When I heard our Young Scientist Challenge lead judge, Jake Jacobs (aka Mr. Wizard IV), talk about “whelmers” in his webinar (archived here) my linguist heart went all a flutter. I just love a good play, twist or tweak on a word and that one does it nicely to describe his attention getting lead-ins to [...]
Although some of you may be thinking that this is the most wonderful time of the year because the school year is ending, for me it is also the time of student media festivals and teacher awards. Slick Rock had theirs, and you may have had yours at the school, district, or state level. On [...]
Another week, another GREAT Discovery Education Event! On Tuesday, May 20th, I had the pleasure of attending a private reception and screening for Discovery’s new show When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions’ which details 50 historic years in space.I was among the first to view archival NASA footage that has never been seen before [...]
Chris Ryan in our office brought this site to my attention. Thanks Chris. The internet is full of data. Maybe it’s in the form of a report, a spreadsheet, an online database, … this just keeps going. In-house, we use dabbledb to help capture, organize and report data. It rocks and if you’re looking for [...]
On Friday night, PA STAR, Meg Griffin, had the opportunity to join some DEN STARs, DEN staff, and Discovery Channel folks for a special event featuring Jeff Corwin. Here is Meg’s report from the Animal Planet Expo in PA. Hot town, summer in the city…. Friday night, I had the exciting opportunity to cool down at [...]
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