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Role Models in Science and Engineering: Nifty Fifty Speaker Dr. Diandra Leslie-Pelecky
Posted by carlyo of USA Science & Engineering Festival on March 28, 2013 
Celebrating Women’s History Month with another STEM Role Model! In today’s blog we feature Nanomaterials Physicist Dr. Diandra Leslie-Pelecky. We are excited to announce that Dr. Leslie-Pelecky will be serving as a Nifty Fifty Speaker for the Festival! She has appeared on television for ESPN, H2 and VOOM channels, and in print for publications such as…
Role Models in Science & Engineering: X-STEM & Nifty Fifty Speaker Dr. Kathryn Thornton
Posted by carlyo of USA Science & Engineering Festival on March 21, 2013 The USA Science & Engineering Festival is thrilled to introduce our elite group of X-STEM and Nifty Fifty Speakers for the 3rd Festival! In today’s blog we feature Physicist and former NASA Astronaut Dr. Kathryn Thornton! We are excited to announce that Dr. Kathryn Thornton will serve as both an X-STEM and Nifty Fifty Speaker…
Host a Science Festival, and Take Science Discovery to the Streets of America
Posted by carlyo of USA Science & Engineering Festival on March 12, 2013 By USA Science & Engineering Festival Founder Larry Bock “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Carl Sagan The excitement, the rigors and the risk of scientific discovery: Sagan loved and shared these emotions more effectively and openly with us than perhaps any other contemporary scientist. And in the process he helped catapult…
USA Science & Engineering Festival X-STEM & Nifty Fifty Speakers Guests of the First Lady at the State of Union!
Posted by carlyo of USA Science & Engineering Festival on February 12, 2013 TONIGHT- special guests of the First Lady at the State of the Union include USA Science & Engineering Festival X-STEM speaker Bobak Ferdowsi and Nifty Fifty Speaker Jack Andraka! Bobak Ferdowsi- referred to as NASA’s “Mohawk Guy” is a flight director at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In addition to his inspiring day-to-day work on the Mars Curiosity…