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With Focus on Wowing Elementary and Middle School Students, Life Technologies Returns as Major Sponsor!
Posted by carlyo of USA Science & Engineering Festival on January 27, 2012 As many educators know, the elementary and middle school years are critical periods in which students’ interest in science can “wither on the vine” if efforts are not made early to engage young learners in such subjects in exciting and creative ways. This is why global biotech leader Life Technologies — as it prepares to…
Nifty Fifty Speaker Carol Reiley is on the Cover of MAKE Magazine!
Posted by carlyo of USA Science & Engineering Festival on January 13, 2012 AT&T Sponsored Nifty Fifty Program Speaker and Surgical Roboticist Carol Reiley made the recent cover of MAKE Magazine! She is the first female engineer to make the cover of the magazine. Volume 29 of MAKE features an interview and two articles co-authored by Carol. Carol, a Ph.D. student at Johns Hopkins University’s Computational Interaction and…
The Kate Middleton Dress? Calling Out the News Media Over Where Our True Priorities Should Lie
Posted by Kandy Collins on July 22, 2011 Fed by the news media, our fascination and reverence for celebrities has reached shameless heights. But when you add the element of royalty to the mix, celebrity worship can take off into the stratosphere, triggered even by an item as seemingly mundane as a dress. This leaves me wondering — and angered — over what…
Einstein at the Expo!
Posted by Joanna Pool on February 23, 2011 Learn about the theory of Relativity from Einstein himself! Interview by Engineering.com at the 2010 USA Science and Engineering Festival.
Finally a Beer for Astronauts
Posted by Joanna Pool on October 11, 2010 Thanks to one of our sponsors Engineering.com for helping us get the word out about the Festival. They will be at the Expo on Oct 23-24th even! They will be interviewing Bill Nye the Science guy and following them on engineering.com. Check out this video some of the other things happening on engineering.com. Things like:…
This week in Engineering
Posted by Joanna Pool on September 16, 2010 Check out this great video from on of our partner orgnaizations Engineers.com. From the Science Festival to Mario Brothers and robots. Cool video! Thanks for the shout out!
Join Us in a National Grassroots Movement to Enhance Science Education Through Outreach Satellite Networks
Posted by lbock on July 23, 2010 As a founder and organizer of the upcoming inaugural USA Science & Engineering Festival, I’m in frequent contact with a wide range of teachers, students, innovators, community leaders, entrepreneurs and decision makers in science and technology across the country. One thing that I continue to learn from these experiences: There is a growing need out…