The Transit of Venus and a Space Shuttle

GeekMom, the blog I helped found and co-edit, has moved to Wired.com, where things are hopping! I've been so busy that science blogging has taken a back seat. But here's a quick update on some cool science things we've been doing.

Above, I was lucky enough to be in New York City when the Space Shuttle Enterprise sailed from Long Island to New Jersey and onward to its final resting place on the Intrepid Museum in Manhattan. I wrote a bit more about the exciting event in a post on GeekMom.

And on June 5, the family pulled out the Galileoscope to view the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. Although it was cloudy most of the day, the skies did open long enough to let us project this great view of the disk of Venus against the sun. Note the sunspots as well.

I'll continue to cross-post here, but for timely news about our science goings-on, please visit GeekMom! And if you're interested in news about robotics (and my forthcoming activity book), stop by the Amazing Robotics Projects Facebook page!

Still Working on Robotics...

Where have we been? Still watching The Joy of Science, and still working on the Robotics book and various accessories, such as a Teaching Guide.

If you'd like to see what we're up to during this busy time, come visit my Robotics Facebook Fan page (you don't have to be a member of Facebook to see it) and GeekMom, now on Wired.com!

And you can see photos and videos of many of our robotics projects and read about my programs for schools, libraries and museums on my website Crafts for Learning.

We've Been Building Robots...

If you've been wondering where we went, the past few months have been spent developing projects for two book projects. One is an activity book for ages 9-12 about Robotics. You can see some of them on the Facebook fan page I created. (A companion blog is forthcoming.)

The other book is a joint project with the other editors of GeekMom! I'll post more news of that as it develops.