November 2010

First Lego League Events In and Around the Capital Region

After two months of intense planning, field trips, research, brainstorming, and computer programing, we’re nearly all set to compete at the First Lego League Tournament this weekend in Utica, NY. The team that I coach, the Crash Test Dummies, will reveal their solution to a Body Forward challenge that asks them to solve a medical [...]

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Giving It Away with Giveaways

by Sandra Foyt

If you have been following Albany Kid on Facebook, then you already know that the Kids Fun Plaza blog is hosting a Mommy and Me Blog Hop. It’s a chance to meet mommy bloggers in the Capital Region, and for one lucky winner, it’s a chance to win a $50 Visa Card. You don’t even [...]

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Family Event Listings and Other Fun Things To Do with Kids In The Capital Region

by Sandra Foyt

Finding fun things to do with kids in Albany and beyond is easy, but it didn’t used to be that way. Not that long ago, when we moved to the Capital Region with a toddler, the web wasn’t what it is now. Back then, the only listings of family events were those in the local newspapers, one or [...]

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Take the Kids to See Shoe Art in Albany

by Sandra Foyt

Ours is not a high brow family. My kids don’t usually volunteer to attend classical concerts or art exhibits, but with the right incentive they will attend willingly. Shoe art exhibits are usually sufficient draw as silly, fun, whimsical shoes easily capture their imagination. Given that, I have been wondering why we left the Albany [...]

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How to Find Homeschoolers in the Capital Region

by Sandra Foyt

Since I homeschooled my younger child, and I wrote about it onThe Journey Mom, every once in a while I receive an email asking how to find homeschool groups in the Capital Region. Sometimes it’s a query from a parent who is considering homeschooling, and sometimes it’s a request from a mom who is already [...]

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Field Trip to an Operating Room at St. Peter’s Hospital

by Sandra Foyt

One of the many benefits of being married to an awesome ear surgeon is that when our First Lego League (FLL) team decided that they wanted to tackle the Body Forward Engineering Meets Medicine project, he was able to arrange a visit to the operating room at St. Peter’s Hospital where we were able to [...]

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Seeing the Future at NANOvember Community Day

by Sandra Foyt

Community Day is a once a year opportunity to get a glimpse behind the futuristic façade of the College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering (CNSE) buildings. As cool as they appear from the outside, nothing compares with the wow factor of the work that takes place within these walls. It’s not an exaggeration to say [...]

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Is Your Library Game? Nov. 13 Is National Gaming Day

by Sandra Foyt

National Gaming Day will be celebrated at over 1,800 participating libraries by tens of thousands of people across the nation who will be gaming together on November 13, 2010. Is your library participating in this even? I checked the Google Map of participating libraries, and found the following libraries listed: Troy Public Library – Lansingburgh [...]

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Autumn In Albany Brings the Snowfall Happy Dance

by Sandra Foyt

Autumn in the Capital Region brings a number of chores: putting away the deck cushions, winterizing the lawnmower (not sure if this actually gets done in our home, but it’s on the list), cleaning the gutters (not my finest hour!,) and stacking the firewood. Not infrequently, it’s a race to finish the autumn chores before [...]