Feels Like the First Time: Reliving My School Choir Days
GeekMom Sarah rocks out and geeks out as a tour stop from Foreigner, along with their outreach efforts for music education, rekindles memories of her days in the school choir.
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Tag: Maine
Geeky States of America: Maine’s Scale Model of Planet Earth
Explore the Earth in Maine, from a view that can’t be beat: DeLorme’s large scale replica of our planet.
Continue ReadingSouthern Maine Family Game Festival
If you feel like playing games all day and video game all night, you might want to be in Maine on November 2.
Continue ReadingThe Game Loft Needs Your Help
A teen center called The Game Loft that teaches Dungeons & Dragons as a path towards leadership, socialization and community service needs the help of the geek community. In tiny Belfast, Maine, you’ll find this unique after-school program for middle …
Continue ReadingIPads in the Classroom: A Case Study in Auburn, Maine – Part One
My son turned two this fall. By the time he starts kindergarten in three years’ time, I have no idea how he will be learning. The first computer I was exposed to in elementary school used 5 ¼-inch floppy discs; I’m not even sure he’ll be using a computer by then. Classrooms around the country […]
Continue ReadingTaking Mentos and Coke Zero up a Notch
Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz of Maine have done it again. After captivating the internet five years ago with colorful displays created from Diet Coke and Mentos, they have since kicked it up a notch. Using 54 bottles of Coke Zero and 324 pieces of Mentos they have created a single-passenger rocket car. After a previous attempt […]
Continue ReadingMaine-Made Zombie Movie
If you happen to be in Biddeford, Maine on October 22nd at 6 pm, and if you happen to be concerned about the coming Zombie Apocalypse, then I might suggest that you head to Bull Moose in Sanford to meet the cast and crew of the movie 2. Filmed in Biddeford in 2007, the film tells […]
Continue ReadingBanned Books Week: Censorship in Maine
Years ago, when living under a political administration that I didn’t much care for I read, just by chance, It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis. I was haunted by his rhetoric and by the fragility of the democracy he depicted. Now whenever I find myself in a discussion of atrocities, political or otherwise, I find myself looking in my own backyard and […]
Continue ReadingA Mainer’s Visit From Hurricane Irene
In Maine we prepare for power outages in the winter, whether we get 12 inches of snow, or an ice storm that candy coats everything. We stock up on batteries, canned food and frozen goods. Yes, you heard me, frozen goods: if the power goes out we can throw it in the snow bank, nature’s […]
Continue ReadingGet Thee to a Book Sale
I am utterly alarmed that our local Scholastic Book Fair warehouse was having it’s biggest sale of the year and I almost missed it. Never mind the fact that I need to build an extension onto my home to house all my current books, we’re talking 80% off here. Book sales are a great way […]
Continue ReadingSnowed in? Maybe You’ll Get Cabin Fever
Overview: Snowed in this week? Here’s a cute little game from Maine called Cabin Fever—it might not keep you warm but you can while away the hours pretending to dig out of your cabin. Cabin Fever won the “Game of …
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