AboutStop Motion Animation Workshop Has Awe Inspiring Results
The world has not seen such exceptional stop motion animation since the dawn of time. Last week’s stop motion workshop has produced some stellar results. This won’t be the last time we do a technology workshop on video production and animation so be sure to keep an eye on our Teen Calendar for more events. [...]
Database of the Month: Britannica Encyclopedia
You may have noticed we added a whole batch of new electronic resources links to our site on July 1st. If you haven’t been to the Electronic Resources page for awhile, you might want to check it out! One of the exciting new additions is a whole set of online reference tools like Encyclopedia Britannica. [...]
Staff Pick: Team Human by J. Larbalestier and S.R. Brennan
Vampire fiction — especially YA vampire fiction — has a lot of weird inconsistencies. There’s that whole issue of how to deal with the sun. (Sunscreen, sparkle, magic rings, live in Seattle?) There’s the incomprehensible vampire that’s 100+ years old attending high school phenomenon. And, well, it is about time someone turned the genre on [...]
Seven Minutes of Terror – NASA’s Mars Mission
Have you heard about it? We have another billion dollar rover heading towards Mars right now. On August 5th, it will be plummeting toward the planet going thousands of miles an hour and it will have to land, of its own accord, without shattering to pieces. From the top of the atmosphere to Mars’ surface, it [...]
Hungry for More Hunger Games?
You know that feeling you get when you finish a really amazing book series? You didn’t want the book to end but you had to know how it would. You just want to bask in … well, more of that book. It sucks a bit, doesn’t it? If you’re finishing up the Hunger Games trilogy [...]
