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Space Math

Owen Rossi-Keen

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Houston Solution: Using Space to teach Math

Melanie Houston

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Space, Incredulity, and 2 Kids’ Passion

Space is now a 360 billion dollar industry worldwide.  Three-quarters of that 360 billion is spent by private industry.  And that industry, particularly in America, has a hiring problem. Students that are ‘interested’ in the space industry are ready to pursue limited and coveted positions at NASA, but unaware of a massive commercial industry that …

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“I study Saturn’s Moon Titan with a three billion dollar spacecraft”

Gabrielle Hirsch and Christian Conway, two Seton LaSalle students working with the Rebel Outposts research fellowship, had an opportunity to interview Dr. Chuck Wood, Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute and the Executive Director of the Center for Educational Technologies at Wheeling University.  Take a listen to some fascinating stories from one of the …

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Greenest Space in the City

On Friday, November 17th Mrs. Steiniger’s Biology class from Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic High School toured the Center For Sustainable Landscapes at Phipps Conservatory, as part of Sustainability Stem Career Tour. The Center For Sustainable Landscapes is one of the greenest buildings in the world, meeting the requirements of the Living Building Challenge the strictest classification …

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When we dream of space, we dream of what we might become

I was honored to be asked to serve again as a judge for the Pittsburgh regional space apps challenge.  Our group was just one of 166 cities around the world gathering teams for the largest hackathon in the world.  This was Pittsburgh’s third year, NASA’s 15th year. The event was held at the Academy, a new …

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Another Step in the New Space Race

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj8exkbQtto The Dragon cargo spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station, carried into space with the Falcon 9 rocket that then proceded to successfully land upon a robotic drone ship. This is such an incredible feat of engineering prowess! Do you want your child to learn more about the jobs and opportunities …

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Space: A Reemerging Frontier

Did you see the Falcon 9 launch, what one person described as accurately throwing a pencil over the Empire State Building and having it land on dime on the other side. Have you been following the news United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing that launched ten times in the last …

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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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International Space Apps Challenge

Congratulations to the two Pittsburgh competitors on their way to the international challenge round! Teams gathered Friday two begin a two day hack-a-thon marathon to build a space app. Degrees of Data included a very hardworking freshman from Pitt and his team. NamingNature brought their tree naming app to address deforestation. Check out what these …

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