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kcollins | June 9, 2010Thanks to Project Lead the Way for this great eblast covering the USA Science and Engineering Festival! Thanks for getting the word out.
Project Lead The Way, the nation's leading provider of STEM education, is partnering with the USA Science and Engineering Festival to celebrate innovation in Washington, D.C. on October 23 and 24. The festival seeks to re-invigorate the interest of America's youth in STEM education by producing and presenting a compelling, exciting, educational and entertaining science gathering for students. In addition to the two days of exhibits and events in our…
kcollins | June 2, 2010A big shout out to one of our Nifty Fifty speakers Paul Fleisher! Check out his webpage that showcases his involvement with the USA Science and Engineering Festival's Nifty Fifty program.
Paul is an educator who writes books that span from parasites and bad weather to the Big Bang with the intent to engage kids and their imaginations. His motivation to write books comes from wanting "teachers to become more comfortable investigating science with their students; to help children tap into their own curiosity about how the world works; and to integrate stimulating science instruction with the…
kcollins | May 31, 2010Shout out to Science Buddies and their promotion of the USA Science and Engineering Festival and the Kavli Video Contest. Thanks for partnering with the Festival and getting the word out!
National K-12 Science Video Contest
Do you love science? Do you love taking photos and/or making home movies? Have you ever looked at science photos and thought, "Wow... that's so amazing!" Do you hear a soundtrack running in your head for the wonders and mysteries that science lets you explore?
The USA Science & Engineering Festival's Kavli Science Video Contest is a great opportunity for budding…
kcollins | May 20, 2010
Now THIS is what I was writing about in my last post about how YOU can help the science festival. Monty Harper tweets about the festival (@montyharper), submitted a jingle into the festival contest, writes about the festival on his blog born to do science, publisizes the festival by sporting one of our t-shirts AND he is even going to be performing at the Festival in the Fall!! Thanks MONTY for getting the word out about the USA Science and Engineering Festival in so many ways!
From his blog Born to do Science
USA Science and Engineering Festival Theme Song
I'm really excited about this,…
kcollins | May 20, 2010Promethean Planet is also using social media like I was discussing in a recent post about how YOU can help the science festival. They also tweet about the festival regularly @planet_tweets if you want to follow them. Thanks Promethean Planet for helping promote the festival and the Kavli Video contest
Check out one of their most recent promotions of the Kavli Video Contest on their Website:
Science is fun! New festival and video contest
USA Science & Engineering Festival As educators, we are constantly encouraging our students to "think outside the box" and "test out their theories," but…
kcollins | May 10, 2010Shout out to the Innovate-Educate blog for their post on the science festival! Thanks for getting the word out!
Do you have a blog? Want to help us get the word out about the USA Science and Engineering Festival? Blog about the festival and we will give you a shout out and link to you.
From Innovate-Educate blog:
Are you ready for The Woodstock of Science?
Ever wanted to talk with a Nobel Laureate? Did you know red wine goes well with steak, but also has anti-aging properties? Want to uncover the mysteries of baseball's knuckleball?
These and other intriguing questions are answered at the…
kcollins | April 20, 2010Shout out to Fab Lab DC for posting about the USA Science and Engineering Festival last week.
www.fablabdc.org
USA Science & Engineering Festival
Festival Dates: 10/10/10 - 10/24/10
Expo on the National Mall: October 23rd and 24th, 2010
The Inaugural USA Science and Engineering Festival will be the country's first national science festival and will descend on the Washington, D.C. area in the Fall of 2010. The Festival promises to be the ultimate multi-cultural, multi-generational and multi-disciplinary celebration of science in the United States. The culmination of the Festival will be a…
kcollins | April 15, 2010A shout out to Bora over at A Blog Around the Clock for re-posting the press release on the Rubik's Cube Tournament announcing that Professor Erno Rubik will be presenting the awards to the winners!
From A Blog Around the Clock:
Rubik's Cube Tournament - Winners Meet Professor Erno Rubik
Category: Science Education
Posted on: April 14, 2010 8:05 AM, by Coturnix
From the USA Science & Engineering Festival:
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--It's the 30th Anniversary of the Rubik's Cube, and the USA Science & Engineering Festival is planning a You CAN Do the Rubik's Cube tournament in…
kcollins | April 13, 2010Shout out to Community Matters DC who posted about what's going to happen at the USA Science and Engineering Festival in the Fall.
USA Science & Engineering Festival
Festival Dates: 10/10/10 - 10/24/10
Expo on the National Mall: October 23 & 24, 2010
http://www.usasciencefestival.org/
The Inaugural USA Science & Engineering Festival will be the country's first national science festival and will descend on the Washington, D.C. area in the Fall of 2010. The Festival promises to be the ultimate multi-cultural, multi-generational and multi-disciplinary celebration of science in the…
kcollins | April 5, 2010Shout 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 two years ago when I went to FEST in Trieste, Italy? (see pictures and coverage, e.g., this,this, this, this and more). Now nixed by Berlusconi who has other priorities than science, the FEST was one of the most exciting and famous science and technology events in the world. Sad that FEST is no more (…
kcollins | March 12, 2010This 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 if you have written a post about the festival. We will give you a shout out, re-post it here and link to your blog. Thanks!
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From sciencegeek girl's blog post on March 10:
USA Science & Engineering Festival - October in DC
Sorry…
kcollins | March 12, 2010I 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 about the science festival? Contact us if you have written a post about the festival. We will re-post it here and link to your blog. Thanks!
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USA Science and Engineering Festival 2010
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kcollins | February 22, 2010A big shout out to Scientific Blogging 2.0 who is currently covering the AAAS convention in San Diego, CA. We get a little excited around here when we start seeing people talking about the festival mainly because WE are so excited about the festival.
Here is an excerpt from Hank Campbell's post referencing the USA Science and Engineering Festival.
"...[Aimee Stern] was off to meet Larry Bock, the gent who is putting on the USA Science & Engineering Festival, and biology legend Francis Collins at the Pancake House, the unofficial de facto offsite meeting spot of the convention, it seems…