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Check out our newest blog post! This post, by our co-founder Tristan Martello, describes the usefulness of lists and dictionaries in Python. It builds upon fundamental teachings of our Python class and provides code and output to help you and your child follow along.

Special Topics in Coding: Python Dictionaries - Kickstart STEM By Tristan Martello, Co-Founder at Kickstart STEM Graduates of our Kickstart Python class (or coders familiar with Python) may recall the importance of lists and tuples when making programs. These structures are crucial to Python, and programming in general; the ability to store multiple variables a...

Hi everyone! Kickstart STEM will be holding free, weekly, virtual STEM activity sessions for elementary schoolers, beginning Wednesday, July 21. If your elementary schooler is curious about STEM or is just bored at home, these engaging STEM activities will be perfect for them.

For more information and to register for the next activity session, visit kickstartstem.com.

It’s commonly accepted among the scientific community that the universe is expanding. However, it’s not as though we can take an outside view of the universe and observe that it’s getting bigger. To say that the universe is expanding from our position here on earth is an extraordinary claim, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

The evidence that scientists have is that of redshift, a phenomenon where light appears to be tinted red when a light source is moving away from us. By observing that far off galaxies emit redshifted light, we can conclude that they are moving away from us and the universe as a whole is expanding.

If you’d like to read more about redshift, please take a look at this excellent article by Elizabeth Howell on the topic.

What Are Redshift and Blueshift? Reference Article: Facts about redshift and blueshift.