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Sharing a musical experience at school
Kids and families learned all about music at a recent event in Boca Raton. The Boca Raton Symphonia's free Meet the Orchestra program at Saint Andrew's School offered hands-on experimentation with musical instruments, tips from area experts and...Tags: Teaching and Learning, here! (tv network), New York City, Politics, Arts and Culture
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Federal innovation a matter of perspective
The federal government has an innovation problem — or does it? The answer depends on whom you ask. Federal employees surveyed over the past three years have had a declining view of government innovation. But that doesn't mean Uncle Sam doesn't...Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, National Security, Politics, U.S. Department of State
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NASA accomplishes smartphones' mission
Smartphone cameras are fine for snapping photos of your BFF, but NASA has officially taken that technology to new heights. The space agency has successfully tested smartphones as low-cost satellites, thanks to the recent launch of the Antares rocket from...Tags: Antarctica, Wallops Island (Accomack, Virginia), Entertainment, Satellite Technology, Science and Technology
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Former NASA Langley scientist from China pleads guilty to misdemeanor
NEWPORT NEWS — A Chinese national and former NASA Langley Research Center contractor pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday — but not to spying, espionage or lying to federal investigators. Instead, Bo Jiang pleaded guilty to a...Tags: Trials, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Chesapeake City, China, Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia)
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Former Petoskey resident receives national Eagle Scout award
GRAND RAPIDS -- Former Petoskey resident Patrick Parker was recently honored with the National Eagle Scout Association's National Outstanding Eagle Scout Award, the highest Eagle Scout recognition a council can bestow. The award recognizes Eagle Scouts...
Tags: Youth Organizations, Gerald Ford, Boy Scouts of America, Human Interest, Social Organizations
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Rush fan Marian Clayton of Newport News wins free tickets to Sunday's show
"I'm literally shaking right now," said Marian Clayton, a Newport News resident who works at NASA. "I'm such a big fan. You have no idea." That was Clayton's response when she learned that she'd won the Daily Press Rush trivia contest. Clayton was among...
Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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A poem for a planet: Send your haiku to Mars
The MAVEN spacecraft is leaving for Mars in November. Along with scientific gear and advanced communication technologies, it will be bringing along some poetry. It could be yours. NASA launched -- or, rather, opened -- the poetry contest on Wednesday....
Tags: NPR, Google+, Poetry, NASA Mars Exploration Program
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We asked you: Was UCF right to put instructor on leave for 'killing spree' comment?
We asked you: Was UCF right to put instructor on leave for 'killing spree' comment? YES 13% NO 87% Join the real world Insinuation and innuendo do not make [the comment] real. The students who got offended need to get off Facebook, chat rooms or...
Tags: Teachers, Health and Safety at School, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, Students
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Official: Local Motors picks first-ever winner of motorcycle design challenge [w/video]
Autoblog.comFiled under: Concept Cars, Etc., Videos, Motorcycle, Design/Style Local Motors, the company behind the Rally Fighter, briefly took its four wheels off the dirt and put two on the road for a crowd-sourced motorcycle project. Working with fellow Arizona... -
USDA introduces VegScape program
Area agriculturalists have a new online tool this growing season. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service has introduced VegScape-Vegetation Condition Explorer, a satellite-based service that provides current...Tags: U.S. Department of Agriculture
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NASA wants poets to send haikus on Mars MAVEN mission
NASA wants to send haikus to Mars, and you — yes, you! — might be just the poet for the job. The space agency plans to launch a spacecraft to study the upper layers of the Red Planet’s atmosphere in November. But before the Mars...
Tags: Media Industry, NASA Voyager Program, NASA Mars Exploration Program, Science and Technology, Space Programs
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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: Elementary Schools, Teaching and Learning, Science, Students, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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