Category: Satellite Festival
This is Mike Paitchell. I founded the New Jersey Science and Engineering Festival and the parent organization which is staging it, the New Jersey Applied Science and Technology Council.
The USA has a crisis brewing. Many of us believe that the USA needs to get more young people interested in science and technology, choosing technical careers, becoming assets to industry, and developing new industries if we are to continue to function and grow as a viable country. It appears that the general population is less interested in science than ever before, and they have a minimal understanding of technology. The decline of USA based research, development, and manufacturing continues to accelerate.
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Category: t-shirts
The t-shirts are ready to be ordered for the "Woodstock of Science"
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Category: Aimee Stern
When I first heard I was invited to a breakfast meeting with Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, former leader of The Human Genome Project, and discoverer of many important genes, at a pancake house I thought it was a joke.
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A big shout out to Scientific Blogging 2.0 who is currently covering the AAAS convention in San Diego, CA. We get a little excited around here when we start seeing people talking about the festival mainly because WE are so excited about the festival.
Here is an excerpt from Hank Campbell's post referencing the USA Science and Engineering Festival.
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Category: Nifty Fifty
Here is a video of one of the USA Science and Engineering Festival's Nifty Fifty speakers, Diane Bunce, demonstrating the "Chemistry of Thanksgiving" and making science come alive, like it did for me at that summer internship. So if you have ever wondered how a turkey pop-up timer works, why we eat potatoes and not paper towels, what makes your belly ache after a big meal and how antacids work check out her demonstration in the video.
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The 2010 USA Science and Engineering Festival is the first of its kind: multi-cultural, multi-generational and multi-disciplinary celebration of science in the United States that will take place in Washington, D.C. from 10/10/10 through 10/24/10 culminating in a two day...
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