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Computer Science activities at the UBC Science Rendezvous.
Some of our amazing volunteer crew putting up our lovingly crafted signage.
Young women tour the NMCD Hot Cell facilities as part of an education program through INL.
For more information about Idaho National Laboratory's nuclear material characterization capabilities, visit our website at www.inl.gov/nmcd.
Took the boy to the Museum of Science on Saturday. At the Human Body exhibit, a young woman was showing a heart / lung system. At first I thought it was plastic, but it turned out to be the heart and lungs of a sheep.
Paying a visit to California Science Center on Saturday, 13 October 2012, as I await its latest spacecraft arrival, Space Shuttle Endeavour, scheduled for the evening. (As it would turn out, the Space Shuttle would not arrive until midday the next day.)
California Science Center already has other key American manned spacecraft, and adding Endeavour would very nicely complement the existing collection.
In front is an Apollo command module; intended to be Apollo 18 and flown to the moon in 1973, it instead became a spare when Apollo was terminated after Apollo 17, and it was launched on a smaller Saturn 1B rocket in 1975 for docking with a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. At the termination of the Apollo program, there were three spare Saturn V rockets and Apollo spacecraft, that would've allowed three extra trips to the moon; one of the surplus Saturn Vs was used to launch the Skylab space station, and the other two Apollo - Saturn V combinations are preserved at Johnson Space Center in Houston and Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Just behind the Apollo is the Gemini 11 capsule. Smaller than the Apollo, it had room for two astronauts, who lived aboard for two days; even the act of standing up would have required the opening of a hatch and a spacewalk.
Behind the Gemini, and not visible, is a single-passenger Mercury capsule. This museum's Mercury is the Mercury-Redstone 2, which made a 16-minute suborbital space flight in 1961 with a chimpanzee on board, in preparation for a human flight. While this was not the first spaceship to fly with a live animal on board (the Soviets had Sputnik II, with a dog on board, in 1958), it was the first spaceship to bring that animal back alive (Sputnik II had no provisions for returning the dog to Earth alive - the dog died in orbit).
Photos for work from the 7th annual Des Moines Public Schools Science Fair. More than 200 students in grades 6-12 presented their research for a chance to go on to the Iowa State Science Fair. A lot of smart, confident kids all in one place.
Dreyfuss + Blackford Architecture’s design for the Powerhouse Science Center re-envisions a historic riverfront structure as a hub for science education, exploration and promotion in the City of Sacramento. On the banks of the Sacramento River, the Science Center grows out from an abandoned power station building. As a principal component of the Riverfront activation, the Powerhouse Science Center anchors Robert T. Matsui Waterfront Park and borders the southern terminus of the 32-mile American River Bike Trail.
Vacant for over half a century, the structure undergoes a complete historic rehabilitation and the construction of a new floor level inside. A new two-story addition projects from the east side, containing a lobby, classrooms, offices and a cafe. A 110-seat planetarium is prominently on display with a zinc-clad hemispheric dome rising above the building’s mass. As representation of our place in the universe, the facade and building mass is sectioned by multiple planes, creating continuous vector lines that extend across the building and site. From satellites to world landmarks, the lines form connections with local and global points of interest.
The original PG&E Power Station B was designed in 1912 in the Beaux Arts Style by architect Willis Polk and was formally closed in 1954. It is on the National Register of Historic Places, California Register of Historic Places and the Sacramento Register of Historic & Cultural Resources. The Powerhouse Science Center is designed to achieve a USGBC LEED Rating of Silver.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Visitor Center in Greenbelt, Md. hosted a special Webb Family Science Night on Wednesday, July 25, 2012.
Participants partook in hands-on activities to see what light looks like after it passes through lenses. By putting one lens in front of another, they made a telescope. Although Webb is not a telescope that will use a lens to collect its light, participants were able to build a telescope of similar ability to that of Galileo’s.
This special Webb Family Science Night was a hands-on and inquiry-based program designed for middle school students and their families, intended to increase STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) engagement, interest, and understanding. The Webb Family Science Night was a collaboration between NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Goddard’s Office of Education. The educational materials supporting this event were donated by SPIE – the International Society for Photonics and Optics.
Image credit: Pat Izzo
The Science Carnival is sponsored by the CSU Channel Islands science departments under the leadership of Dr. Phil Hampton, Professor of Chemistry. This annual event first started in Fall 2009 with approximately 250 preschool through eighth (PK-8) grade students attending the event. Over 2200 PK-8 students and their families attended the 2016 Science Carnival.
Near the end of the summer, I was asked by the publishers of Popular Science magazine to produce a visualization piece that explored the archive of their publication. PopSci has a history that spans almost 140 years, so I knew there would be plenty of material to draw from. Working with Mark Hansen, I ended up making a graphic that showed how different technical and cultural terms have come in and out of use in the magazine since it's inception.
Retreat Hundredpics Challenge
Day 13
Submitted to Flickr Monthly Scavenger Hunt for December2008 under I want it all
Ah, Science fiction crime and mystery... that popular genre
Near the end of the summer, I was asked by the publishers of Popular Science magazine to produce a visualization piece that explored the archive of their publication. PopSci has a history that spans almost 140 years, so I knew there would be plenty of material to draw from. Working with Mark Hansen, I ended up making a graphic that showed how different technical and cultural terms have come in and out of use in the magazine since it's inception.
Near the end of the summer, I was asked by the publishers of Popular Science magazine to produce a visualization piece that explored the archive of their publication. PopSci has a history that spans almost 140 years, so I knew there would be plenty of material to draw from. Working with Mark Hansen, I ended up making a graphic that showed how different technical and cultural terms have come in and out of use in the magazine since it's inception.
I've recently joined the Council of Science Editors, and just got my first back issues of the journal a few days ago. Woo hoo!
(I've also joined the European Association of Science Editors, but it'll take a while longer to get my back issues.)
Using Arduino to get the cost of probeware down (for science education).
Vernier's cheapest interface is $61 and handles one sensor: www.vernier.com/mbl
Arduino Uno is $30 and has 6 analog inputs: www.sparkfun.com/products/9950
Our goal is to interoperate with this curriculum: www.concord.org/activities/research-focus/probeware
An international team of researchers announced the observation of a dynamic Mott transition in a superconductor. The discovery experimentally connects the worlds of classical and quantum mechanics and illuminates the mysterious nature of the Mott transition. It also could shed light on non-equilibrium physics, which is poorly understood but governs most of what occurs in our world. The finding may also represent a step towards more efficient electronics based on the Mott transition. Read more »
This figure illustrates the movement of vortices as the material changes from insulating to conducting (metallic). Image courtesy Valerii Vinokur/Science.
Science Faculty members including Brenda Wiens, Ramon Selove, Kathy Ware, Jim Crowley, Rob and Ann Simpson, Elisabeth Dingess, Jan McLaughlin, Brian Wilcox, Ernie Grisdale, Raymond Rogers, Sam Dillender, Butch Austin, Jeff Hollar, Ebrahim Abdurahiman, and Donna Burge
Our teachers received professional development from trainers that came to us from the Carnegie Science Museum in Pittsburgh. The session had "hands on"activities and was quite interesting.
I was really impressed with their van and would love to get the chance to drive it around!!
100 Pictures in 2010 Project #38 Transportation