Related News ItemsGawad awardees namedWed, 28 Jul 2010 01:36:59 -0700
The Department of Science and Technology (DoST) conferred the 2010 Gawad LIDER Award for Exemplary Leadership on Dr. Simon L. Chua, President of the Mathematics Trainers Guild of the Philippines (MTG), for Individual Category; University of the Philippines – National Engineering Center (UP-NEC), for Institution Category. It bestowed, on the other hand, the 2010 Gawad LIDER Innovation Award on Dr ...
Read More... Sci-Port hosts luncheon for STEM educatorsWed, 28 Jul 2010 12:20:57 -0700
Sci-Port: Louisiana’s Science Center hosted a luncheon today for Guillermo Ferreyra, Ph.D., Jean May-Brett and 15 groups involved in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education from around the region.
Read More... District 11 students beat state scores on science testWed, 28 Jul 2010 15:14:42 -0700
Anoka-Hennepin School Districts Science MCA-II scores have been released and turns out, District 11 students outscored the state once again.
Read More... 2010 Reith Lecture Series: Scientific HorizonsThu, 29 Jul 2010 00:56:56 -0700
Part One: Scientific Citizens. In the first of this year's Reith Lectures, Lord Martin Rees explores the challenges facing science in the 21st century. We are increasingly turning to government and the media to explain the risks we face. But in the wake of public confusion over issues like climate change, the swine 'flu vaccine and, more recently, Iceland's volcanic ash cloud, Martin Rees calls ...
Read More... Quantum fractals at the border of magnetismWed, 28 Jul 2010 14:01:59 -0700
( Rice University ) Physicists from Rice University, the Max Planck Institute and the Vienna University of Technology are reporting new results from experiments on the perplexing class of materials that includes high-temperature superconductors. In this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, the team reports the unexpected discovery of a simple fractal form of electronic ...
Read More... The Story of the O'Reilly School of Technology - Part 3Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:56:09 -0700
In this third installment of my series of blog posts, I'd like to tell the story of the O'Reilly School of Technology and the new Make: Mathematics project. I'll also use this time and space to explain our overall mission and plans for OST in the future.
Read More... Project captures kids' imaginationThu, 29 Jul 2010 00:21:48 -0700
When the school day ends, most students are usually racing for the door, but eighth-graders at O.W. Holmes Elementary-Middle School in Detroit had to be practically forced out this summer. That's because they were so enthralled by their mathematical masterpiece.
Read More... North School NewsThu, 29 Jul 2010 02:58:55 -0700
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