Oakland trio puts TECH in MIT (Oakland Tribune) OAKLAND ? This fall, three girls on the same high school soccer team head to the most prestigious engineering institution in the country. With a roster of 26 players, that must be a fluke, right?...more...Tech Camp offers hands-on approach (Port Clinton News Herald) FREMONT -- Thirteen-year-old Melissa Ballasch watched the laser engraver Tuesday as her checker design became a reality....more... Educators: 3D Printing the Missing Link to Engage, Advance Tomorrow's Engineers (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) High schools, colleges and universities are increasingly adopting 3D printing to put physical objects into the hands of the students who conceived them, bringing the design education process to its logical conclusion....more... Middle schools prepare for Civil Air Patrol (The Moultrie Observer) MOULTRIE ? Allowing students the chance this fall to ascend to new heights, figuratively and literally, the Colquitt County Board of Education recently approved the establishment of a U.S. Air Force Civil Air Patrol at both middle schools....more... Museum of Science Launches First School Textbook Publishing Partnership with Key Curriculum Press (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) BOSTON & EMERYVILLE, Calif.----The Museum of Science, Boston, and Key Curriculum Press, Emeryville, Calif., announced plans today to publish an engaging new high school science and engineering curriculum, Engineering the Future: Science, Technology, and the Design Process ....more... Wednesday | 6 June, 2007 (ARNnet) Australia is in grave danger of falling off the world stage if it didn't commit to growing its ICT industry and addressing the worsening skills crisis, NICTA CTO, Dr Chris Nicol, warned today....more... It truly has been community wide collaboration that has helped our City garner so much recognition this last year. And ... (KKTV 11 Colorado Springs) In our most recent citizen survey, released earlier this year, our citizens gave our police and fire departments an 86% and 93% good or better performance rating. We can not have a great quality of life without a safe city and our citizens recognize it....more... Tuning into a career (The Columbian) Heather Aue admits it: She once really, really wanted to be a crime scene investigator. And yes, it was because of the television show "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."...more... Nigeria: Fulfilling a Duty to Give Back (AllAfrica.com) In his inaugural speech last week, President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua spoke eloquently about imbibing a new culture of virtues in the national life....more... |