Seeing a total solar eclipse from anywhere on Earth is awesome, but seeing it from the path of totality is spectacular! A total solar eclipse happens when the moon passes between the Sun and the Earth and completely blocks the Sun. Getting to see the totality of he solar eclipse depends on where you are on Earth. Totality is when the moon fully blocks the Sun from our view on Earth. If you are not on the path of totality, you can still see part of the eclipse. Phoenix saw 64 percent of the total eclipse.

Since May, 2020, NASA has been inviting people all around the world to participate in their virtual guest program.

The program is free and anyone can sign up. Visit nasa.gov/virtualguest to sign up and partake in exciting missions without having to leave your home. You can also download a free NASA virtual guest passport and put the stamps you get from each mission into it.

“Oh! I just got an idea!” Students at Carden of Tucson turn their ideas into inventions. A unique program called Invention Convention challenges students to find ways to change the world. This year’s Invention Convention will be held March 8 from 12:30 to 4 p.m. at the University of Arizona ENR2.

The Invention Convention started in Connecticut in 1983, and asks students to find problems that need solutions. These solutions become brand new inventions. Educators at Carden of Tucson loved this idea and wanted to bring it to their students.

My family visited a fascinating spot in Phoenix called Arizona Falls. It is the first hydroelectric power generating station in Phoenix. Arizona Falls makes electricity from the power of water falling and spinning a turbine.

Our water comes from melting snow in the mountains, which goes into streams and lakes of the Salt River. Lakes were created from the damns SRP built along the Salt River to prevent flooding. The dams also create energy, and most importantly keep our water supply full.

Robots are cool! They are cool because they can do things that are really hard or even impossible for humans to do! Robots come in all shapes and sizes. One could look like a human and another could look like a table!

So what is a robot? A robot is a machine that can do tasks that it is programmed to do on its own. A robot can only do what a human has programmed it to do.

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 I recently got the opportunity to volunteer at a nonprofit organization called WeCareTucson. WeCareTucson refurbishes donations of old electronics and medical equipment to donate to needy people in the Tucson community.

In 2018, Boy Scouts of America made the historic decision to change its name to Scouts BSA, and allow girls to join troops. According to the Boy Scouts website, since then over 5,000 young ladies have earned Eagle Scout rank, and over 75% of those females reported that scouting had a very positive effect on their abilities to set and achieve goals.

I’ve been in Girl Scouts for four years. My Girl Scout Troop is really fun because our troop leaders are really nice and I get to do a lot of things with friends and help our community.

An AI-powered chatbot, a beach cat videogame, and a stress management website were among the projects presented at the 2023 UArizona Girls Who Code Project Showcase. The club aims to close the gender gap in technology by offering free coding classes to 6–12 graders. It’s taught by UArizona graduate and undergraduate students.

“Girls Who Code is totally worth it,” says Alysia Seery, a sixth grader at Alice Vail Middle School. “It is really fun, and the facilitators are nice.” At the Project Showcase, students were stationed at laptops and demonstrated their projects to spectators.

SARSEF is a science and engineering fair for grades Pre-K and up. My project this year was the Travel-Sized Sink. I made it because whenever my family goes to the bathrooms at the park they are dirty and never have soap.