Category: Active & Healthy Lifestyle

  • Interested in Healthy Eating?

    Healthy Eating in a Beautiful Space on the Corner We enjoyed a perfect lunch at Roots Natural Kitchen on Saturday, June 13 – Excellent food, friendly folks, a beautiful atmosphere; all combined with a mission to keep us healthy and support the UVa Children’s Hospital.   UVa Today: U.Va. Grads’ New Corner Restaurant Serves Healthy Food With a Mission…

  • How True! – Lucky Is A Lie

    How True! – Lucky Is A Lie

    I agree!  I was “lucky” when we bought a Commodore 64 computer for our middle-school son and we both started learning BASIC programming.  I was “lucky” that I was in Marion, Alabama, when the Internet arrived and Judson College needed a webmaster. He was “lucky” to get a job as a software engineer, but what…

  • Brain Training: Learn to code by volunteering in a #CSFirst / #Scratch after-school club.

    Brain Training: Learn to code by volunteering in a #CSFirst / #Scratch after-school club.

    CS First/Scratch – Volunteer & Keep Your Brain Sharp! https://youtu.be/cLX9bDgmXBc

  • Free Skin Cancer Screening – Saturday, May 9

    We love the warm weather and sunshine, but remember that exposure to the sun can cause serious damage to your skin. The UVa Health System is offering a free screening that could save your life: If you are concerned that a spot on your skin may be skin cancer, you can be screened for free…

  • Google #CSFirst #Scratch Club – perfect for a diverse elementary school population!

    Google #CSFirst #Scratch Club – perfect for a diverse elementary school population!

    We were so pleased with our first run of the CS First – Game Design activities during our Spring 2015 after-school Computer Club for students in third and fourth grade at Jackson-Via ES. We discovered Google’s CS First midway in our Scratch Club schedule this spring, and thus we ran out of meetings before we were able to…

  • My favorite MOOC so far – Scratch Programming from edX

    My favorite MOOC so far – Scratch Programming from edX

    I feel like a real CS First “Guru” more than ever now! Our after-school Computer Club is exploring Scratch and Google CS First this year, so I was quick to sign up for the edX Scratch Programming course. I really enjoyed the workout this course gave my brain, but what impressed me the most were the parallels between this college…