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Gravity Racing Challenge grows, encourages hands-on learning
The Akron Beacon JournalWhen the first Gravity Racing Challenge took place at Derby Downs in 2010, two teams participated. On Saturday, there were more than 90. And the growth of the event may provide a long-term boost to the FirstEnergy All-American Soap Box Derby. The...Tags: Vehicles, Science and Technology, Services and Shopping, Automotive Equipment, Technology
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Chicago Tribune All-State Academic Team
Scott Beck By John P. Huston,Tribune reporter Scott Beck's brain isn't the only instrument he uses to help him excel at math and science. Beck, a Highland Park High School senior, turns to the French horn to "kind of keep me balanced and keep me...
Tags: Bill Gates, Bank of Montreal, Science and Technology, University of Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Lehigh Valley Arts News: WDIY director to retire, State Theatre president honored
WDIY executive director to retire WDIY Executive Director Bill Dautremont-Smith has announced his retirement at the end of summer. Dautremont-Smith has been involved in the Lehigh Valley community public radio station since February 2003, and has been...Tags: Science and Technology, Allentown, Fashion Trends, Allentown Art Museum, Cedar Crest College
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Local researchers debate creationism, evolution
Daily American Staff WriterIt isn't the typical water cooler chat: discussion of evolution, Christian creationism and other existential quandaries. Local chaplain Dane Cramer and Somerset Area High School chemistry teacher Scott Dunlap sat down this week to hash out the...Tags: Science and Technology, Religion and Belief, The Pennsylvania State University, Chemistry
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Record number of CU-Boulder students receive Fulbright awards
Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.Twelve University of Colorado students will be dispatched throughout the world with prestigious Fulbright awards next school year, with study topics ranging from robotic colonoscopy equipment to determining the accuracy of wind measurements near turbines....Tags: Science and Technology, Tourism and Leisure, Environmental Issues, Cultural Development, Trips and Vacations
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Families talk about food, fish, at VIMS Marine Science Day
GLOUCESTER—Lunch for one fish might not be the same for the next fish. That's one thing Rylen Barnett, 13, of Gloucester, said he learned at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science's Marine Science Day on Saturday. The annual open house in...
Tags: Science and Technology, Lifestyle and Leisure, Hatteras, Foods and Beverages, Gloucester (Gloucester, Virginia)
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Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore., Chris Conrad column
Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore."Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride: Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defense each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over,...Tags: Science and Technology, Music, Google Inc., Space Programs, Entertainment
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PolitiFact: Was Obama's statement about Austin's tech economy on the mark?
Austin American-StatesmanAustin rocks, President Barack Obama indicated during his May 9 swing through the area, thanks in great part to its technology-related businesses. After listing plans by Apple, Visa and General Motors to add jobs in Austin, Obama told students and...Tags: Science and Technology, IBM, White House, General Motors Corp., Career and Workplace
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Letters to the editor: compassionate cruise line, student debt, and Kiera Wilmot
At a time when so many cruise lines are being villified — some deservedly — I would like to voice my experience with the Royal Caribbean International Cruise Lines. On April 28, on the first day of our planned cruise on the Caribbean, my...Tags: Science and Technology, Memorial Day, Medical Procedures and Tests, Royal Caribbean International, Hospitals and Clinics
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Trout in the Classroom program reels in students
The Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewThis past week, on a day marked by occasional spitting rain and overcast skies, nearly four dozen Butler Junior High School students traveled to Thorn Creek in Butler County. Unlike anglers who go to the water looking for trout, they were taking their...Tags: Science and Technology, Butler County, Pittsburgh, Schools, Hopewell (Hopewell, Virginia)
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Charity's investment a prescription for profits for drug maker
Milwaukee Journal SentinelWhat happens when a disease-fighting charity dives into venture capitalism? In the first case of its kind, the results include one of the planet's most expensive pills, huge sales projections for a drug company and windfalls for executives who sold...Tags: Science and Technology, Stanford University, Health Organizations, Colleges and Universities, Johns Hopkins University
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'It's never too late to pursue your dreams'
The Eagle-Tribune, North Andover, Mass.It took Matthew Huggins 10 years to earn a degree from Northern Essex Community College. There was no lack of effort on his part, but when you can't speak and are unable to write or type with your hands, things take time. "It was one click of the chin...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Ceremonies, Science and Technology, Crime, Law and Justice, Health and Safety at School
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