Discovery Retreat TX

Discovery Retreat TX Come join Discovery Retreat, a place for students, of both oral and signing backgrounds, to interact

Discovery Retreats focus on developing leadership skills and promoting open-minded attitudes towards all types of communication. Activities will include skits, ROPES course, team building activities, and more. CART (captioning), oral, and sign language interpreters will be provided for large group activities. Discovery Retreats are coordinated by the Educational Resource Center on Deafness at Texas School for the Deaf and are held at Peaceable Kingdom Retreat for Children in Killeen, Texas.

A one day retreat at Texas Tech University in Lubbock where MS and HS students could explore STEM through coding. Studen...
06/28/2019

A one day retreat at Texas Tech University in Lubbock where MS and HS students could explore STEM through coding. Students programed the Sphero device to navigate through several different mazes.

Drones and Spheros!
12/08/2018

Drones and Spheros!

It's Saturday afternoon and we're still going strong. Keeping those brains in overdrive, we gotta get those drones up a...
10/27/2018

It's Saturday afternoon and we're still going strong. Keeping those brains in overdrive, we gotta get those drones up and the Spheroes on track!

The weather is gorgeous here. Perfect timing for an outdoor team building activity!
10/27/2018

The weather is gorgeous here. Perfect timing for an outdoor team building activity!

Thanks to the crazy schedule, we had an early breakfast today then we got right back to business. More drone coding. M...
10/27/2018

Thanks to the crazy schedule, we had an early breakfast today then we got right back to business. More drone coding. More Sphereo coding. Things are looking pretty exciting over here. Make sure you watch out and duck when those drones and spheroes come close!

We also heard from Mr. Paul Stropko, Mr. Bill Huber, and Mr. Ken Brown about their college and work experiences. We are...
10/27/2018

We also heard from Mr. Paul Stropko, Mr. Bill Huber, and Mr. Ken Brown about their college and work experiences. We are so lucky to have these opportunities to meet and talk with deaf/hard of hearing professionals.

Our keynote presenter was Ms. Jo Bempong. She works for Texas Instrument as a software engineer. Our students had so m...
10/27/2018

Our keynote presenter was Ms. Jo Bempong. She works for Texas Instrument as a software engineer. Our students had so many questions for her!

No Discovery Retreat is complete without team building activity to kick off the weekend. Let's say hello to our old fri...
10/27/2018

No Discovery Retreat is complete without team building activity to kick off the weekend. Let's say hello to our old friends and make new friends.

Friday night was jam-packed. We learned about binary coding and started to grasp the concept of different coding progra...
10/27/2018

Friday night was jam-packed. We learned about binary coding and started to grasp the concept of different coding programs.

Ready for Discovery Retreat?! We sure are. We're tackling coding this weekend.
10/27/2018

Ready for Discovery Retreat?! We sure are. We're tackling coding this weekend.

09/21/2018

Attention all!!
Discovery Retreat October 26-28, 2018: Coding Drones is now accepting Sophomores (in addition to Juniors and Seniors)! If you know a deaf or hard of hearing 10-12th grader in Texas please tell them to ask their teacher to Nominate their student TODAY! Deadline for Nominations is Friday, September 28th. Questions? Contact Debbie at [email protected].

The rain faded away and the sun shined on us as we had a blast going through the ROPES course!
04/22/2018

The rain faded away and the sun shined on us as we had a blast going through the ROPES course!

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Lubbock, TX
79401-79416, 79423, 79424, 79430, 79452, 79453, 79457, 79464, 79490, 79491, 7949

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