Day 3: Vote for the Spirit of Innovation Awards
Category: Conrad Awards
Day three for voting for the Spirit of Innovation Awards. Find out more here!
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Building on the success of the inaugural Festival in 2010, the 2nd USA Science & Engineering Festival will inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers with school programs and nationwide contests throughout the 2011/2012 school year and a finale Expo in Washington DC in the Spring of 2012. The Expo is the nation’s largest celebration of all things science & engineering and features over 1500 hands-on activities and over 75 performances on multiple stages. The 2010 Festival attracted over 500,000 people of all ages and had strong support from the White House and Congress.
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March 31, 2010
Learning to do the Rubik's cube! Practice Makes Perfect.
Category: Rubik's cube tournament
One of the fundamental take home messages about learning how to solve the Rubik's cube isn't just about the process of how to solve it, but kids learning that with practice and perseverance they CAN learn to solve the cube and learn some cool math concepts in the process.
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March 30, 2010
Day 2 of Online Voting for Spirit of Innovation Awards is upon us!
Category: Conrad Awards
Day two for online voting for the Conrad awards is here! Check out a few more videos and don't forget to vote!
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March 29, 2010
Searching for Giant Squid Under the Sea With William Gilly
Category: Nifty Fifty
ndeed, the Humboldt represents an interesting creature for Gilly and his colleagues to study. With its 8 arms and two extensible tentacles, it is a gigantic cephalopod that reaches a length of 7 feet and weight of 100 pounds. It can jet rapidly through the water, perhaps over 20 mph, and can even leap out of the water and glide, a feat for which they are also called "jumbo flying squid".
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"Revenge of the Nerds" meets "American Idol" -->Online voting has BEGUN!!
Category: Conrad Awards
Voting has opened! Vote now for your favorite high school innovators!
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March 26, 2010
"Revenge of the Nerds" meets "American Idol"
Category: Conrad Awards
Help 25 of the top high school innovators design the future! On March 29th, the Spirit of Innovation Awards challenges YOU to vote for your favorite teams and help select this year's "Pete Conrad Scholars!"
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March 25, 2010
An Einstein Sighting at Brain Awareness Week!!
The USA Science and Engineering Festival pulls out the stops to get the word out about the festival! This time the Festival has recruited none other than...Albert Einstein to promote the festival at Brain Awareness Week at the National...
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March 24, 2010
Helping the Dead to Speak: The World of a Forensic Anthropologist---Dr. Franklin Damann
Category: Nifty Fifty
It was an overcast day in 2004 in the tiny village of Saravan, Laos. Forensic anthropologist Franklin Damann, on a dig for the U.S. Military to recover remains of missing servicemen killed in the Vietnam War, spies what appears to be a bone fragment resting on the soil surface. But he cannot be sure. He puts the fragments in a plastic bag labeled "Possible Osseous Remains...
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March 19, 2010
The Science Festival is Coming!
Category: Satellite Festival
COPUS (Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science) organizers are thrilled to be supporting the USA Science and Engineering Festival effort, particularly by helping the scientific community connect to the festival in their own community through satellite events.
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March 17, 2010
The USA Science and Engineering Festival's Pie made Top 10 on Pi day!!
Category: pi day contest
It was announced today that the pie entered for pi day from the USA Science and Engineering Blog, Joanna Pool's Irrationally Good Chocolate Basil pie, made it to the top 10! How to vote...
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