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St. Agnes Academy and Strake Jesuit College Preparatory students teach girls about how to discover and get excited about their potential in STEM.
(Houston, Texas) - - Spectrum #3847, St. Agnes Academy and Strake Jesuit College Preparatory students, shows Girl’s Inc-Houston Camp SMART! how to discover and get excited about their potential in science, technology, engineering and math. The girls, ages 12-15, were engaged in building their first VEX IQ robot with the help of their Spectrum #3847 coaches. They learned how to build a robot, operate it and see first hand how much fun STEM can be. Allen Gregory, Spectrum #3847 coach, taught engineering principles and an overview of STEM fields.
Spectrum #3847 is made up of high school students from St. Agnes Academy and Strake Jesuit College Preparatory two Catholic college preparatory schools in southwest Houston, Texas. St. Agnes is all-girls, and Strake Jesuit is all-boys. www.spectrum3847.org
My portrait of the artist 'Comet' made it to a photo contest. Would you be so kind to vote for it?
Thanks!
The IREX World Smarts STEM Challenge contest and showcase at the Washington, D.C. Shoreham Hotel on Saturday March 18, 2017.
From July 29 - Aug 2, ASAS Chicago hosted STEM CampUs at Illinois Institute of Technology. Sponsored by Teza Technologies, STEM CampUs focused on high school, college and career readiness, with a specific focus on entrepreneurship and the STEM fields.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – USACE South Pacific Division Commander Brig. Gen. Mark Toy presents Jarek Kwiecinski a certificate recognizing his achievement in this year’s Central New Mexico Science and Engineering Research Challenge, held March 12-14 at the University of New Mexico. Kwiecinski placed first in the Senior Division – Environmental category. The Challenge is part of Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair’s (Intel ISEF) Research Challenges which is the world’s largest international pre-college science competition. More than 1,700 high school students from over 70 countries, regions, and territories are awarded the opportunity to showcase their independent research and compete for more than $5 million in prizes.
Last Tuesday I visited the nursery at my local park for the first time this year.
They were preparing the gardens for the 2010 season and in the heated houses I found this beautiful Orchid that was just begging to be photographed.
Orchidaceae are well known for the many structural variations in their flowers.
Some orchids have single flowers but most have a racemose inflorescence, sometimes with a large number of flowers. The flowering stem can be basal, that is produced from the base of the tuber, like in Cymbidium, apical, meaning it grows from the apex of the main stem, like in Cattleya, or axillary, from the leaf axil, as in Vanda.
As an apomorphy of the clade, orchid flowers are primitively zygomorphic (bilaterally symmetrical), although in some genera like Mormodes, Ludisia, Macodes this kind of symmetry may be difficult to notice.
The orchid flower, like most flowers of monocots has two whorls of sterile elements. The outer whorl has three sepals and the inner whorl has three petals. The sepals are usually very similar to the petals (and thus called tepals,), but may be completely distinct.
The upper medial petal, called the labellum or lip,, is always modified and enlarged. The inferior ovary or the pedicel usually rotates 180 degrees, so that the labellum, goes on the lower part of the flower, thus becoming suitable to form a platform for pollinators. This characteristic, called resupination occurs primitively in the family and is considered apomorphic (the torsion of the ovary is very evident from the picture). Some orchids have secondarily lost this resupination, e. g. Zygopetalum and Epidendrum secundum.
The normal form of the sepals can be found in Cattleya, where they form a triangle. In Paphiopedilum (Venus slippers) the lower two sepals are fused together into a synsepal, while the lip has taken the form of a slipper. In Masdevallia all the sepals are fused.
this was the first picture I took after getting my little 4gig memory card at RadioShack (because I forgot mine at home in my computer =P )
p.s. Tomorow I'm thinkin bubble bath =)
From July 29 - Aug 2, ASAS Chicago hosted STEM CampUs at Illinois Institute of Technology. Sponsored by Teza Technologies, STEM CampUs focused on high school, college and career readiness, with a specific focus on entrepreneurship and the STEM fields.