Upcoming Programs, Workshops & Star Parties:
1st Star Party of the Year
Friday, May 9th*, 7:00 pm
This is our first Star Party of the year (rescheduled from April). As usual Leif Bahl, the Beagle astronomer, will hold a short session inside to talk about what will be visible that night and to answer any questions. Please feel free to bring your own 'scopes; we will have one or two of our 'scopes out too. *The alternate "weather date" will be Friday, June 6th at the same time.
No Reservations are required!
For more information call 816.587.9998 or e-mail clk@hms-beagle.com
Robotics Workshop
DIY: Build your Own Robot
This series of six (6) three-hour workshops will be lead by Vince Thompson of the Kansas City Robotics Society. The remaining dates are May 10th, 17th & 31st. Click HERE for a complete synopsis of this workshop series (in PDF format)
Reservations are required!
call 816.587.9998 or e-mail clk@hms-beagle.com
Yes, you knew it was coming! H.M.S. Beagle invites you to a new adventure:
The Inventor’s Lab
You are invited to participate in monthly sessions on personal ingenuity:
a cross between artistic creativity, pure science, applied science and the
type of projects you might find in Make Magazine.
Click HERE for a complete synopsis of the Inventor's Lab (in PDF format)
Reservations are required!
call 816.587.9998 or e-mail clk@hms-beagle.com
Robotics Day Camp For Students 9 - 14 Years of Age
Learn To Design and Program with LEGO Mindstorms® NXT
This is a new series of five (5) daily Day Camp sessions where participants will learn about designing and programming robots using the LEGO Mindstorms® NXT Robotics System.
Sessions will be everyday from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm, June 23rd through June 27th.
The Day Camp will be held at H.M.S. Beagle and will be led by Vince Thompson of the Kansas City Robotics Society. The emphasis will be on equal parts of fun and learning
Registration for all five sessions is $150.00 per person and that includes snacks and refreshments and a copy of the book LEGO Mindstorms: The Mayan Adventure. We are limiting the number of participants to 10. Participants will work with NXT Kit(s) provided by H.M.S. Beagle; it is not necessary to own a kit
Click HERE for a complete synopsis and schedule of this series of workshops (in PDF format)
Reservations are required.
call 816.587.9998 or e-mail clk@hms-beagle.com
Rocket Science Day
October Skies
Saturday, October 4th, 2008
This is our third annual Rocket Science Day.
From 10:00 am until 2:00 pm there will be rocket launches, demonstrations (including the static burn of a large rocket engine!), contests, give aways and exhibits. We hope to have a personal appearance by Gene Novacek, our customer, who two years ago set the world's altitude recond (>33,000 meters) for an unmanned, parachute-recovered rocket. It is possible that by the time of October Skies Gene will have accomplished his goal of launcing a rocket into space and recovering it; if so, he will be returning some items (e.g. patches and a teeshirt from our first Rocket Science Day and a piece of a meteroite that hit earth in 1947) to us that we asked him to fly into space for us.
There is no entry fee. All events are FREE. Bring your own rocket(s) to be launched by the crew from KCAR (Kansas City Area Rocketry club). If you don't have a rocket ready to go there will be tents where you can build your own rocket (or repair, as needed, one that was launched earlier in the day). We will have rocket kits, supplies and engines for sale in the store (remember, Science Club members get discounts). Come, enjoy the fun, and launch your rockets!
No reservations are required!
call 816.587.9998 or e-mail clk@hms-beagle.com