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Student Competition Challenges High School Students to Innovate
Innovation can come from a lot of places. Often, it comes from years of research and development from companies or investors with budgets and facilities, from scientists with ideas to be tested or...
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Intel Survey Proves If You Expose Teens to Engineering You Create More Engineers
The world needs engineers. For many of us geeks, we have an engineer in our life (or are one ourselves) and have been exposed to the impact engineering has on society and industry in the United States....
View ArticleWANTED: Rosie the Programmer
It’s a pretty uniform feeling among geeks with daughters: We want to raise strong, smart, independent girls who can stand above stereotypes. So when I’m faced with marketing geared toward girls, I feel...
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Microsoft Student Developers Showcase Their Work at the White House Science Fair
Over the past year, I’ve covered a few Microsoft-sponsored competitions that focus on various kinds of software development across all ages. From teaching programming concepts in a game environment in...
View ArticleSpirit of Innovation Challenge Student Finalists Announced
A few days ago, the finalists for the the 2011-2012 Spirit of Innovation Challenge were announced. This competition is geared towards high school students who want to apply STEM concepts (Science,...
View ArticleIntroduce a Girl to Engineering Day
I am happy to be tackling once again the subject of getting girls into the STEM majors, this time in honor of Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day. To better understand the problem about why so few...
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Math at Bedtime: Sign Up Here
This is such a great idea – Bedtime Math! Every night across the country children’s literacy is being improved as parents sit down to read their children a bedtime story. We perceive a story to be a...
View ArticleIntroducing NASA G.I.R.L.S.: A New Mentoring Program for Girls
I recently got wind of a new mentoring program called NASA G.I.R.L.S., organized by Women@NASA. The program is so new that they are still building their website, but I knew I just had to contact them...
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Spirit of Innovation Challenge Winners Announced
Over the weekend, 15 teams of high school students competed at the NASA-Ames Research Center, representing the finalists in the Conrad Foundation’s Spirit of Innovation Challenge. Their projects...
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TechBurst Encourages Students to Share Knowledge
A TechBurst is a short, sharable video that explains a single educational concept in an entertaining and compelling way. Georgia Tech’s Center for 21st Century Universities (C21U) recently concluded...
View ArticleGirls Impress FIRST Championship With Project That Could Save Lives
It's been widely reported that we've fallen far behind in STEM education, that our children just aren't proficient at math, science, technology,or engineering. Everyone from President Obama to William...
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Zachary Levi Talks STEM Skills, Digital Literacies and Human-Centric Tech
I heard his voice as Trooper 4 while playing Halo: Reach. I've seen him as the charismatic host of Spike TV’s Video Game Awards in 2011. And my son and I are both huge fans of his tech-savvy...
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It's been widely reported that we've fallen far behind in STEM education, that our children just aren't proficient at math, science, technology,or engineering. Everyone from President Obama to William...
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5 Real Robots Made From Everyday Stuff
The popular image of robotics research involves big budgets, state-of-the-art technology and the latest materials. But in fact, a lot of cutting-edge research is done on the cheap, using things you...
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Danica McKellar’s Girls Get Curves Makes Geometry Relevant
Ever since Danica McKellar, the actor (best known for playing Winnie in The Wonder Years) and UCLA-trained mathematician, began her New York Times-bestselling series of math books for girls in 2007,...
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New Book Explains Albert Einstein and Relativity for Kids
Einstein and Relativity for Kids by Jerome Pohlen, the newest in the Chicago Review Press series of "For Kids" series of biographies for ages 9 and up, doesn't worry about whether the topic of...
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Meet the United States’ F1 in Schools World Championship Team
As the 2012 FIA Formula One World Championship draws to a close, so does the F1 in Schools World Championship. This past week, in a run up to this weekend's grand prix in Abu Dhabi, 32 teams from 21...
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The Birth of a Computer Chip Explained During NANOvember
Through a wall of observation windows, we could see banks of "tools" -- actually, large machines lined up much like the room-sized computer banks -- used in creating the microchips found in virtually...
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SimCity Goes Educational
My first serious game addiction turns educational with a new SimCityEDU site. EA recently announced the launch of this online resource to support the use of SimCity as a learning tool.
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Microsoft Imagine Cup Adds Female-Focused Competitions
The Imagine Cup is Microsoft's global student programming competition in which teams of students develop ideas into prototypes and learn how to bring them to market along the way. Increasingly, female...
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