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Tech parents guide the next generation of space engineers
Palm Crest Elementary School sits four miles away from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where a team built and developed the Mars rover Curiosity, the largest machine sent to another planet. But engineers at the La Caņada Flintridge lab may have...Tags: Students, Education, Teaching and Learning, Science and Technology, Elementary Schools
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Ongoing art and history exhibits for May 2
HCC student art exhibition The exhibit features artwork including painting, drawing, mixed media sculpture, ceramic sculpture, pottery, digital photography and graphic design prints. Exhibit concludes Friday, May 3. Hagerstown Community College’s...
Tags: Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Museums, Battle of Antietam, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Fine Arts
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NASA awards $1.8 million to UCF professor for study of long-range human missions
WASHINGTON -- One of the major challenges of space travel -- especially to far-off destinations such as Mars -- is keeping human crews focused during dangerous voyages that could take months, even years. To begin working that problem, NASA recently... -
Merit badges? He's got 'em all
Last week, Harold Kast earned a Boy Scout merit badge in game design. To achieve this, the 17-year-old junior assistant Scoutmaster of Troop 509 played and studied games and designed his own math-based card game. In doing so, the La Caņada High School...
Tags: Boy Scouts of America, Social Organizations, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Youth Organizations
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Journey in grief leads to new protections from bullying
The mourners followed the coffin of 15-year-old Grace McComas out of the church and into the morning sunlight of a beautiful Easter season. Christine McComas carried her child's stuffed toy in the crook of her arm. Grief made her look almost wistful. As...
Tags: Ken Ulman, Crime, Law and Justice, Howard County, Colleges and Universities, Mount Airy
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California company snags last-minute tax break from Florida lawmakers
TALLAHASSEE — In an unusual, late-night meeting, Florida lawmakers negotiating a state budget unveiled — and quickly agreed to — a new tax break meant to help a California company that recently hired one of Tallahassee's most influential...
Tags: Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), Crime, Law and Justice, Colin Powell, Google Inc., U.S. Army
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Third-grader names asteroid that is focus of NASA mission
Asteroid (101955)1999 RQ36 doesn't really roll off the tongue, but asteroid Bennu? That's an asteroid that a person, a country and the world can get excited about. This week, NASA announced that 9-year-old Michael Toler Puzio of North Carolina had won...
Tags: Space Programs, Barack Obama, Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Charles F. Bolden, Jr.
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Airborne laboratory being used to measure California's snowpack
Teams will fan out across the Sierra Nevada on Thursday to perform their final snow survey of the season, a closely watched rite of spring that helps determine how much water will flow to farms and cities in coming months. But 18,000 feet above the...
Tags: Science and Technology, University of Utah, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Cross Country Skiing, Water Supply
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May night sky happenings
May is a great month to see a lovely collection of constellations with your own eyes and view objects studied by NASA spacecraft and telecopes. Use the moon to help locate the constellations this month. - On May 13 the crescent moon is between the...
Tags: Space Programs, Science and Technology
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Space telescope astrophysicist probes space, spreads the word
Jason Kalirai doesn't just reach for the stars. He pulls them close and studies them — and encourages others to do so, as well. For two years, Kalirai, an award-winning astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, worked...
Tags: Space Programs, Science and Technology, Science, Research, Applied Physics
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Weatherford gets tax break for California company that hired prominent lobbying firm
In an unusual, late-night meeting, Florida lawmakers negotiating a state budget unveiled – and quickly agreed to – a new tax break meant to help a California company that recently hired one of Tallahassee’s most influential lobbying...
Tags: Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), Colin Powell, Google Inc., U.S. Army, Lobbying
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