10:45 Saturday, July 18, listen to the Saturday Light Brigade Recording below of the Interview of Erin Cheek and I about the great Research Fellows Programs at Baden Academy and the Baden Academy Naturalist Club! Listen WRCT 88.3 FM Pittsburgh iQ kids Radio Internet Radio Visit Erin’s website at Baden Academy Naturalists
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Jul 04
Still Home of the Free – Job Growth and Immigrant Start-ups
70% of new job growth in the United States, according to the Kauffman Report, is the result of start-ups. Many of these new start-ups are created by people who immigrate to be part of a nation that offers opportunity for them to found and grow a company. Bloomberg reported “new entrepreneurs are now back on the …
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Jul 01
Gavin featured in Birdcalls!
Congratulations to Gavin for a wonderful write up in the National Aviary newsletter Birdcalls. Find out more about Gavin’s work to help the conservation efforts of penguins and his two wonderful children’s books Saving a Galapagos Penguin Family and The Little Blue Penguins of North Sidney Harbour. Text of the article: For as long as he can remember, …
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Jul 01
STEM Camp Update
STEM Career Tours (Grades 9-12) July 6-10 There are still a few seats open on next week’s STEM Career Tours. Registration has been opened for individual days until the bus is full. See the attached image of the schedule which includes Valspar, Cybergenetics, Astrobotic, 4Moms, First Energy, First Insight, Platypus, Percsolutions, Senservere, Bayer, Schroeder Industries, …
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Jun 27
Why no girls?
The seats for the STEM Career Tours are filling up and so far, there are NO girls signed up to go! Joining forces the missions of organizations such as the Female Alliance for STEM Excellence and the Society for Women Engineers, we are offering a two 50% scholarship for the STEM Careers Tour. Contact Dr. Ellen …
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Jun 24
You Can’t Take the Sky from Me
Welcome to new guest blogger Ian Cavanaugh! Traveling with my parents is quite the adventure. We drove through Colorado Springs (visiting the Air Force Academy) and decided to follow the ‘unique’ recommendations on the web. We found The Airplane Restaurant about five minutes from our hotel to one of the highest reviewed restaurants in the …
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Jun 18
Encountering a 305,000 pound robot in Vegas!
“Really, that’s what you noticed?!” (comment of my husband after the show) We happened into tickets to the phenomenal Cirque de Soleil show KÀ in Vegas. The music, the story, the actors, the costumes were all extraordinary, but what caught my attention was the robot! Performers fought, danced, leaped, climbed and fell from what appears …
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Jun 13
STEM Careers Tour
DISCOVER YOUR FUTURE STEM CAREERS TOUR GRADES 9-12 * JULY 6-10 * 8:30 – 4:30 Travel by bus to 10 companies and 5 college campuses in and around Pittsburgh for tours, discussions, activities, and explorations. $395 Who’s on the schedule? Cybergenetics is the world leader in computer automated STR …
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