kcollins | October 10, 2010Thanks to Festival Partner University of Maryland for helping us get the word out about the Festival and the Powers of Ten Concert and Streaming it LIVE!
Find out more here on their website.
USA Science & Engineering Festival Opens with Live Powers of Ten Concert
Festival of Science and Technology - Opening Program: The Powers of Ten - A Journey in Song from Quark to Cosmos.WHAT:
Powers of Ten - A Journey in Song from Quark to Cosmos : Opening program of the USA Science & Engineering Festival.
WHEN:
Sunday, October 10, 2010, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
WHERE:
Elsie and Marvin…
kcollins | October 9, 2010Shout out to EE Times Group for getting the word out about the Festival.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- EE Times Group, a UBM company and the daily source of essential business and technical information for the electronics industry's decision makers, today announced its plans for the USA Science & Engineering Festival, a two-week celebration of science in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, which begins on October 10, 2010. The festival will offer…
kcollins | October 9, 2010This is a great shout out and an example of how to help reach a diverse audience. Truth2beingfit saw Larry's letter and decided to post it on her website even though her website is all about fitness. This is an excellent way to get the word out. Thanks Truth2beingfit!!
On to the assistance I need from you regarding this: The USA Science & Engineering Festival - what I hope will be the country's largest celebration of science and engineering -- a FUN, entertaining, educational and FREE event geared toward reinvigorating the interest of Americans in the Sciences.
This is NOT a political…
kcollins | October 9, 2010Thanks to NCSA for their mention of the USA Science and Engineering Festival on their webpage. Find the full article here.
What is the universe made of? What do engineers have to do with baseball? What is a supercomputer and how do scientists use them? Find out at the first ever USA Science & Engineering Festival Expo on the National Mall Oct. 23-24!
Children, families, and all with curious minds are invited to explore science and engineering with over 1,500 free, hands-on activities and over 50 stage shows. Build an underwater robot, chat with a Nobel Laureate, explore the science…
kcollins | October 9, 2010This is a bit amazing. Check out the original post here.
It's a method of art reminiscent of Jackson Pollack's abstract drip paintings. Just more suited to the less squeamish.
Erin Watson uses blow fly larvae -- maggots -- to get kids excited about painting. Judging by her upcoming educational demonstration project on the National Mall, it's working.
"Maggot art," the brainchild of Southeastern Louisiana University biologist Watson, works like this. With kids watching her, Watson drops diluted water-based poster paint onto paper. She then places the maggots into the paint drops. Next, the…
kcollins | October 8, 2010Shoutout to DC Geology Events for getting the word out about the Festival! Thanks for helping promote the festival.
Read the full post here.
Why have a Science Festival? Society gets what it celebrates! As a culture, we celebrate movie stars, rock stars and athletes and we generate a lot of them, but we don't celebrate science and engineering.
The Festival is analogous to an art, music or literary Festival but it is focused on Science and Engineering and accomplishes its mission via hands-on demonstrations, fun demos, and presentations including art, music, comedy, film and theater.
kcollins | October 8, 2010WE.NEED.YOUR.HELP!!!
Constellation Energy is running a "tweet" a promotion of the USA Science Festival and the Constellation E2 Grants program until next Friday Oct 15th. For each twitter user's "re-tweet" constillation Energy will donate $10 to the USA Science Festival (up to $10,000). And here is something to sweeten the deal. For every $10 raised, the Festival will match $10 so we have the potential of raising $20,000!! This money will be used for bus grants for inner city Washington DC students to come to the Expo. If we can get 1000 RTs, that means $20,000 to bring 4000 student to the…
kcollins | October 7, 2010Thanks Technology News for helping get the word out.
Read the full article here.
WASHINGTON - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Starting today, about 6,000 middle and high school students from across the United States will share brown bag lunches with over 20 Nobel Laureates.
This special highlight of the USA Science & Engineering Festival kicks off with a visit to Bladensburg High School in Maryland today by Dr. William Phillips, who won the Nobel Prize in 1997 for discovering a way to cool and trap atoms with laser light that aids in navigation through space. Dr. Phillips works for the U.S. National…
kcollins | October 7, 2010Thanks COPUS for helping us get the word out about the Science festival! Read the full article here.
Help science by celebrating with the USA Science and Engineering Festival and COPUS
Four easy options to help bring science to center stage this October!!
1. Connect your local activities to the festival -- no matter how big or small
The impact of many organizations working together is much greater than an individual effort... and easier! COPUS encourages organizations and individuals to coordinate activities in their community with the USASEF -- no matter how big or small. IT IS NOT TOO…
kcollins | October 7, 2010Shoutout to Science Cheerleaders who are coming to the Festival! Read about them here.
Science Cheerleader Performance at the USA Science and Engineering Festival, in D.C.!
These professional cheerleaders-turned-scientists and engineers challenge stereotypes while helping to inspire young women to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.
At the USA Science and Engineering Festival, October 23-24 in D.C., these women will perform science-themed routines for thousands of people, conduct a free cheer clinic, and meet the public, sign their Science Cheerleader cards, and…
kcollins | October 7, 2010Shout out to NSTA and their blog post about the USA Science and Engineering Festival. Thanks for helping us get the word out.
Read the full article here.
I'm looking forward to the USA Science and Engineering Festival Expo in Washington, D.C., on the National Mall on October 23 and 24 from 10am to 5:30pm. Hosted by Lockheed Martin, the Expo is the free grand finale for a nationwide festival that begins on October 10 with activities across the nation. With over 1,500 fun, hands-on interactive activities, and 75 stage shows for all ages, there will be a lot to choose from. One way to navigate…
kcollins | October 6, 2010Shout out to Northern Illinois University and their Satellite event. Read about it here.
Two years ago, NIU's popular Haunted Physics Laboratory was supersized into Spooky Science Saturday. Now the event, which uses Halloween themes to teach young people about the wonders of science, is about to get exponentially bigger.spooky cauldron
NIU is gearing up to hold its first Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) festival from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, at the NIU Convocation Center.
Open to the public, STEMfest 2010 will feature spooky science demonstrations from years past…
kcollins | October 6, 2010The inaugural USA Science & Engineering Festival received the official stamp of approval from both Houses of Congress recently when the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate each passed resolutions honoring and supporting the goals of the nationwide event.
In doing so, the House of Representatives approved H. Res 1660, and the Senate unanimously agreed to its version of this resolution by passing S. Res 656.
We are extremely happy about these developments since Congressional recognition of the importance of science and engineering to future American competitiveness can help us…
kcollins | October 5, 2010Shoutout to DC Metro Mommy for her blog post covering the USA Science and Engineering Festival. Thanks for helping us get the word out! Find the blog post here.
Don't Miss The Biggest Free National Science Expo Ever! The first USA Science & Engineering Festival will be held October 10-24, 2010 throughout Washington, DC. More than 550 science and engineering companies, professional associations, colleges and universities, K-12 schools and other organizations are participating in two weeks of events including brown bag lunches for students with Nobel Laureates, more than 50 scientists…
kcollins | October 5, 2010Shout out to one of our Satellite Events in Idaho for a recent posting about their festival.
You can read their full story here.
POCATELLO - Idaho State University's Pocatello campus is hosting the 2010 Idaho Science and Engineering Festival on Oct 23 and is looking for additional groups to host scientific demonstration booths. The deadline for booth applications is Oct. 1.
The Idaho festival is a satellite event that corresponds with the inaugural national USA Science and Engineering Festival being held in Washington, D.C., Oct. 10-24. The national festival ends with a two-day Expo on the…
kcollins | October 5, 2010Check out this article in the Huffinton Post by one of the USA Science and Engineering Festival's Nifty Fifty speakers Alan I. Leshner.
One of the most impressive aspects of the human origins exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History -- along with the only Neanderthal skeleton in the United States and realistic reconstructions of our ancestors -- is the completely interactive character of the hall. Visitors are encouraged to engage with trained volunteers, create self-portraits of themselves as early hominids, and, most importantly, to question what it means to be…
kcollins | October 4, 2010A BIG shoutout to one of our Sponsors, Scientific American for a recent blog post covering the USA Science and Engineering Festival. Thanks for helping us get the word out to all of your readers! Check out the full article here.
Mark your calendars: for two weeks in October, the U.S. celebrates science with a nationwide effort. Festivities kick off on October 10 with a concert of science songs performed by 200 children and adults at the University of Maryland. Events follow on each day--see the calendar here--and culminate in the free, two-day Expo on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.,…
kcollins | October 4, 2010
Entry: Science Knows it All
Belén Mella
What is your age?
I am 13 years old.
Where do you go to school?
I go to school at Sunny Isles Beach Community School K-8, a public school in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
What do you plan to study in college?
At 13 years old, my mind changes faster than I can realize (science will probably have an explanation for why exactly that happens), even on matters as transcendental as what I want to study in college and ultimately what I want to do for the rest of my life! Nevertheless, precisely as I answer this question, I want to study communications or…
kcollins | October 1, 2010BIG shoutout to the The Epoch Times! They have a lot of great pictures from our recent press conference and a great article about the USA Science and Engineering Festival. Below is an introduction to the article or you can read it all here. Thanks Epoch Times for being a Sponsor of the USA Science and Engineering Festival and publishing such a piece about the Festival.
Written By Du Won Kang
Epoch Times Staff
(pictures from Epoch Times article)
WASHINGTON--"We are going to put on the largest science and engineering party that the United States has ever seen," said Larry Bock, Executive…
kcollins | September 29, 2010Read about Bart Gordon's support of the USA Science and Engineering Festival in House resolution 1660 and watch it below
As prepared for delivery
Madam Speaker, I rise today in strong support of H.Res. 1660, a resolution supporting the goals and ideals of the inaugural USA Science and Engineering Festival.
I want to congratulate the gentleman from California (Mr. Bilbray) for introducing this resolution.
A number of much-publicized studies have shown that the mathematics and science achievement of American students is poor by international standards. There is a dark cloud over the future of…