Learning Places

Today we read about the Times Beach flood of 1982. This was a huge tragedy because 4,000 people went homeless, and took a lot of people.s residents. The flood happened because the town begin to spray dioxin into there dirt lanes. That caused the river to change, and they later had four days of rain. The rain was ten inches per day. I feel that this is very sad and a better solution should have been done by the government.

To my fellow YES Teens & Staff,  I would like to welcome my newborn son Gavon Amir Robertson. He was born March 10, 2011 at 2:43p.m at Barnes Jewish Hospital in room 5482. He weighed 6lbs 5 ounces, and he was 19 inches long. Its funny how I know all this like it was yesterday or so lol. The crazy thing is, I almost missed out on his birth because I overslept at home. Yeah, things like that would happen to a becoming father. Once I saw him, I almost cried because he reminded me of myself. I also wondered what if my mom was here to see him.  But yes, he's here now and I'm ready to give him all the love a man can give to his son. 

Hello YES Teens and Staff. Well over the past week, I encountered a minor situation that placed me behind bars. No, it wasn't nothing serious, just had traffic ticket violation. While I was incarcerated, I began to go into a deep thought of how life could alter just off small things. I patiently waited and waited to be released, and finally got my request approved. The reason I'm blogging about this situation, because your actions can change your entire lifestyle at the snap of a finger. I never been locked up before, and it was the worst experience I could ever imagine. I want to educate the youth about how to avoid challenges down the road similar to mines. Once I was released, I knew that I didn't have nothing to worry about anymore. 

Law-enforcers are out here to do there job, and I can't blame no one but myself for that reason. If you have any problem such as traffic tickets, Missing court dates, and etc; make sure that get those problems taken care of ASAP. Drive safe and think positive every time you step out the house, because you never know what might happen in the next minute. And please, do not avoid the situation, because it only get worst. Jail isn't meant for everyone. The reason I say that, is because of the experience. Thank you for reading my blog, and I plan to keep blogging to my fellow YES Teens and Staff. Cheerio!!! Be safe.

This week we met with three of our teen components to discuss the opportunities present for building new stations. We wanted to highlight the various science topics happening at the Taylor building after we finished building our round 1 stations. Those stations, created from ideas the teen groups had, are still in progress. In fact, look in the hallways and alcoves for signage that points to the places these new stations will be built. We welcome your input. 

As the new component based stations come together we'll be focusing on: climate change and it's effect on butterflies found in and near St. Louis with the C3 group, on "chain reactions" with the Design-It! group, and on healthy decision making around our food choices with the Healthy Teens, Healthy Living group. Be sure to check out the Learning Places teens' blogs for more information! 

 

Do you have a suggestion on a station topic to be built at the Taylor building? What kind of science interests you? Have a question you're dying to explore? Let us know! 

Hello YES Teen and YES Staff, I don't know if you might remember who I am but my name is Gregory Robertson. I was a former YES Teen back in 2008. For the ones that know who I am, I just wanted to say hello and see hows everything been with you guys. Life has been going up and down for me, but I'm still happy no matter how things get challenging. I go to ITT-Tech in Earth City right now, and is working on my Associates Degree in Visual Communications. I lost my mom back in May 2010, but still is maintaining life to proceed on with. I'm having a son on the way in April,so that's a plus I guess (lol.) But I hope Staff and Teens get a chance to read this, because I'm still a YES Teen to some friend I know. So keep in  touch everyone and hope to hear from you guys. Cheerio!

Today in learning places we visited other components to learn more about them. the component we visited was the HEALTHY TEENS HEALTHLY LIVING. They have groups come in and talk to them about being healthy and how to make unhealthy things healthy. Our group talked about how we can make a nutrition fact guessing game. With this game we could show and compare diet or low fact stuff to the regular snack.