2018 EDU: NERDs of the north: Nerd is a four-letter word with a six-figure salary. Kitely virtual site

NERDs of the north:   
Nerd is a four-letter word 
with a six-figure salary

NERDs are welcome in OpenSim.   Here a group of self-confessed NERDs moves into Kitely with an educational world (under development).   

• Watch on YouTube
• 'Nerds of the North' heads to World Robotics Competition
• Alaska's only FIRST Robotics Competition (FTC) team, number 568, is in its 15th year.   

OpenSim Welcomes NERDs 

• Some of us were NERDs before NERDing was cool.  
• Actually, it was NERDs and ex-NERDs that built and are building OpenSim. 

Go there

• Dimond High Biology and Engineering VR Lab 
• Closed to HG.  In Kitely: 
• hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/AKFIRSTROBOTICSLAB/126/44/24
• Web link

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AKFIRSTROBOTICSLAB in Kitely

• Virtual Presence of Dimond Engineering Academy 
• and the FIRST Robotics Competition Team 568
• as well as FTC Teams from around the state.
• FIRST means: For Inspiration & Recognition of Science & Technology
• FIRST Robotics Competition Team Registration is Now Open!
• Core robot functionality for First Robotics Competition team 568 - Nerds of the North
• Dimond High School
• Dimond High School (Wikipedia)

 Dimond High Biology 

and Engineering VR Lab

• Arrival point
• This place might sometimes be used in Kitely's upcoming private grids
• Kitely will offer private grids with dedicated login pages
• It offers instructional posters on the scientific method and biology

 Cell biology

 Major parts of a cell
Click image to enlarge

 The scientific method

• The scientific method

 Flowchart for 

the scientific method

• Flowchart for the scientific method (search)

Curiosity Rover (Mars) 

• Curiosity Rover

 Problems to be solved 

• Problem Solving - Lesson - TeachEngineering

 The yellow things are sticky notes

Related 

• Challenge-based education and self-managed learning: on the same team!
• Learn by challenge in virtual worlds: Games, projects, Maker Model
• We are wired to innovate. Do schools teach creativity?
• Educator's challenge: Provide planning template(s) for project-based learning
• Challenge: Hero's Journey. Game. Learning. Schools. Can you connect these?
• Virtual worlds can host challenge-based learning  
• CoSpaces: Virtual worlds for grade school. Maker movement again  
• The Maker Movement and the potential of virtual worlds

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