http://www.isek.iastate.edu Iowa State Engineering Kids Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:10:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Teams registered for the 2008 FIRST LEGO League season will get to see all the details of this year's challenge, Climate Connections, this Friday! For anyone interested, you can check out the details and learn how to get involved at www.firstlegoleague.org -- there is still time to register for FLL and Jr.FLL, so ... http://www.isek.iastate.edu/home/blog/2008/09/02/fll-season-opens-sept-5/ In spite of the rainy weather, our Beginner Camp is still on for 6/12 & 6/13. Please make sure to monitor your own route to Ames/campus for road closures and travel safety through the Iowa DOT website or by phoning 511 on your cell phone.   http://www.isek.iastate.edu/home/blog/2008/06/11/camp-for-june-12-13-still-on/ Through a gift to FIRST of over $1.3 million, Rockwell Collins has teamed with FIRST and ISU to promote FLL and FTC across Iowa.  This exciting news allows FIRST programming to reach even more students and spread that engineering fever!  We encourage you to look under the FLL tab and clicking ... http://www.isek.iastate.edu/home/blog/2008/04/30/rockwell-collins-grants-for-iowa-fll-teams/ We just opened registration for the 2008 ISEK summer camps! Head over to the Camp page to sign up. We expect that camps will fill up fast, so be sure to sign up promptly. For previous year's participants, we will have some of last year's "favorite" activities ... http://www.isek.iastate.edu/home/blog/2008/04/09/camp-registration-is-open/ If your child is interested in participating in an ISEK engineering summer camp, save the date now! We've posted the schedule of our camp offerings for this summer on the Camps page. Registration for ISEK summer camps opens on April 9, so be sure to register promptly. http://www.isek.iastate.edu/home/blog/2008/03/24/isek-summer-camp-dates-announced/ FIRST is desperately in need of JUDGES for World Festival! Remember, this is the international competition of FLL teams. Any interested parties should contact Linda Hammond at lhammond@usfirst.org or 1-800-871-8326 x457. Music store, of all genres, download it in mp3. http://www.isek.iastate.edu/home/blog/2008/03/13/fll-world-festival-judges-needed/ We will again plan to offer Iowa State Engineering Kids Summer Camps -- we will plan to post details on those camps in early March. Camps are held on the ISU campus and there are different opportunities available. Check out the camps tab as updates come available. http://www.isek.iastate.edu/home/blog/2008/02/05/summer-camps/ Well folks, this is it. Today, Jan. 19, is THE DAY of the Iowa FLL Championship. If you're around Ames, come on down and check it out in person! We're in Howe and Hoover Halls on the Iowa State University campus. If you aren't around Ames, ... http://www.isek.iastate.edu/home/blog/2008/01/19/its-championship-time/ Just to make things easy for teams, fans, parents & spectators, we thought we'd put up a quick link on the homepage to the Important Documents page. You can go here to check out the schedule & program, as well as download any important files you still need to ... http://www.isek.iastate.edu/home/blog/2008/01/16/championship-important-documents/ Hey Teams! We'll be webcasting the Iowa FLL Championship again this year, be sure to check it out! You'll need the latest copy of Adobe Flash to watch it, same as last year. The address for the webcast is below - give it to your family and friends early ... http://www.isek.iastate.edu/home/blog/2007/12/17/fll-championship-webcast-2/