SCIENCE

Brady Archer was awarded the Colorado Association of Science Teacher’s award and the Doug Steward Memorial award for his accomplishments at the state science fair. This year, seven middle school student and one high school student competed at the State level. The last grand award was Cuinn Archer, who built an automatic plant waterer that he designed and made with a 3D printed.
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1 year ago Read more at The Journal

Voyager 1 is the most distant spacecraft from Earth. It stopped sending back understandable data last November. Flight controllers traced the blank communication to a bad computer chip. The team is still working to restore transmission of science data.
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1 year ago Read more at ABC News

Beacon Academy Science Olympiad team earned a bid to the Illinois State competition at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The event was held this past weekend with 25 high school teams in Division A from across the state that competed in a series of events that are a balance between various disciplines.
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1 year ago Read more at Evanston RoundTable

The Saskatchewan Science Centre has reached its 35-year milestone. This week, the science centre is hosting a week-long celebration. Story continues below advertisement The story started back in 1978.
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1 year ago Read more at Global News

The National Science Foundation awarded a team led by Professor Ajay Gopinathan and Carrie Kouadio funding to establish a summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates program at UC Merced. Interdisciplinary Biological Engineering and Science Training (I-BEST) program is affiliated with the CREST Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Machines (CCBM) CCBM already has one undergraduate academic-year fellowship program and one established summer research program focused on local students.
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1 year ago Read more at University of California, Merced

Hall of Heroes, Mid-America Science Museum’s new traveling exhibit, opens to the public on Saturday, May 25th. The exhibit explores the history and science of superheroes through interactive programming, movie props, replicas, and rare artifacts from past and present major motion pictures and television shows. Presented by Visit Hot Springs with additional support from Allen Tillery and Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort.
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1 year ago Read more at Arkadelphian

Bethany Kwan, PhD, MSPH, associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and an ACCORDS investigator received a $2.1 million funding award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Their new research study, ‘Characterizing Engagement and Equity in Research’ (CHEER), aims to find the best engagement methods for diverse research topics and communities. Kwan and Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH/MSPH, were working on Data Science to Patient Value (D2V
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1 year ago Read more at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

The Department of Information and Computer Sciences ( ICS) has increased its efforts to showcase its STEM opportunities to Hawaii keiki. In April, ICS students and faculty welcomed haumna (students) from Farrington High School’s computer science club to the Mnoa campus.
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1 year ago Read more at University of Hawaii System

Lester Mackey and Naomi Shah have joined the Society’s National Leadership Council (NLC) Formed in 2018, the Society comprises alumni from the Society's three science competitions. The Science Talent Search, the International Science and Engineering Fair and its middle school science research competitions are formed in 2018. The Society is currently a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research.
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1 year ago Read more at Science News for Students

NASA is lagging behind other countries, and it needs more urgency to address this pressing issue of pollution in orbit. "I’m very happy to see that NASA’s doing this. But I think it’s very important to see whether Congress gives them the budget to actually do anything differently," says Darren McKnight.
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1 year ago Read more at National Geographic