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April 8, 2010
We are very pleased to announce our partnership with Science for Citizens, a brand new website co-founded by Darlene Cavalier (who blogs as the Science Cheerleader) and Michael Gold (a former science editor and writer). This site aggregates citizen science projects (also known as amateur science…
April 7, 2010
Only THREE Days left to vote for the Spirit of Innovation Awards! Have you voted yet? Check out www.conradawards.org for more information on all of the teams, their products, and to submit your vote!
For the past week and a half I have posted different videos from the different divisions. The…
April 5, 2010
Only Four Days left to vote for the spirit of innovation awards! Have you voted yet? Check out www.conradawards.org for more information on all of the teams, their products, and to submit your vote!
This is the GBN GADGET team's commercial for the Afterburner, the Nutrition Bar with a Kick!…
April 5, 2010
Shout out to Bora over at Blog Around the Clock for his post about the USA Science and Engineering Festival. Take a read below or check out his blog.
Do you have a blog of your own and want to write a post covering the USA Science and Engineering festival? Put a post up and contact us!
Remember…
April 5, 2010
T-shirts are on sale!
We are currently promoting a: I AM A SCIENTIST CAMPAIGN
We want to see the faces of future and current scientists and engineers! Send us a picture of you wearing your Festival T-shirt and we will publish it on the Festival's Website! By sending us your photo you give us…
April 5, 2010
The last week for voting for the spirit of innovation awards! Have you voted yet? Check out www.conradawards.org for more information on all of the teams, their products, and to submit your vote!
Here are a few videos of teams up for the Spirit of Innovation award.
Check out Team Green MAST and…
April 2, 2010
I think at some point most kids think: I want to be an Astronaut!! How cool would it be to be launched amount the stars and see the Earth from space? Many kids go through this phase, they might buy a telescope and dream up moon landings, but very few at the age of 6 decide: I'm going to be an…
April 2, 2010
iT'S day FIVE voting for the spirit of innovation awards! What are you waiting for? Check out www.conradawards.org for more information on all of the teams, their products, and to submit your vote! Have you voted yet?
Here are a few videos of teams up for the Spirit of Innovation award.
Our…
April 1, 2010
Day four for voting for the spirit of innovation awards is upon us. Check out www.conradawards.org for more information on all of the teams, their products, and to submit your vote! Have you voted yet?
Here are a few videos of teams up for the Spirit of Innovation award.
This video gives you some…
March 31, 2010
Day three for voting for the spirit of innovation awards is upon us. Check out www.conradawards.org for more information on all of the teams, their products, and to submit your vote!
Here are a few videos of teams up for the Spirit of Innovation award.
The Piezo-Paper invention.
A quick demo of…
March 31, 2010
From time to time, my job requires some travel in order to run my experiments and this week I found myself in Houston, TX, yet again. Upon entering the dinning room of my hotel for breakfast I spotted a 17 year old boy with a Rubik's cube. Knowing the USA Science and Engineering Festival has a "You…
March 30, 2010
Day two for voting for the spirit of innovation awards is upon us. Check out www.conradawards.org for more information on all of the teams, their products, and to submit your vote!
Here are a few videos of teams up for the Spirit of Innovation award.
Check out what Greem MAST from Milken…
March 29, 2010
Yes, I admit it, I'm pretty spoiled to be living in San Diego. Eighty Degrees today and perfect blue skies was a picture perfect day to go out on a whale watching adventure. Armed with my camera I didn't know what might be out there. Would the whales be out playing? I hoped so. During the trip we…
March 29, 2010
Vote now for your favorite high school innovators! 25 top high school teams have been designing the future. Its not science fiction. Here, education meets innovation and entrepreneurship, and real science gets real. Teams have created innovative products to solve some of the grand challenges facing…
March 26, 2010
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!" Over the past 6 months, 25 finalist teams have created real products to solve some of the…
March 25, 2010
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 Museum of Health and Medicine. Einstein talked about exciting…
March 24, 2010
The questions that plague most scientist are: why, how, where did this come from? Answering those fundamental questions is how mysteries of the world are discovered and solved. Forensic Anthropology takes these questions a little further as these types of questions are answered in a legal domain.…
March 19, 2010
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.
The 2010 USA Science &…
March 17, 2010
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! But we need your votes!!
How to vote:
1) Go to seriouseats.com
2) Register on the site
3) Vote!
March 17, 2010
Stacy Jannis, who has been working tirelessly for the Festival to get the Kavli Science Video Contest up and running, was recently honored by AAAS and the National Science Foundation 2009 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge for her video "Inside the Brain: Unraveling the…
March 14, 2010
Old time vinegar pie
It's Pi day or Pi(e) day...either way you look at it today is 3/14 so a good excuse to eat some pie and Scienceblogs and Serious Eats have teamed up to hold a pi(e) contest. Upon discovering this contest I enthusiastically embarked upon dreaming up something fitting for the…
March 12, 2010
Deadline for the tournament sign up is April 30, 2010 so there is still a little bit of time to sign up for the Rubik's cube tournament!
Are you a teacher and looking to incorporate the Rubik's cube contest into your teaching lessons? There is an orientation workshop on April 10th at the National…
March 12, 2010
This week we have found a couple of bloggers who have promoted the festival on their blogs! A shout out to Dr. Stephanie Chasteen at sciencegeekgirl with a blog post this week about the festival!
Do you have a blog and would like to help us get the word out about the science festival? Contact us…
March 12, 2010
I recently discovered this blog post from early January that mentions the USA Science and Engineering Festival. We would like to give a Shout out to Mary at The Open Helix Blog for her post on January 4th covering the science festival!
Do you have a blog and would like to help us get the word out…
March 10, 2010
"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery." ~~Mark van Doren
The chemical structures danced across the page as I sat trying to figure out what reaction came next. It was the beginning of organic chemistry as an undergraduate and people had warned me that o-chem would be a bit of a…
March 5, 2010
"Wake up, wake up!" My father shook me gently and indicated to follow him into the living room early in the morning July 1969. There in a remote town in central Africa, a group of people were gathered around a radio avidly listening. "Listen, remember this moment the rest of your life," Dad said…
March 3, 2010
You CAN do the Rubik's cube Tournament is taking place at the USA Science and Engineering Festival.Have you signed up yet?
43 quintillion different combinations...
I don't believe I have actually ever solved a Rubik's cube, so after finding out that we are going to have a Rubik's cube…
March 1, 2010
What is out there? Is there life on other planets? People have pondered these questions for centuries as they have looked up into the night sky and wondered what might lie beyond. Pop culture is littered with these reflections in film, book and TV. After watching Steven Spielberg's E.T. as a kid…
February 26, 2010
Hi. 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…
February 24, 2010
The t-shirts are ready to be ordered for the "Woodstock of Science"
A portion of the proceeds will go to helping a child attend the festival
It's always good to remember that science is FUN! And the Festival will be too!
Show your support and pride for the USA Science and Engineering Festival…