Sunday, Mar. 21, 2010
A Peek Inside The Discovery Playhouse
Posted Friday, March 19, at 9:42 PM
Families from across the four state region will no longer have to travel to Saint Louis or even Nashville to experience a hands-on children's museum. After years of hard work, The Discovery Playhouse is scheduled to open in a few weeks at 502 Broadway in Cape Girardeau.

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Local Science Fair Explodes with Projects
Posted Tuesday, March 9, at 3:38 PM

More than 400 students from across southeast Missouri showed off their science skills at the 54th SEMO Regional Science Fair in Cape Girardeau. That's 72 more students than last year. Student science fair projects ranged from "Does Chewing Gum Improve Memory?" to "Is it Safe to Reuse the same Drinking Bottle Over and Over?" The top two winners will go to the International Science and Engineering Fair in San Jose, California. ...

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Home School Team Takes Home the Big Award at the SEMO FTC
Posted Saturday, February 27, at 8:00 PM

Students from throughout southeast Missouri showed off their robot building skills at the first ever regional FIRST Tech Challenge at Southeast Missouri State University. More than thirty local high school teams competed at the competition. The FIRST Tech Challenge offers high-school students the chance to develop strategy and build robots based on sound engineering principles. ...

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Cape Attacked By Student Built Robots
Posted Saturday, February 27, at 2:36 PM

The FIRST Tech Challenge is going on right now at Southeast Missouri State University. The event is a mid-level robotics competition for middle and high-school students. It offers the traditional challenge of a FIRST robotics competition, but with more accessible and affordable robotics. Check back for pictures, video, and the results...

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Southeast Missouri Robot Competition
Posted Saturday, February 20, at 8:20 AM

More than 20 schools from across southeast Missouri will compete the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) on Saturday, Februrary 27, 2010 from 7:30 AM to 5:00 PM at the Student Rec Center on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University. The event is a mid-level robotics competition for middle and high-school students. ...

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Olympic Science
Posted Monday, February 15, at 8:52 AM

Educators from across the globe are using the Winter Olympics to help teach hands-on science. The reason, athletes are applying science to gain an edge over the competition. Watch WPSD Local 6 Today on Monday, February 22nd between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m. to see how you can use the Winter Olympics as teachable moments. In the meantime go to http://www.hookedonscience.org/olympicscience.html for Olympic science experiments...

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Silly Saturday
Posted Saturday, February 13, at 10:48 PM

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Making a Difference...
Posted Tuesday, February 2, at 8:06 AM

The Hooked on Science team recently surveyed hundreds of educators from across the four state region to see if the Hooked on Science school program is inspiring students to be inquisitive about the world around them and to develop a long-term interest in science. ...

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It turns out forecasters don't control the weather...
Posted Friday, January 29, at 9:46 AM

It turns out forecasters don't control the weather...and this winter storm proves my point. Forecasting models continue to disagree on the timing and snowfall amounts with this weather system. Bottom line, snow is hard to forecast. Right now, the four state region will see the best accumulation of snow tonight. Here's what I'm expecting when it comes to snowfall totals...

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Expected Snow Totals...
Posted Thursday, January 28, at 8:08 AM

A big winter storm is scheduled to push into the four state region tonight. Forecasting models continue to argue about the arrival and snowfall totals. I'm thinking the storm will arrive after 12 a.m. on Friday and will give us a good dose of snow. Here's what I'm thinking when it comes to snowfall totals...

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Jason Lindsey is an award winning Outreach Science Educator for Hooked on Science. Each year Lindsey performs science experiments at more than a hundred schools and community events. Lindsey's science segment "Hooked on Science" airs on television stations across America and has earned awards for outstanding science coverage.