kcollins | June 24, 2010Project Lead The Way (PLTW), a USA Science & Engineering Festival Partner, is bringing together some of the best and brightest minds in the STEM community for its 2010 PLTW Innovation Summit. The Summit takes place October 20-22 in Washington, DC, in conjunction with our Festival on the National Mall. PLTW's Innovation Summit is a great opportunity to learn about STEM education best practices and interact with some of the nation's leading STEM educators and advocates.
The Summit will bring together STEM-related industry representatives, public and private educational agencies,…
kcollins | June 23, 2010
Do you have what it takes to be a Nerd Girl? Do you want to use your engineering skills to make a difference? Do you want to change the way the world views women in engineering? Do you want to be a part of a major movement to provide young girls with positive role models, while building an amazing resume?
The Nerd Girls are now casting for the NEW TV SERIES produced by MPH Entertainment, best known for their Emmy-nominated hit show "Dog Whisperer with Cesar Milan." Dr. Karen Panetta, founder of Nerd Girls, has been encouraging young women to change their world through science, technology,…
kcollins | June 22, 2010Tell us now and we will turn your answers into a beautiful Word Cloud! Deadline to submit is June 30. See the results in the next newsletter!
Over the next few months, we will create multiple "Word Clouds" aka "Wordles" showcasing your answers to questions relating to science & engineering. On October 23, Satellite Event attendees around the nation will participate in a nationwide Wordle: see it change on our website as people enter their answers!
Wordle.net is toy to create beautiful word clouds from text. The word clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in…
kcollins | June 21, 2010
If you have been putting off making your video of why you think Science is Cool you have a little more time to spare. The Kavli Science Video Contest has been extended until Aug 31st. Make sure you don't miss the deadline. There are cash prizes up for grabs and a chance to meet the Mythbusters! So...hurry and get filming!
kcollins | June 18, 2010
Have you created your video yet about why you think Science is Cool? Kavli Foundation is sponsoring a very cool contest and you have just under a month left to get your video ready for the contest! July 15 is the deadline. Find out more about the contest and how to submit your entry here. What are you waiting for?
lbock | June 14, 2010Nobel Laureate Richard Smalley said, "By the year 2010, 90 percent of the world's scientists and engineers will live in Asia."
Right now, 85 percent of people being trained in the advanced physical sciences in the U.S. are here on temporary education visas from abroad. Many of them end up going home and taking all that scientific knowledge with them.
It used to be that the "American Dream," American lifestyles, and American opportunities would seduce these brilliant minds from all over the world to stay and contribute their genius to America's growth and advancement. But now these scientific…
kcollins | June 11, 2010Reposted from Business Wire
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In a massive effort to ignite a passion for science and engineering in middle and high school students, the USA Science & Engineering Festival will send more than fifty top scientists and engineers into local schools this October 10-24, 2010. The hope is that meeting scientists and engineers who love what they do, will help students embrace these disciplines and consider careers in them.
The Nifty Fifty, as they are called, were carefully chosen from hundreds of applicants for their differing fields, talents, divergent backgrounds…
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 7, 2010 We are proud to welcome 4-H - a long-time national youth development program which engages students in science, technology and other life skill experiences through "learning by doing" - as a partner in the USA Science and Engineering Festival. As part of their commitment to STEM programs for youth, 4-H will be exhibiting at the Festival and helping us get the word out about the Expo and the Kavli Science Video Contest.
In advance of the USA Science & Engineering festival, 4-H will be hosting the third annual 4-H National Youth Science Day (NYSD). This 4-H event will engage youth from…
kcollins | June 4, 2010.
The Kavli Foundation is one of the USA Science and Engineering Festival's sponsors and they are sponsoring a very cool video contest for K-12 students this fall.
If you have an interest in making a video about why science is cool, find out more about that here.
But the very exciting news today by the Kavli Foundation was the announcement of the 2010 Kavli Prize winners!!
Richard Scheller who is on the Advisory Board of the Festival and is the Head of Research for Festival Sponsor Genentech was announced as one of the winners. Congratulations!
Here is a bit of a press release about the…
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 28, 2010Maybe you are a little like me when you wonder how exactly do biologists manage to get proteins to make crystals? How DOES that happen? I've heard it is a little complicated but have wondered how one would go about doing it. Here is one of the USA Science and Engineering Festival's performers explaining protein crystallography in a very unique way. Check out the Science Rapper and his rap below.
kcollins | May 26, 2010RUBIK'S CUBE!!
Yes TODAY is the Rubik's Cube's 30th birthday. Happy Birthday!
And we will be having a Rubik's cube tournament at the USA Science and Engineering Festival for K-12 students. You have until Oct 1st to enter and it's free! So get practicing and get your teams together. Dr. Erno Rubik, the inventor of the Rubik's cube, will be there to hand out the prizes.
kcollins | May 26, 2010
Are your students inspired about science, engineering, and cool classroom technology? Can they show and tell the world why?
If so, encourage them to enter the USA Science & Engineering Festival Kavli Science Video Contest and they could win a trip to Washington, D.C. for the Festival Expo! Other cool prizes include electronics gift certificates or tickets for a VIP event to meet the Mythbusters!
To enter, students create a short video that explores the question: "Why is Science Cool?" Videos might explore a scientific concept; show the wonders of nature; give a glimpse into the future;…
kcollins | May 24, 2010
Who inspired you into science? Was it a teacher? A parent? A Student? Learn a little more about Nobel Laureate Peter Agre who will be participating in the USA Science and Engineering Festival's Lunch with a Laureate program where small groups of middle and high school students will get to engage in an informal conversation with a Nobel Prize winning Scientist over a brown bag lunch. One of our Laureates this year is Dr. Peter Agre. Dr. Agre was awarded the Nobel prize in 2003 along with Roderick MacKinnon for their work on channels in membranes. Here are two videos to introduce Dr. Agre…
kcollins | May 21, 2010
Inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers in your ActivClassroom by encouraging students to participate in the first USA Science & Engineering Festival, held October 10-24, 2010. The festival creates a new model for celebrating science and engineering across the country.
Two weeks of science events across Virgina, Maryland and Washington, D.C. lead up to a two-day Expo on the National Mall October 23-24, 2010. More than 400 of the nation's leading science and engineering organizations are already part of the festival, hosted by Lockheed Martin.
The Expo will help families…
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 18, 2010I am going to make a little confession here, I love science and I really love working for the USA Science and Engineering festival. Why? I am passionate about getting science into our culture in a hands-on way and making people say: wow...science is cool AND fun.But one thing I have found about working for the Festival in its inaugural year, not everyone is aware of the festival and I want to change that.
Do YOU love science? Do YOU use social media? Are YOU interested in helping the USA Science and Engineering festival? You CAN in a variety of different ways. Check this video out first.
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