About 40 elementary school-aged students, along with their families and teachers, filled Brookline High School’s science wing on Thursday night with high-tech Lego creations in tow. Dressed in colorful team swag, nine groups of first through fourth-graders eagerly set up their Lego projects, which they programmed with code through Lego Education’s SPIKE app, to present… Continue reading Young engineers create ‘Masterpieces’ at Brookline Lego robotics event
Author: Maggie Scales
From Brookline to the best restaurant in the world: author Arielle Johnson’s new book explores flavor
A crowd hungry for knowledge, and maybe more, packed the Brookline Booksmith on Monday night to hear Arielle Johnson, a Brookline native, flavor scientist and author, discuss her new book, “Flavorama.” After years of studying the chemistry of flavor by conducting research on everything from cocktails to Nordic vinegars, Johnson, 36, wanted to articulate her… Continue reading From Brookline to the best restaurant in the world: author Arielle Johnson’s new book explores flavor
‘Bike buses’ aim to help students safely skip the car ride to school
On a Wednesday morning in February, Yugo Shimada, a third-grade student at the Lincoln School, bundled up in his winter jacket, gloves, and helmet to go to school. He did not hop on to a school bus or into a car: he grabbed his bike and joined a group of students and parents in a… Continue reading ‘Bike buses’ aim to help students safely skip the car ride to school