Around the Web- Links for Home Educators/Homeschoolers

April 19, 2010 By marianne Leave a Comment

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Homeschool team Free Range Robotics have won the New Zealand National VEX Robotics Championship for the second year in a row. They also scooped more than their fair share of other awards, winning the New Zealand Championship awards for Web Design (www.robotics.org.nz), the Think Award for Autonomous Programming, the Promote award for the best team video, the VEX Essay Award and the runner up for Programming Skills Award.

Their youtube channel is here


Online homeschool conference http://www.thebroadroom.co.nz/old-schoolhouse-expo/

Interesting podcast about John Holt from a Libertarian perspective John Holt: Libertarian Outsider thanks to Tarnya


Immersion Learning – Resources to bring ocean science adventures to students in grades 4–8. Immersion exposes students to ongoing scientific expeditions in an effort to ignite their interest in real discovery and learning.

http://www.immersionlearning.org/ thanks to LARA

French Website http://www.tivi5mondeplus.com/#live thanks to Margi

Homeschool Planner http://hef.org.nz/2010/free-homeschool-planner/ It’s for a free homeschooling planner that is really simple and looks perfect for anyone who has lots of ideas but never seems to get around to doing them or being organised enough. It’s called “Planned Spontaneity”. Thanks to Erin
http://hef.org.nz/2010/free-homeschool-planner/

Earthquakes for kids  http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/kids/
http://www.fema.gov/kids/quake.htm Thanks to LARA

Bible maps and timelines http://www.biblestudy.org/maps/main.html Thanks to LARA

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NEWS FROM FREE RANGE ROBOTICS

May 25, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Well done to FREE RANGE ROBOTICS!

{I watched them on TV1 Breakfast programme and they were wonderful ambassadors for home education.- ed.}

Here is a letter from the captain

Thank you everyone, for your support of our team, Free Range Robotics, in our endeavours at the World Championships in Dallas. This competition had some huge excitement. A couple of highlights were our first two games; Each of these games is played by four teams: two blue teams versus two red teams. We are paired up randomly. In both of the first two games our partners were unable to play, so we played alone against two robots and we won both games. This immediately made our standing with everyone rocket up; it really showed the world what New Zealanders and homeschoolers are made of.

Of course our biggest achievement is the programming. We are the VEX World Champions in Programming. And the second trophy we brought home was the Robot Skills 3rd place. Both of these are achievements of the whole team; the programmers and drivers couldn’t have done it without a great team behind them.

At the competition they also announced the new VEX game. “Clean Sweep”. It looks to be a lot of fun with plenty of things to think about and design for. As well as a new game, we also have a new season of scrimmages being run in New Zealand. I still don’t know all the details but it is going to be good.

If anyone wants to start a robotics team I would be very happy to come to your group and talk to you and advise you about setting up a team for competing in the 2009/2010 competition.

If you want to know more about Free Range Robotics or the competition, cruise over to our website that has lots pictures of the trip and the competition. www.robotics.org.nz  Also there is a guest book for you to leave a comment.

To contact me you can email me at patrick@softptro.co.nz 

Patrick Walmsley
Team Captain
Free Range Robotics
www.robotics.org.nz

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