Tag Archives: middle school science
This year I had the pleasure of judging the middle school Physics and Astronomy entries for Austin Energy’s Regional Science Festival, sponsored by Compass Learning. As a former middle school science teacher, I must admit I showed up to the festival with some pretty high standards and expectations. To my delight, the student participants brought [...]
Editor’s note: Formula 1 is coming to Austin, Texas in a few days, and since the Compass Learning headquarters is based in downtown Austin, we want to welcome race fans to our great city! We’ll be posting a series of blogs that focus on what you can learn from racing for the next couple weeks. [...]
Countless scientists and engineers made the arrival of NASA’s new “Curiosity” rover on Mars possible, both by laying the groundwork in previous missions and by building, launching, landing the rover for this latest mission. The name “Curiosity” is an appropriate one, because at some point everyone who worked on this mission must have had their [...]
Earth Day 2012: Mobilize the EarthTM, which marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement, is April 22, 2012. The first event in 1970 was an outcry against the pollution of the environment. It led to the creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Air, Clean Water, [...]
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