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Marian Bechtel, a 17-year old Hempfield High School student from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, talks with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden about her design for a mine detecting device during a science fair held at the White House on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012 in Washington. Marian’s design could lead to a simple, cheap, and reliable humanitarian demining tool and earned Marian honors as a Finalist at the 2011 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
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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
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.)
My alma mater. The best high school in all of California. This building has loads of bunsen burners, computers, and disectable frogs, and some great teachers that know how to make learning science fun.
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
BREVARD, NC (January 20, 2015) — The best young minds in Transylvania County routinely work out hypotheses and analyze mounds of data to arrive at scientific conclusions. On January 13, the tables were turned and students’ own findings went under the microscope during the 27th Annual Dr. A. Mickey Church Math/Science Fair.
Board of Education Chair Tawny McCoy served as master of ceremonies in the Rogow Room at the Transylvania County Library. McCoy thanked school personnel and parents who make the annual science fair possible at their schools, and on the county level. She said, “I know that many extra hours are needed to have such an event, and I appreciate your efforts.”
Superintendent Jeff McDaris, with board members Marty Griffin and Betty Scruggs, helped hand out awards to winning students. Curriculum Directors Audrey Reneau and Brian Weaver served as Administrators for the jointly held Junior and Senior Science Fair, with coordinators Sheila Byrd and Marilyn Whitmire.
Fifty-two students submitted individual or team projects for the countywide competition. Eight judges spent the previous day reviewing a combined total of 30 projects to determine winners based on fitness for competition at the regional fair.
McCoy noted that the math/science fair would not be possible without significant community support. She thanked the volunteer judges and added, “Our appreciation goes to Ms. Stella Trapp, owner of the Transylvania Times, whose generous donation twenty seven years ago started our countywide fair.”
Medals were then awarded to the following students, who also invited to compete at regionals in February:
Junior Science Fair Winners
Biological Science A
3rd Place: John Nguyen and Bain Brown, BMS – “Shrimp: Brine...or Brawn”
2nd Place: Bobby Brown, BMS – “Assessing the Water Quality of Davidson River During Different Seasons”
1st Place: Emma Dauster, BMS – “The Impact of Controlled Burns on Terrestrial Tardigrade Populations in Dupont State Recreational Forest”
Biological Science B
3rd Place: Kailyn McCall, BMS – “What Time Is It?”
2nd Place: Aubree Williamson, BMS – “Guinea Pig Maze”
1st Place: Clare Kennerly, BMS – “Spoonerisms: A Study of Language”
Chemistry
1st Place: Carly Tabor, BMS – “I'm Melting...Which Building Material Holds up for the Effects of Acid Rain?”
Earth and Environmental Science
1st Place: Fritz Ruppert, BMS – “Are Our Water Woes Caused by Fertilizer Foes?”
Physics
3rd Place: Christian Heath and Gabriel Buenrostro, BMS – “How Does Air Pressure of a Soccer Ball Affect How Far it Goes?”
2nd Place: Kylie Worley and Eda Royer, BMS – “Which Cereal Will Absorb the Most Milk?”
1st Place: Caroline Jones, BMS – “Spinderella”
Technology and Engineering
1st Place: Frank Parsons, BMS – “Better Wi-Fi In Your House”
Senior Science Fair Winners
Biological Science A
3rd Place: Aaron Neumann, Ingrid Findlay, and Hannah Lemel, BHS – “Evaluation of Honey Bee Health in Transylvania County: An Assessment of Varroa destructor and Nosema Levels”
2nd Place: Sam Farrar, Erin Smith, and Cameron McCathern, BHS -- “The Evaluation of Stevia rebaudiana for the Presence of Estrogen-like Compounds”
1st Place: Abby Williams and Carly Onnink, BHS – “Electrantennogram Assays to Determine Megacopta cribraria Response to (E)-2- hexenal, tridecane, and (E)-2-decenal”
Biological Science B
3rd Place: Carver Nichols, BHS – “Agrobacterium-Mediated Stable Transformation of Coleus X Hybridus In Planta Using the Floral Dip Method”
2nd Place: Hannah Field and Ryan Holland, BHS – “Screening Local Lignicolous Fungi for Lignin-Degrading Enzymes”
1st Place: Crista Cali and Sarah Branagan, BHS – “The Search for Pityophthorus juglandis and Associated Geosmithia morbida in Transylvania County, NC”
Chemistry
1st Place: Joseph Roberts, Eliza Witherspoon and Lauren Tooley, BHS – “Evaluation of VOC-producing Diaporthe species for enzyme production”
Earth and Environmental Science
2nd Place: Allison Reece and Lauren DuBreuil, BHS – “The Effect of Antibiotics on the Mortality of the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (Adelges tsugae)”
1st Place: Ryulee Park and Aidan Spradlin, BHS – “Identification and Heavy Metal Remediation Potential of Fungi Isolated from Duke Energy's 1964 Asheville Coal Ash Pond”
Physics
No projects submitted
Technology and Engineering
1st Place: Sam Lemel and Bryce Spradlin, BHS – “Adapting LAMP Assay and Culturing Methods for Use in Detecting Pseudoperonospora humuli in Hops and Pseudoperonospora cubensis in Cucumbers”
The Western North Carolina Regional Science Fair at Western Carolina University will be held on February 10th and 11th. The Regional Math Fair will be held on March 21nd at Appalachian State University.
The North Carolina Science Fair for the entire state will be held March 27th and 28th, at Meredith College in Raleigh, NC.
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A science fair exhibit at the "Introduction to the IAEA: A Seminar for Diplomats" event at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria on 25 August 2017.
Photo Credit: V. Alic/IAEA
Middle school girls from Maywood and Melrose Park participated in the first Science Sisters Day, where they performed hands-on experiments to encourage an interest in the sciences. (Photo by Terence Guider-Shaw)
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Class 442 EMU passes Berlin-Adlershof on the re-opened line from Ostkreuz to Adlershof. The former Academy of Science of the GDR was here, obviously many institutions kept on researching. A Hollywood type of sign was erected, during summer with leafs on the trees a few letters are missing.
Hamsterbacke der DB als RB Eberswalde - Senftenberg am S-Bhf. Berlin-Adlershof
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 BARREL team conducted more tests on their balloon payloads on Aug. 8, 2015, in advance of their NASA Flight Readiness Review (which they passed on the morning, of Monday, Aug. 10.) Greg Bowers, a doctoral candidate at the University of California at Santa Cruz, is shown here setting up the payloads on the balloon launch pad at the Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, Sweden
The NASA-funded BARREL – which stands for Balloon Array for Radiation-belt Relativistic Electron Losses – measures electrons in the atmosphere near the poles. Such electrons rain down into the atmosphere from two giant radiation belts surrounding Earth, called the Van Allen belts. For its third campaign, BARREL is launching six balloons from the Esrange Space Center. BARREL is led by Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Credit: NASA/Dartmouth/Kathryn Waychoff
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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