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Welcome to the 2024 K12 Robotics Competition!
This year, we invited students in grades 4–12 to join the K12 Robotics League. Students worked in teams of two or three, with guidance from their instructors, and participated in two virtual qualifying rounds. Teams competed against others in their grade bands (4–6, 7–9, and 10–12) and skill levels (intermediate and advanced).
Today, we celebrate the top teams from the qualifying rounds as they compete for the national championship! Congratulations to all the students participating today—you’ve demonstrated incredible creativity, problem-solving skills, and coding expertise. Be proud of your achievements and enjoy this exciting culmination of your hard work!
Let the bot battles begin!
Date: June 19th, 2024
Time: 8:30AM ET
Location: Live-streamed on Facebook + Youtube
Hosted by: K12
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Connect with K12!
Find a school: K12.com
Facebook: facebook.com/StrideK12
Instagram: instagram.com/k12learn
TikTok: tiktok.com/@stridek12
Join us for the much-anticipated reveal of this year’s K12 Art Competition winners! Our talented students from grades K–12 have poured their creativity into traditional 2D art, digital masterpieces, and innovative AI-generated art. Now, it’s time to celebrate their incredible work and announce the winners who have impressed us all.
🗓️ Date: June 20, 2024 ⏰ Time: 5:30pm ET 📍 Location: Virtual
What to expect?
Discover the top artists in each category and grade band who will take home their share of $20,000 in prizes!
Art Showcase: A virtual gallery of the semi-finalists’ work across all categories, celebrating the diverse talents of our students.
Special Acknowledgments: A moment to appreciate all participants and the hard worK of our judges and educators.
Public Voting Recap: A look back at the public’s favorites from the AI art category.
Prize Ceremony: Witness the joy as we award the winners with their well-deserved prizes.
Stay Connected: Follow us on social @k12.student and visit our website for the latest updates and a sneak peek at some of the entries that captivated us this year! enrichment.k12.com/art-competition/
Art is a language that transcends words. It’s a form of expression that allows us to see the world through the eyes of our young creators. We can’t wait to share this experience with you!
RSVP Now and be part of this inspiring event!
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Before it was a lifestyle in the early 2000s, French emperor Napoleon had his own emo phase. Learn more about Napoleon’s emo era in this K12 Teaching Moment! #K12TeachingMoment #Challenge #TikTok #Animation
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Join Aliyah in the kitchen to witness her passion and joy for food and family. Then, gather at the table to hear about the benefits of K12-powered online school.
Aliyah loves doing her schoolwork from home and at her own pace. Aliyah’s parents appreciate that K12-powered school is preparing her for the future with a forward-thinking approach. And it’s clear they all enjoy the family vibes and culinary results.
As K12 celebrates 25 years of providing online school options for families, we’re savoring all the success K12-powered students have found through personalized, online learning. We can’t wait to see what the next 25 years will bring. Learn more at: https://bit.ly/4hEkJVY
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Happy February! It’s the month we celebrate Black history, love, and famous presidents— yet it’s the shortest of the year. Why, you ask? Find out in this K12 Teaching Moment.
Let’s travel back in time to ancient Rome. The Roman calendar year began in March and only had 304 days. That was until Roman king Numa Pompilius decided to align the calendar with the Lunar New Year, typically up to 355 days long.
Romans were superstitious of even numbers and considered them unlucky. So, King Pompilius added January and February to the calendar and changed each month to an odd number of days, either 29 or 31. But odd numbers across 12 months would sum up to an even number!
February had to be the “odd one out” with a mere 28 days.
The calendar we know today has changed since then, but February is stuck with 28 days—29 if it’s a leap year, but that’s a different episode!
25 years ago, K12 reimagined education with online learning. Today, with more than 3 million students and counting, we’re more dedicated than ever to making personalized learning accessible to everyone.
The amazing achievements of our K12 community inspire us, and we’re excited to share their stories, celebrating the incredible moments that have shaped their success.
Meet Evan, a K12-powered student and swimmer on the U.S. national team, whose success story launches our Voices series, celebrating the extraordinary achievements made possible through K12’s flexible, personalized learning. Subscribe to our social channels to stay tuned as we spotlight more inspiring journeys.
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The Little Mermaid was a tale of fancy dancing, death by sea foam, and an ocean's worth of bummers — not-so-happily ever after! Learn about the original Hans Christian Anderson classic in this K12 Teaching Moment!
If you enjoyed learning an interesting fact about the little mermaid story, you might want to watch other insightful videos in our Teachable Moments Playlist:
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Who doesn’t love a bright summer day? The June Solstice is perfect for outdoor activities, but it’s also a time to reflect on the year thus far. In this K12 Teaching Moment, join us to learn what makes the Summer Solstice so special. From the extended daylight to the worldwide celebrations, this is a joy you don’t want to miss! Still here? Drop a sun emoji in the comments, and don’t forget to let us know how you’ll be enjoying the extra sunlight! ️
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Ready to be inspired? Joseph, Izzy, and Kenyon deliver the pep talk we all need in this episode of Kids Teach. As they sit down with James, K12’s CEO, they discuss their passions and challenges in their respective athletic pursuits. From fencing to football to ballet, they find common ground in discussing what it takes to work at their highest level and build support networks that are helping them chase their dreams.
When asking James about his job, these high achievers wanted to hear how he manages his schedule and finds work–life balance—practical advice as they pursue demanding careers while still in school.
Students learn a simple technique for quantifying the amount of photosynthesis that occurs in a given period of time, using a common water plant (Elodea). They use this technique to compare the amounts of photosynthesis that occur under conditions of low and high light levels. Before they begin the experiment, however, students must come up with a well-worded hypothesis to be tested. After running the experiment, students pool their data to get a large sample size, determine the measures of central tendency of the class data, and then graph and interpret the results.
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Music: Jessica- Joey Pecoraro
Students see and learn how crystallization and inhibition occur by making sugar crystals with and without additives in a supersaturation solution, testing to see how the additives may alter crystallization, such as by improving crystal growth by more or larger crystals. After three days, students analyze the differences between the control crystals and those grown with additives, researching and attempting to deduce why certain additives blocked crystallization, showed no change or improved growth. Students relate what they learn from the rock candy experimentation to engineering drug researchers who design medicines for targeted purposes in the human body.
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Music: Valerie Plain - Rondo Brothers
Students learn about and use a right triangle to determine the width of a "pretend" river. Working in teams, they estimate of the width of the river, measure it and compare their results with classmates.
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Music: Jazz Apricot
The Teach Engineering Digital Library is an educational resource featuring standards-aligned, design-rich curricula to help educators foster design thinking.
Put the ‘E’ in STEM by making applied science, technology, and math come alive through engineering design and design thinking.
In this activity, students simulate the equal and unequal distribution of our renewable resources. Also, they consider the impact of our increasing population upon these resources and how engineers develop technologies to create resources.
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Music: Cosmos- Silent Partner
Students use a recipe to prepare a hydrogel gummy snack, which has a similar consistency to that found in a Haribo® gummy product. They must convert the juice and gelatin-based recipe from US customary units to metric units with dimensional analysis conversion. After unit conversion, teams are given different gelatin quantities and design their gummy snacks. Once the candies have solidified, student groups compare the gummy snacks are for viscosity and taste. After a taste test, teams reflect on their experiment and brainstorm ways to iterate a better gummy recipe.
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Music: Whatdafunk - Audionautix
Reduce, reuse, recycle—engineer! In this activity that focuses on environmental awareness, students research and read books about various items and buildings made from recycled or reused materials. They then plan, design, and construct a storage space for an individual snack using the engineering design process. They consider key elements such as temperature control, budget, materials, and size.
This engineering curriculum aligns to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
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Music: Epidermis the Sun Really Shines
In this activity, students design and create a slide that will get Jack away from the Giant as fast as possible. Using the engineering design process, students identify the problem, brainstorm solutions, plan a design, create and test a prototype, and make improvements to help Jack escape the Giant!
This engineering curriculum aligns to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
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music - Trancer
Students conduct a research-based activity to explore, graph, and evaluate the speed of slime, or how far and at what rate slime stretches. During the activity, the students review the major concepts of graphing speed by stretching gum or silly putty. After reviewing how to create and read speed on a graph, students create a “super-stretchy” slime sample. Students conduct tensile tests to determine the fastest speed the slime can stretch without snapping. Students analyze the slime stretching data by compiling it in a speed graph using Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel. Lastly, students communicate their findings through a poster presentation
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Music: Daily Beetle - Kevin MacLeod
Students are tasked with designing a special type of hockey stick for a sled hockey team—a sport designed for individuals with physical disabilities to play ice hockey. Using the engineering design process, students act as material engineers to create durable hockey sticks using a variety of materials. The stick designs will contain different interior structures that can hold up during flexure (or bending) tests. Following flexure testing, the students can use their results to iterate upon their design and create a second stick.
This engineering curriculum aligns to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
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Music: Cold Funk Funkorama
In this activity, students learn about the engineering design process and use it to solve a design problem involving detergent and dirty clothes. The problem presented is a spot on a favorite shirt while on a camping trip. Students move through the engineering design process, as they design, build, and test a prototype of a portable washing machine
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Music: Fig Leaf Rag - Kevin MacLeod
