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Science on the South Lawn
Jack Andraka, Jessika Baral and Sara Volz (left to right) were three of the 14 alumni from SSP science competitions invited to attend the third White House Science Fair on April 22. Credit: SSP One hundred U.S. students got to discuss science and engineering with President Barack Obama this week. The White House invited these middle-school and high-school students to honor their individual or team research — and to showcase the developments by…
How teachers cultivate young scientists
Martin Shapiro, an instructor at the 2012 SSP Fellows Institute, demonstrates the “electric pickle” experiment, a fun way to introduce students to research. Credit: SSP High school biology teacher Randa Flinn sent four students to the Florida state science fair this year, the most representatives of any public school in her district. One of those students, a junior, returned home with a blue ribbon for her investigation of the vulnerability of…
The 2012 Nobel Prizes
David Wineland, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo., adjusts a laser that’s going to be used to study charged atoms, or ions. Wineland was named a winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics. Credit: Geoffrey Wheeler Every fall, a few scientists receive big recognition when they’re named winners of the Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry or medicine. On October 8, John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka were…
Cool Jobs: Math as entertainment
When a band of zoo buddies tears through a Monte Carlo casino, the marble columns don’t have a chance. Nafees Bin Zafar used mathematics to power the visual effects behind this madcap scene in Madagascar 3. Credit: “Madagascar 3” © 2012 DreamWorks Animation LLC, used with permission of DreamWorks Animation LLC This is one in a series on careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics made possible by support from the Northrop Grumma…
Intel STS 2012 highlights
More information about the Intel Science Talent Search competition can be found on the Society for Science and Public’s website. The Intel® Science Talent Search® (Intel STS) is the nation’s most prestigious science research competition for high school seniors. Since 1942, first in partnership with Westinghouse and beginning in 1998 with Intel, SSP has provided a national stage for the country’s best and brightest young scientists…
Pathways to research: Problem-solving
Toll stands next to the electric bicycle, called a Pulse PEVO, that he helped to design along with a few friends from college. Recently, the team loaned several of their bikes to a group of Pittsburgh citizens, who seemed to enjoy the ride. The bike designers hope to get more people in Pittsburgh out of their cars and onto bikes. Credit: Ohad Cadji Pittsburgh’s many hills aren’t kind to bikers. Anyone hoping to pedal to work there has to conten…
Intel ISEF
Eesha Khare (left), Ionut Budisteanu (center) and Henry Wanjune Lin (right) claimed the top three prizes at this year’s Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix, Arizona. Budisteanu’s work toward developing a self-driving car earned the 19-year-old Romanian inventor the $75,000 top prize. Credit: Intel/Chris Ayers The Intel® International Science and Engineering Fair® (Intel ISEF) is the world’s largest high school science co…
Broadcom MASTERS
The Broadcom MASTERS ® is a competition for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students in the United States. 2012 Broadcom MASTERS top winners announced! Broadcom Foundation and Society for Science & the Public (also the nonprofit publisher of Science News for Kids) announce the top winners of the 2012 Broadcom MASTERS. Top winners were selected from 30 finalists who came to Washington, DC during Broadcom MASTERS week (September 28 – October 3, 20…
Climate’s troublesome kids
During a climate event known as El Niño (shown on the left), the surface of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean warms along the equator (red). During a La Niña event (on the right), the same region cools (blue). Credit: NOAA Rain starting falling on Chile in late May, 2002 — and just wouldn’t stop. Within days, the skies unleashed the heaviest rainfall this country had seen in more than a century. Towns flooded. Tens of thousands of people fl…
Pathways to research: Connecting with scientists
That’s no hairnet: Emily Prentiss and brain scientist John Butler practice attaching special probes to the head of a fellow researcher at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. These probes record the brain’s electric pulses and helped Prentiss study how the organ reacts to sudden changes in the environment. The young student was able to complete the project with Butler’s guidance. Credit: Courtesy of the Albert Einstein Coll…
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