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Sep 05
A ticket to Mars!
Don’t miss out! By Sept 8, 2015: Send your name to Mars on NASA’s upcoming Mars mission, InSight. InSight will study the deep interior of Mars to understand how all of the rocky planets formed – including Earth! It will also measure “Marsquakes” and meteorite impacts. Click here to send your name to Mars InSight …
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Sep 03
Prepare for the Future: A Workshop for Parents and Teens
Teens (grades 8 to 12) Are you interested in exploring occupations and careers you may have never heard of? Join Dr. Cavanaugh and Trish Cheek for an evening scavenger hunt for the most interesting jobs of the 21st century. Discover STEM Careers you’ve never heard of and explore occupations you may want to pursue. 70% …
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Aug 22
Electrophoresis for Grades 3-5: Synthetic Biology for kids!
Synthetic Biology plays with the design and construction of new biological parts or systems and redesign existing natural systems (for example,a a biotech hacker space in Oakland, California, are trying to make cow’s milk cheese without the cow. Using mail-order DNA, they’re tricking yeast cells into producing a substance that’s molecularly identical to milk. And if successful, …
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Aug 09
Platypus LLC STEM Careers Tour – Flood Gates of Collaboration
Out of our sixteen tours, the tour of Platypus, LLC was my favorite. Platypus, LLC is a Pittsburgh based company that provides environmental monitoring solutions for water bodies using autonomous robotic boats. Pras Velagapudi, their Chief Technology Officer, was our guide. He started by explaining how Platypus used a combination of marine, electrical, and software engineering to …
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Jul 28
Making Meaningful Games: Firefighter Firefight
A programming and game design team of Jr. High Students at the Engineer Your Passion Workshop created a game to highlight the Cranberry Community Chest Volunteer Firefighter Initiative. The students were led by StormC, the Grow a Generation Research Fellow who specializing in developing Scratch Programming opportunities to make meaningful projects. Press the green flag and …
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Jul 23
Future Engineers: 3-D Space Container Challenge
Houston, we have a design! Congratulations to the Engineer Your Passion STEM Camp participants who successfully designed and submitted 3-D container designs to serve the needs of astronauts living at the International Space Station! Thank you to Dr. Joseph Ayoob for the ideas on the fruit fly olfactory experiment. The device allows for the observation …
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Jul 17
Thursday STEM Career Tour
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Jul 17
Wednesday STEM Career Tour
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