kcollins | April 26, 2010Just four more days to get your jingles put together and uploaded. Next week will be the "American Idol" of the USA Science and Engineering Festival when our finalists will go to a public VOTE to help us decide on the best jingle!! Yes...YOU dear readers will get to help decide on the USA Science and Engineering Festival's jingle.
So...here are some details:Prize for the winning Jingle: $500 (and knowing that your Jingle will be heard and sung by hundreds of thousands of science enthusiasts across the country)
Submission Deadline: April 30, 2010-->THIS FRIDAY!
How to submit your jingle to…
kcollins | April 26, 2010Don't miss the 2010 Excellence in Environmental Engineering Awards Luncheon and Conference Wednesday, April 28th at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, from 11:30 am to 4:45 pm. The keynote speaker is Major General Jeffrey Talley, Ph.D., P.E., Chair and Professor, Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering, Southern Methodist University. His topic is "Building Communities, Baghdad and Beyond."
A Technical Conference w/Q&A of five outstanding presentations follows the luncheon and recognition of individual and project awards. The package price including reception and plated…
kcollins | April 23, 2010My first impression of physics was rather dull. It reminded me a bit of the dreaded 'word' problems that are prevalent in any math class except, every problem was a word problem. Having done my graduate work in polymer physics, I eventually discovered that physics is quite cool, but many of us have had experiences that are more like Sheldon teaching Penny physics in The Big Bang Theory, and less like the USA Science and Engineering Festival's Nifty Fifty speaker, Dr. Jim Kaklios at the University of Minnosota who can take the story lines from superhero books and apply the relevant physics to…
kcollins | April 21, 2010For two weeks I posted about the Spirit of Innovation Conrad awards and all of the cool stuff that these students were inventing. I urged all you, dear readers, to go vote for the people's choice award. Maybe you are now asking yourself: Well...who won?
The following recipients were announced to be the 2010 Pete Conrad Scholars: Falcon Robotics (aerospace), Green MAST (green schools), ACWa (renewable energy) and AM Rocks (space nutrition).
And the the People's Choice Award was bestowed on the team with the largest percentage of votes cast during the online, public voting period. The top vote…
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 19, 2010Come and meet Science Composer David Haines: Wednesday April 21st any time from 4.30 to 6pm at the Koshlan Science Museum, National Academy of Sciences, corner of 6th and E NW, across from the Verizon Centre.
If you are a teacher at any level of the education system, a choral director, a member of any kind of chorus - religious, community, classical, ethnic - a scientist wishing to explore new ways of engaging our communities with the wonders of science, or if you're simply curious to know what songs about science sound like, come along and meet David.
David is seeking choirs and schools (…
kcollins | April 16, 2010
Why IS Science Cool? Have you ever pondered that question? Ever want to tell the world why you think that Science is Cool? I think science is COOL because through science I can find the answer to my hundreds of questions of why? Why is the sky blue but sunsets have colors? Why don't birds fall out of the sky? Why doesn't silly putty stay in the shape I put it? I love the question why and LOVE that I can find many of these answers through science and if I can't find the answer? I know I can set up an experiment to try to figure it out!!
Now YOU have the opportunity to answer that burning…
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 14, 2010There is still lots of time to enter your team into the You CAN do the Rubik's cube competition and start practicing for the USA Science and Engineering Festival's competition this fall. Check out the video below about a recent You CAN do the Rubik's cube competition at the San Diego Science Festival. Pretty amazing watching those kids solve the puzzles!
BUT we have an exciting announcement about the competition at the USA Science and Engineering Festival ...are you ready? Dr.Rubik, the inventor of the Rubik's cube, IS COMING TO THE FESTIVAL FOR HIS FIRST PUBLIC APPEARANCE AT A STUDENT…
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, 2010http://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…
lbock | April 12, 2010A few months ago, I told a well-connected colleague about the USA Science & Engineering Festival. He asked me how he could help and I suggested he help us spread the word. Well, he enthusiastically sent out a blast and I was copied on his email to about forty scientists.
One of the recipients responded to the email, almost instantaneously, saying that he had visited our website and saw a link to our jingle contest. His complaint to the email list was: "What has science come to? Do we really need a jingle contest?" I must admit that I was taken aback as I had initiated the contest…
kcollins | April 9, 2010TODAY is the last day to vote for 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 three divisions are Aerospace, Renewable/Green and Space Nutrition. Wednesday I covered Aerospace Finalists, Yesterday I covered the Renewable/Green Finalist and Today (the last day to VOTE) I am covering the finalist in the Space Nutrition category.Here are the teams that are the Space Nutrition Finalists…
kcollins | April 9, 2010I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.~Marie Curie
Unfortunately sometimes in communicating the excitement of science to those that are not in science fields we somehow lose... well the excitement. To me, a new idea births a childlike curiosity and EXCITEMENT as it takes up residence in my brain and dances around. When I have a day like that, it is exhilarating.Today was one of those days where an observation turned into an idea…
kcollins | April 8, 2010Only TWO 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 three divisions are Aerospace, Renewable/Green and Space Nutrition. Yesterday I covered Aerospace Finalists, Today I am covering the Renewable/Green Finalist and Tomorrow (the last day to vote) I will be covering the Finalist in the Space Nutrition category.Here are the teams that are the Renewable/Green…
kcollins | 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 projects or participatory research) and enlists volunteers to get their hands dirty with science. Discover Magazine calls it the Amazon.com of citizen science, Innocentive gave it two big thumbs up on Monday, and this week, the NSF Science and Media site said "Sci4Cits may be the solution to…
kcollins | April 7, 2010Only 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 three divisions are Aerospace, Renewable/Green and Space Nutrition. Today, Tomorrow and Friday (the last day to vote) I will have videos that go with the finalists in each division.Here are the teams that are the Aerospace Finalists. Make sure you go and VOTE (Click on the big red button to vote). You…
kcollins | April 5, 2010Only 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!
ARCSat: Attitude quick-Reaction Control Satellite
The Sun Sailors: Creating an innovative way to harness the sun's energy using magnetic and solar sails.
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 | 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 permission to feature it on the Festival's website. Find out more information on how to order a "I AM A SCIENTIST" or "I AM AN ENGINEER" or "CELEBRATE SCIENCE" t-shirt here. Have a future engineer or scientist who might enjoy a:"FUTURE ENGINEER" or "FUTURE SCIENTIST" t-shirt? Get them a t-shirt and send…
kcollins | April 5, 2010The 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 their idea for harvesting Highway Windpower
This is Team Rocket's Video Skit for the Space Nutrition Category of the Conrad Awards. Our Product: Peanut Butter Rocket Chips Our team is participating in the space nutrition category of Conrad Awards; our objective is to develop a nutrition bar for…