The Lion's Roundtable (Guest: Jordan Smith-Kenning & Bailey Emler )
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Todd Delaney:Discussing topics of interest to the university, Hammond, and the surrounding communities. This is the Lions Roundtable. Now, here's your host, Doctor. Amber Nero.
Dr. Amber Narro:Good day. Good day. This is Amber Narro on KSLUs 90.9, the Lion. I am here at the Lion's Roundtable with two of my friends. I've got Jordan Smith-Kenning with me today, and I've also got my wonderful, awesome friend, Bailey Emler.
Dr. Amber Narro:She is an honor student here at Southeastern, and she's also working with the STEM Center. I just talked to you last week, Jordan. We talked about the the robotics competition and all things that were happening here at Southeastern last weekend. First of all, thank you very much for allowing the honors program to come there and do this do the snack stand for a fundraiser. So we had lots of collaboration and stuff going on.
Dr. Amber Narro:But tell me about the results from that first before we jump into the science fair, which is actually next week, the fifth and the sixth on Thursday and Friday, and we're definitely gonna tell you how to get involved. But first, robotics competition. How'd it go?
Jordan Smith-Kenning:It went amazing. It was definitely a a team lift. Everyone from myself, our incredible student workers, our volunteers that showed up. Shout out too to miss Yvette Hill over at Springfield High. She really helped me a lot this year with getting, everything set with VEX.
Dr. Amber Narro:VEX. VEX. What is this VEX?
Jordan Smith-Kenning:So VEX is a particular set of robots. I guess, it's a program called VEX Robotics, and it focuses a lot with curriculum in the classroom. So all of our teams are from high schools and middle schools across the region. And the robots that they build are roughly, I would say, 12 to 18 inches by about a foot and a half tall. So they're pretty incredible.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:The cool thing about VEX is there's a set of rules and guidelines that they follow as far as their engineering process, but students have a lot of different modifications and planning and different engineering designs that they can do. So no robot was the same as another. We had 33 teams on Saturday.
Dr. Amber Narro:That was an amazing operation. Because we were there, we got to walk around a little bit, and I I encouraged my students who were volunteering at the event to also walk around, and the robots were going everywhere. For a second, I brought my my little sweet seven month old grandson who came and hung out for a second, and his eyes were glued to those things. And they were just zipping around and putting rocks in tubes and all kinds of other craziness that they it was very, very cool. It was crazy.
Dr. Amber Narro:And it's a timed event, you know, just to kinda explain what I saw. One of the the the great thing about it and you tell me, you know, fill in the blanks here because this is not my I was not part of the the the crew for this event. But the robots are in these, like, little boxing rings, it looks like. Right? Yeah.
Dr. Amber Narro:And the timer starts. And then all of a sudden, they're picking up little rocks. The robots are picking up rocks and putting them into a little tube, and the kids are standing outside, and they're controlling them with their little remotes and things like that. Tell me, what was their challenge? Is this, like, the most blocks in the tube, or
Jordan Smith-Kenning:what's happening? Yeah. So this game, each year Vex changes up the challenge in the game. So this year, it was called pushback. So it was offense and defense for these these robots.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:The first part of the competition field, it starts off with a minute of autonomous period. So these teams are actually programming these bots to run autonomously to really just decide whatever their strategy is. So some of them may be going to take the other blocks from the other team so they can't get theirs. Stop. Yes.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Oh, me. Sabotage. No. You gotta do it if you wanna win.
Dr. Amber Narro:That's rude, y'all.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:So, yeah. So, in the there was a couple of longer tubes and there's markers in the tubes that you can literally push back, hence the name of the game, and push the other team's blocks out. So, you could also, some of these robots were designed to pick up six and seven blocks at a time. So they may have ran and sucked up the other team's blocks so they couldn't have them.
Dr. Amber Narro:So rude.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:So so smart. So yeah, I mean, it was it was an amazing day. We had two competition fields running at a time. They had a skills challenge. There was a huge pit area where the students were all getting to know each other.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:They were walking around and visiting all the other teams. And then, of course, we had an area with the snacks, kinda like a hangout lounge and the Pennington. Shout out to the Pennington staff too for allowing us to use the space. It was such a good day. But yeah, I mean, these kids came to win.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Like, it was incredible. So, there were couple different ways.
Dr. Amber Narro:I mean, they show up early too with like game face on.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Oh, yes. It was pretty impressive. They were like game face. I'm surprised they didn't have like painted faces. We had a lot of them had uniforms or matching jerseys or like some type of
Dr. Amber Narro:matching Yeah.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Type members only jacket looking stuff. It was it was fantastic. Some of these teams had their family and their friends and their fans were all dressed up in their team colors. So, it was it was very cool. Alright.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Talk winners. So winners. So there's a couple of different ways you could win, different awards at the, competition. So we have overall winners. We have tournament champions, and I'll tell you a little bit about those.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:We also had awards that were given by our judges, so Bailey can talk a little bit too about what she experienced as a scorekeeper, but behind the scenes there's judging going on where students have to go in for team interviews and talk about their engineering design processes, there's these engineering notebooks that they have to create. So it's it's very multifaceted. It's not just what you saw on the competition field. There's other areas where they're competing against each other for those very coveted awards and.
Dr. Amber Narro:Now, this is a true community event for sure. Absolutely. Students coming from high schools, middle school?
Jordan Smith-Kenning:We had a couple of middle school teams. Yeah.
Dr. Amber Narro:And
Jordan Smith-Kenning:holding their ground too. At one point, I thought one of the middle school teams was gonna win like really take it over. They were fighting hard.
Dr. Amber Narro:That's awesome. Yeah. So they come with their entire family. I feel like and brothers and sisters were there and the whole nine yards. This was a real family event and a community event.
Dr. Amber Narro:And also an opportunity for Southeastern students to participate
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Oh, yeah.
Dr. Amber Narro:As paid members of your staff, but also some volunteers too.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Have incredible volunteers show up. Most of them were Southeastern undergraduate students, so shout out to them. They showed up on a Saturday, some of them as early as 7AM, with their game faces on, getting ready to to learn and do. And honestly, one of the biggest compliments that we got was how incredible our volunteers were and how knowledgeable and how smooth everything ran. You have 33 teams.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:That's a lot of moving parts happening at one time.
Dr. Amber Narro:Y'all do some training heading up to that though, don't you, Jordan?
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Yeah, our incredible student workers did a lot of the more extensive training and they were able to kinda turn around and show the volunteers. So that's one of the great things about VEX and about most of our events is if you wanna volunteer, you could have shown up and had zero experience. If you've never seen a robot before in your life, it was totally fine. There was something there that you could do. And, a lot of, like, the different jobs that we had, very intuitive on what you do.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:So I do wanna encourage people anytime we have events, it you do not have to have any experience at all. You just have to have that willingness and wanna show up and have some fun.
Dr. Amber Narro:That's wonderful. Bailey, tell me about Saturday then. Bailey Emler, she is an honor student here at Southeastern. She's also working with Southeastern's North Shore STEM, here in the iHub and absolutely having a great time doing that. What about Saturday though?
Dr. Amber Narro:I mean, no I mean, you're you're not really on the science y, like techy side of things, and you're working in this space. Tell me about it.
Bailey Emler:So I'm one of those people who have never seen a robot, for sure. I went there and I was I didn't really know what to expect. But when I got there, I really saw like a really big community of students coming out. I definitely was really surprised just how these high schoolers like made their own space or these middle schoolers made their own space. They really made their own community and brought out something beautiful, this energy.
Bailey Emler:I felt like I was watching a baseball game at some points because all these parents were hooping and hollering over their kids, and I was like, oh, that's so cute. And it's so sweet, and it's really great to see that support for people in the STEM community. So I really love to see that. And then, being a scorekeeper was an amazing experience. Like I've said, I've never seen a robot, but it was just it was such a gift to be able to be there and learn so much about robotics and just, you know, help score keep and then, like, learn from the students as well, learn from their energy, learn from the, like, just, you know, I just take it all in,
Jordan Smith-Kenning:you know.
Dr. Amber Narro:Indeed. Indeed. And you're getting work experience that you're gonna be able to put on resumes and later go out into the community and kinda make yourself a little bit more multifaceted. What is your major here? Social work.
Dr. Amber Narro:Right. So nothing to do with robotics at all.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:She's she's getting socialized.
Dr. Amber Narro:So Indeed.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:She's absolutely working with students and families, you know, at all of these events. So she's getting some hands on social work experience. Indeed. One of
Dr. Amber Narro:the things that we really focus on here at Southeastern is a well rounded student. Right? And that's I always tell the students when we're talking about, like, the difference between, having a vocational degree or a a community college certificate or degree is that at the university setting, you get more of a well rounded opportunity to do things. Right? And we have lots of student worker positions here at Southeastern.
Dr. Amber Narro:You obviously are taking sciences and and all sorts of other topics, disciplines as you're building your bachelor's degree because that's the difference between a bachelor's degree and and the vocational degree. Right? Upper level studies, upper level kind of history, background, theory of what you're studying, all the whys of what you do. Right? And along with that skills development too.
Dr. Amber Narro:So you're gonna be able to bring this other area through your student work. You're getting paid here as a student worker at Southeastern. You're you're working alongside building your degree. And I I gotta imagine for you, Bailey, like, when you what area of social work are you wanting to go into? What are you wanting to do with this?
Dr. Amber Narro:Relate it to me why this is gonna give you something that you can use in your future.
Bailey Emler:So I plan on working in, like, clinical psych like, clinical social work. So I plan on kind of taking this and having like a private practice almost. I really think it can help me understand people like where they're at. Maybe I don't understand. You know, I've never been a robotics person.
Bailey Emler:I've never been all these things, but it lets me see communities as they are. It lets me, like, get on the ground and kind of get to know people, get to know, like, their personalities. And it's really beautiful to, like, see these kids, like, have a place to grow, have a place that nurtures them to, you know, follow their passions. So I really think finding people, finding students that have these niche groups and having, like, these organizations will definitely be helpful when I'm pointing other kids in directions of how to, like, pursue their passions. Like, maybe I might have a client one day who's really interested in STEM and I can point them into robotics opportunities or stuff like that that will help, like, them develop and grow.
Dr. Amber Narro:I love that you went in a different direction with that. So my thought was is that you were gonna maybe work with children, like, in schools or something like that because that's our our stereotype on on social workers that y'all are gonna go and work in schools or y'all are gonna work in the court system. Right? And we forget that social workers work with people with disabilities. They work with they work with politicians.
Dr. Amber Narro:They work with all sorts of civil kinds of projects. We also work with community groups and events and and really lots of nonprofits, and you also could have your own practice as well. So we the reason why I said that is that you you you metaphorically said you get on the ground and figure it out, But on Saturday, you were literally on the ground. She
Jordan Smith-Kenning:was literally
Dr. Amber Narro:on the Cleaning things up and laying on the ground, taking pictures. Yes. Indeed. Indeed. And all of you were.
Dr. Amber Narro:So thank you for the work that y'all did on Saturday to make this, an awesome project for the university and also just a great community event. It was so good. It was such a family event and so fun to watch. Jordan, I gotta give you a shout out for that. Thank you for what you did for Southeastern, for the community, and just for all those families that were there.
Dr. Amber Narro:They were having a ball. They had an absolute ball.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Such a blast. It was so great and I didn't announce the winners. I went off on a tangent there. So, Can we circle back to that?
Dr. Amber Narro:Stay tuned.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Okay. Can I do it now? Sure. Okay. So, I mean, obviously, everybody knows who's on our socials but if you're not on our socials, please follow us at Southeastern North Shore Stem.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Shout out. Uh-huh. I'm trying to think, okay. So, low key, I have two friends here on campus and I told them we were doing the show this morning and they each gave me a word to see if I could squeeze it into today's show. I don't know how I'm do it, but let me see if I can in the next few minutes.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Okay. Anyhoo, so we had some finalists. Our tournament finalists were our Robo Wolves, team A, and also our Central Wildcat robotics. So we had a team from Central was a tournament finalist and then Saint Paul's is our Robowolves.
Dr. Amber Narro:Go on. So both sides of our region there. Tournament champions, so that was And region representing North Shore STEM, right? Southeastern's North North Shore STEM.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Yes. So, have our five parishes in the region but these tournaments are open to anybody in the state. So, Central's outside of ours but we were more than happy to host them. So, we're super glad that they came. So, our tournament champions, these were the ones who won the bracket all the way in the end for all the marbles.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:That was team Supernova and team Robo Wolves B. So, Saint Paul's had both a tournament champion and a tournament finalist.
Dr. Amber Narro:Right. So and who was the other champion? Where were they from? Central. Central.
Dr. Amber Narro:So so that was Central and
Jordan Smith-Kenning:So finalist sorry. So finalist was Saint Paul's team Robo Wolf team a and Central Wildcat. Right. And then our tournament champions, which is like the first place, was Saint Paul's Robo Wolf's b and team Supernova.
Dr. Amber Narro:And where was Supernova from?
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Supernova is based out of Bush. Oh. So, yeah. So, they're another team here on the North Shore and then, the highest award that you can get was just the excellence award. That also went to team Supernova.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:So, to say that they had the best day ever on Saturday with their with their team and their brothers.
Dr. Amber Narro:Still on a cloud right now.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Absolutely. There was jumping up and down from parents, their coach, miss Janelle was going crazy. These kids, I mean, all of all 33 of these teams were fighting till the end to to really show up and and push hard to win because it's it's not easy. Like, these robotics, like, to see them even in between their matches, like, break these robots down and have to, know, fix things and reconfigure it. Oh, this isn't working and let's check this code and I'm like, oh my, this is like watching a Nascar pit stop.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Like, this is insane like, it
Dr. Amber Narro:was It is.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:And to see how fast, like, we went because we had two competition fields. Literally, they went back and forth like a tennis match. It it just Right. Flowed, but to see how fast these kids set up and just went after it. It was incredible.
Dr. Amber Narro:Love it. Love it. Talk to me, Jordan Yes. About the science fair that's coming up next week. And that's why we're doing back to backs this time.
Dr. Amber Narro:Got just two events that are just packed and and for the community as well. And you can still get your stuff in. So let's talk science fair.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:So science fair is Thursday and Friday, February. So Thursday, February 5 is for our elementary students, which is up to sixth grade if they don't want to compete and go to state. So sixth graders, we'll back up a little bit, sixth graders have the option. They can compete in elementary fair where they're not eligible to go to state or they can jump up to the junior senior class where if they win, they will go to state. So in that sixth grade, you have you have to really decide, like, how competitive you wanna be in the science fair.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:So Friday is our junior senior fair, so that's sixth grade through twelfth grade. It's gonna be held at the Pennington as well. We have opportunities if you wanna volunteer or if you'd like to be a judge. Again, you don't have to have any experience to volunteer. Our judges, we love to have industry.
Dr. Amber Narro:We have to have a science background.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:You don't. Okay. You to volunteer, anyone can volunteer. To be a judge, if you don't have a science background, you're always partnered up with someone who does. Mhmm.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:So it's kinda cool because you can put your input in things like their presentation skills and their ability to talk about their project. You don't need a science background to do that. So you're always partnered up in groups of three. A lot of our judges, shout out to our southeastern faculty, they come out. So most of the time you are getting a physics professor, a chemistry professor, a math professor, they're the ones coming to be like that subject matter expert.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:So when they look at the posters, they know what they know what they're reading.
Dr. Amber Narro:Yeah. So
Jordan Smith-Kenning:it's great. I mean, it's a great experience for the kids. They get that interview experience. They get the interaction. They get to see and talk to faculty and staff here at Southeastern.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:A lot of our volunteers are undergrad students. Shout out to our undergrads, man. They are always volunteering. It's a it's a great campus, and it's a great community.
Dr. Amber Narro:Sounds like you've done this before.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:This will be our third year doing the science fair. It's been at Southeastern's campus for many, many years, but the STEM Center took over three years ago. So What kind of projects? Oh my gosh. So, I mean, there's the classics.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:You know, you have The volcano. The volcanoes. Mean, there's things with candy. There's ones that I remember Candy? Candy.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:There's like different science experience experience.
Dr. Amber Narro:You still need judges, you say. Right? Yes. And they have candy?
Jordan Smith-Kenning:You can't eat anything. So that is part of the the safety of it. Know. What? You can't bribe the judges with candy.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:That's rude. I know. Right? You know, rude. Although our judges and volunteers do get snacks if they come so maybe we can entice people with snacks, some coffee and treats in the morning.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Okay. So yeah, I mean, so those are great classic projects, they usually change it up a little bit. We see a lot of things happening with coding and AI and computer science now as that's becoming more and more involved as a part of our world. There's math ones that get crazy intense with formulas that I don't even know what they are, which is why I'm not a subject matter expert.
Dr. Amber Narro:Yeah. Reminder, it doesn't necessarily need to be something that's like hands on super, you know, science y laboratory kind of stuff. Can also be math.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Yes. There's 14 different categories. So, I mean, again, you have your classics, your biology, your chemistry, your physics, things like that. But there's other things like health sciences. I think there's even a psychology category.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:I can't remember off the top of my head. But I mean, it it could be something like human behavior. So it's it's not necessarily about dissecting animals and things like that. I mean, you could have something that doesn't do anything ooey gooey. Yeah.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Know. My son did his, oh gosh, several years ago. We did rock crystal formations with borax and like different mediums and how they would grow. So it actually turned out, of course it did because my husband's an art teacher, they can't they're really beautiful. What what grew out of these these crystal formations out of out of borax.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:And so we actually had some of them hanging almost like stained glass in parts of our house. It was it's quite pretty. So. Oh, no. I know.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Right? So, and yeah, it didn't, it was just a couple of ingredients and a lot of testing and picture taking. So, again.
Dr. Amber Narro:I saw Atkus out on Saturday as well.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:He was one of our field
Dr. Amber Narro:Your son. Yes. And he was he was out there on Saturday. He was rocking and rolling. With friends.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:With friends. He had a couple of his friends with him. They were field resetters. So, all those rocks and blocks that you were talking about in between the events they were running out there and resetting because that autonomous period, if they didn't set the blocks up correctly, exactly how they were supposed to be, the robots wouldn't be coded correctly. So, they had little maps and I'd say about by the third or fourth round, they're like, we don't need pictures.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:We know exactly what we're doing. You know?
Dr. Amber Narro:Thank you for encouraging critical thinking in our students. Right? This is not just about the experience of coming and competing, but it's actually having to think critically and to strategize and to really use both sides of your brain, the creative part and the and the analytical part, and really putting those two things together to make sure that you have something that truly is different.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Absolutely. Yeah. Especially because these robots like I said, we had 33 and none of them looked the same.
Dr. Amber Narro:Know. We all did different things.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:They all had, like, different features about them. So that whole right brain, left brain thing, yes, there was a lot of analytical engineering thing, but the design of the robot, how would it fit in this arena? So they were also like spatial awareness, troubleshooting, like there was lots of different elements. Even as far as aesthetics because some of them, I remember we had a team of all girls, their robot was solid purple. So, it definitely stood out.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Everybody's like, the purple robot. So.
Dr. Amber Narro:Love that. Yeah. Science Fair next week. Yes. Categories, where do we go get some information on this so that we can encourage our students and our kids in the area to critically think.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Absolutely. So everything can be found, at southeastern.edu, forward /stemcenter. There's a tab on there that says science fair. It has absolutely anything and everything you'd wanna know. Of course, if you're not sure or you had a question, you can always, give us a call, at 549-3306.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:That number comes straight to me, and I'm always happy to answer questions. Or you can shoot us an email at stem center at s e l u dot e d u. But, yeah, we we love to encourage our elementary, middle, and high school students to compete. It's a great event. It's a really cool event to see, an experience because these kids are gaining so much confidence and kind of that real world experience even in fourth grade, with coming out and talking to people about their project that they've all worked so hard to do.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:But, yeah, anything that it's science fair related, southeastern.edu/stemcenter is gonna have it on there. Registration, is open until Monday, the, after this weekend. Oh, gosh. What's my date? Is that the twenty seventh?
Jordan Smith-Kenning:I don't even know anymore. Let's see. I'm gonna
Dr. Amber Narro:It is the twenty sixth.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Twenty sixth.
Dr. Amber Narro:But I'm looking at your registration right now. You got six parishes represented. Livingston and Saint Helena, Saint Tammany, Saint Tangebajoa, Washington, and the city of Bogalusa.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Yes. So.
Dr. Amber Narro:The thing about. Five parishes and a city.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Five parishes in the city. It's because Bogalusa has an independent school district but the thing about the science fair, we are Region 8. So, it is specific to our region. So, if your child is not in one of our five parishes or the city of Bogalusa and you're not sure where to register for your regional science fair, also, send me an email. I can get you registered to the right one because they will need to compete at the regional level if they wanna move forward to state.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Right. So a lot
Dr. Amber Narro:of organizations, a lot of people locally will be talking about this on KSLU in the next several weeks are doing things that are qualifiers for state competition. Yes. Right? And for example, Bonnie Borden's Speech and Theater Festival, I think it's here on that following the sorry, second Friday in March if I'm not mistaken And they are competing to go to state Yeah. For acting, speech, all sorts of kind of that artsy side of things.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:I love the hype that's around that too because even when I was in high school a thousand years ago, Bonnie Borden, like that kids would talk about it for months Yeah. Preparing and everything.
Dr. Amber Narro:Yeah. I did it when I was in school. That crazy? Yeah. I was I was a competitor when I was in high school with it and I did go to state one
Jordan Smith-Kenning:time. Good for you.
Dr. Amber Narro:Myself and Janice Vineyard who was a very dear friend of mine who we lost to breast cancer a couple years ago. So, we went to a state competition with with that not too long ago. It was really it was really wonderful and it's a great memory for me especially since, you know, my friend has passed. But it's it's it was a a great event. Enjoyed it.
Dr. Amber Narro:For the science fair Mhmm. Registration's super easy, and I just misspelled it nine nine different kind of ways from Sunday when I was looking for it. It still popped up real easily.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Oh, good.
Dr. Amber Narro:So sign all I did was Southeastern Science Fair, North Shore STEM, and it came up. So Yeah. Region eight science fair registration for twenty twenty six. It is going to be at Southeastern Louisiana University in the Pennington Center. That's right.
Dr. Amber Narro:Yes. And the deadline for entry is Monday on January twenty sixth. So make sure that you go ahead and get all of your information in and you have your student information and demographics, your project title and topic classification, abstract for it. What's an abstract? What does that mean?
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Basically, it's kind of a summary of what you did in your in your in your project. Right.
Dr. Amber Narro:And you
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Typically, it's a 100 words or less, just
Dr. Amber Narro:kind of a quick, this is what my project's about. Indeed. And we're gonna be taking pictures there, so make sure you sign your media release that you don't mind us using pictures you of you at this public event. Come on, y'all. Yeah.
Dr. Amber Narro:Come smile and take some credit.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Let's do the media release is actually built into the registration thing too. So, we cover with that but usually, we have our our team here at Southeastern also comes out and takes a picture and gets that posted in the paper and things like that. We're gonna post it on all of our socials and the lovely Bailey will also be there. She's kind of our social media guru now. Well, she's done some pretty cool stuff
Dr. Amber Narro:so far. You do singles and teams. I know. For this event. So, you could be you could be posting all sorts of things, right?
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Yes. So, we'll have all of that posted. We want our parents to follow and like our pages and if they want to post their pictures for the science fair, even for VEX, anything that we're doing, the more Taggers. Tag, tag, tag. We want to we want to see all the cool pictures that you got too, you know?
Dr. Amber Narro:So Tag us with?
Jordan Smith-Kenning:So we do hashtag s n stem because, you know, Southeastern North Shore stem is a long word. Yep. So we always do hashtag s n s stem and then hashtag lion up for stem roar.
Dr. Amber Narro:Yeah. You can leave the roar out. Yeah.
Bailey Emler:That was Right.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:That was one of my things. That was extra.
Dr. Amber Narro:That was extra.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Yeah. Megan, if Megan's listening right now, she wanted me to say roar on the radio. Mhmm. Ah. What was the other word?
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Very good. Marbles? No. It's not marbles, but, man, I got marbles. Oh my gosh.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:Yeah. Oh, what did she tell me? I'll think of it in a second. Rachel gave me another word to say.
Dr. Amber Narro:Very good. Very good. Well, you better hurry because we're about to close out. So Rigamerol. That's Rigamerol.
Dr. Amber Narro:Rigamerol. Squeeze rigamerol in here.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:It had that's the first word that popped into her head. Think you
Dr. Amber Narro:need to use it in a sentence.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:What is rigamarole? All this rigamarole around here. I
Dr. Amber Narro:That's not a sentence. I don't know. That's Technically, I don't know. Anyway No, it's not.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:I said it like three times. So that I get all the points for those ladies today. Okay. Very.
Dr. Amber Narro:Shout out. Shout out
Bailey Emler:to our colleagues on technology. Snuck in there but it's alright.
Dr. Amber Narro:Love it. Alright. I've been here talking with Bailey Emler and Jordan Smith Kenning about all of the things that are happening here at Southeastern in Southeastern's North Shore STEM. Thank you for hosting an awesome robotics competition this past weekend. I'm sure it's coming back next year if you
Jordan Smith-Kenning:missed yeah. We had a blast.
Dr. Amber Narro:We're gonna do it every year. Then we've got the STEM Science Fair coming up next week. Next week, y'all. Two weeks. Oh, it's two weeks.
Dr. Amber Narro:Well,
Jordan Smith-Kenning:registration's next week, then Two weeks. Yeah.
Dr. Amber Narro:Correct. So registration ends on Monday, though, because we gotta do some planning. So y'all get your science projects in. That's right. Go, you know, collect some bugs or build something or, you know, make some art
Jordan Smith-Kenning:with Borax. Mention this too. This happens a lot. If you're a homeschool student, you are eligible to compete with the regional science fair too because I we have a good bit that compete every year but I know a lot of times homeschool students don't realize that they're eligible And absolutely they are.
Dr. Amber Narro:Yeah. So you live here, you can come up in the in the science fair. Love
Jordan Smith-Kenning:it. Yep.
Dr. Amber Narro:Alright. Thank you, Jordan. Thank you. I appreciate you coming and sharing all this great information. And thank you for everything that you're doing for kids in this area.
Dr. Amber Narro:We can do hard things y'all.
Jordan Smith-Kenning:We can do hard things.
Dr. Amber Narro:We can do hard things. Do hard things. Bailey, you can do hard things.
Bailey Emler:Yes, I can do hard things.
Dr. Amber Narro:Fantastic. Alright. Thank you all for joining us here on KSLUs ninety point nine, the lion for the roundtable today. I'm Ambranero. Y'all have a great day.
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