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Posted by Anthony Tran
The team had a productive conversation today to prepare us for the next steps plan of the competition. We met with a Commercial Developer of Switch Lighting, Gary Rosenfield to discussed about our project. While we listened to his presentation on his company latest light bulb technology, we were jus...
Posted by Anthony Tran
Bright Ideas began at the Sustainability Workshop, an honors program for Philadelphia high school students located at The Navy Yard in Philadelphia, where we are spending our senior year focusing on issues of sustainability. As the year progressed, I found myself more engaged in solving 21st century...
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Online voting opens for the People’s Choice Award in global high school competition It is the power of the people that will select the 2012 winner of the People’s Choice Award which is bestowed on the student team with the most innovative new product in the Conrad Founda...
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Conrad Foundation expands team to increase global reach of STEM programs Nancy Conrad, founder and chairman of the Conrad Foundation, today announced two new positions have been created to increase the Foundation’s ability to fundamentally shift the way science, technology, engineerin...
Posted by Community News and Resources
Strong scientific evidence exists that eating blueberries, blackberries, strawberries and other berry fruits has beneficial effects on the brain and may help prevent age-related memory loss and other changes, scientists report. Their new article on the value of eating berry fruits appears in ACS'&nb...
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Twitter is a big part of education and technology. But what happens when it needs to be included in an academic paper? Until now, you had to do your best to guess the proper citation for tweets in academic papers. That all just changed. Read more here: http://edudemic.com/2012/03/how-to-cit...
Posted by Josh DiGiacomo
You may know a thing or two about our product idea (or maybe you don't...) but I realized that there isn't a whole lot you know about the team behind it. In this blog, I'll be giving a little bit of the inside scoop on each of the members of the Maverick Robots. Josh (that's me!) - Josh is ...
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Exercise guidelines from the American Heart Association and other groups recommend that, for health purposes, people accumulate 10,000 steps or more a day – the equivalent of walking five miles. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/why-its-so-important-to-keep-moving/?ref=health
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Whether you’re a teacher preparing for tomorrow’s lecture, a professional tutor working with one or two students, or you just want to help your cousin in Alabama with some trig homework, these free tools will help you sans the confines of the classroom. http://edudemic.com/2012/01/o...
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Researchers have created a fabric — comprised of tiny carbon nanotubes — that can convert body heat into an electric charge. http://mashable.com/2012/02/24/power-felt/
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