Tag: STEM education
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NASA gives a lift to 57 high-flying student experiments, including one from the Seattle area
NASA launches a Raven Aerostar high-altitude balloon. (NASA Photo / Bill Rodman) NASA has chosen 57 winning teams — including a team from Interlake High School in Bellevue, Wash.— to receive funding to build and fly experiments focusing on subjects ranging from lunar dust mitigation to inkjet printing in zero gravity. Interlake’s team will focus…
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OK Go contest winners will launch their cosmic creations on Blue Origin spaceship
Members of the OK Go performance-art band (at left) give the good word to one of the winning teams (shown on the screen at right) in the Art in Space contest. (OK Go via YouTube) Three students are getting ready for a space experiment that will use gravity and magnetism to simulate the origin of…
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Hey, kids: Put a rocket in space and win a million dollars in Base 11 Space Challenge
News Brief: Students from colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada are being recruited for the Base 11 Space Challenge, a $1 million competition to encourage the development of a liquid-fueled, single-stage rocket powerful enough to reach 100 kilometers (62 miles) in altitude. That height marks the internationally accepted boundary of space. Deadline for…
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Doll of the year: 2018’s top American Girl is an aspiring astronaut named Luciana Vega
A doll named Luciana Vega is unveiled as the American Girl of the Year for 2018 on ABC’s “Good Morning America” as Space Camp girls look on. (ABC / GMA) American Girl put a Space Age spin on the centuries-old tradition of dress-up dolls today by unveiling a spacesuit-clad character named Luciana Vega as its…
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Save up your pennies for next year’s science stamps, celebrating STEM and astronaut Sally Ride
Four of the postage stamps planned for 2018 focus on science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM. (USPS Illustration) If you’re the U.S. Postal Service, how do you follow up on Pluto, planets, “Star Trek” and a total solar eclipse? Here’s how: Next year’s batch of postage stamps will include a memorial to Sally Ride,…