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Entertaining ENGINEERING.COM Returns as Festival Sponsor!
Posted by carlyo of USA Science & Engineering Festival on June 14, 2013 ENGINEERING.COM, with its mission to inform, inspire and entertain the world’s engineers — and future engineers — is returning as a key sponsor of the USA Science & Engineering Festival and Expo in 2014. Widely known for having its fingers directly on the pulse of the fascinating, ever-evolving realm of engineering innovation, ENGINEERING.COM will help expand the…
Spotlight on Pluto by Science Author Dr. Fred Bortz
Posted by carlyo of USA Science & Engineering Festival on June 12, 2013 Today’s guest blog post is by Featured Science Author Dr. Fred Bortz Tune in Thursday, June 13th on our Facebook page at 10 am EST to discuss this post with Dr. Bortz! More than ten years after it was posted at the “Ask Dr. Fred” page “Why Isn’t Pluto a Planet Anymore?” remains by far the…
POPSCI IS BACK AS A VALUED FESTIVAL MEDIA PARTNER!
Posted by carlyo of USA Science & Engineering Festival on May 30, 2013 Popular Science, one of the leading sources of news in technology, science, gadgets, space, green tech and more, is returning as a key Americium Media Partner with the Festival! In doing so, Popular Science joins a growing list of other top science media leaders who will be serving as Festival sponsors, including Scientific American, American Scientist, Sigma Xi,…
The Countdown Begins! 365 Days Until the USA Science & Engineering Festival!
Posted by carlyo of USA Science & Engineering Festival on April 26, 2013 Save the date: the USA Science & Engineering Festival Expo is just one year away! We are so excited to bring you the largest celebration of science & engineering for the 3rd time! Leading up to the Expo we will have affiliate events, the return of the Nifty Fifty (x3), contests, and school programs! The Festival week will…
Nifty Fifty Speaker Joe Schwarcz: In observation, ‘chance favours only the prepared mind’: Pasteur
Posted by carlyo of USA Science & Engineering Festival on April 24, 2013 Guest Blogger USA Science & Engineering Festival Nifty Fifty Speaker Joe Schwarcz PhD I had my tonsils out in 1954. In those days a few bouts of tonsillitis, and out they came. I remember being plied with chloroform before the operation and with ice cream after. I also remember being given a special gum, “imported from…
Role Models in Science and Engineering: Clea Koff
Posted by carlyo of USA Science & Engineering Festival on March 27, 2013 
Celebrating Women’s History Month with another STEM Role Model! Often rated among the top 10 forensic science experts today. Became internationally known for her work with the United Nations in conducting forensic investigations of mass grave genocide killings in Rwanda and the Balkans — and through such scientific evidence, helped bring perpetrators of such killings…
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…
Tomorrow: Join us for the Woodstock of Science!
Posted by carlyo of USA Science & Engineering Festival on April 27, 2012 The excitement is filling the air at Sneak Peek Friday today as we are gearing up for an amazing weekend! The Festival takes place Saturday from 10-6 and Sunday from 10-4 at the Walter E Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Please visit our “Plan Your Day” section on our website for important information regarding…
