Sexist Comments Spark Outrage at Major Astronomy Festival
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These Engineering Ed Projects are Our Kind of Hacks
Highly polished all-in-one gear for teaching STEM is one way to approach the problem. But for some, they can be intimidating and the up-front expenditure can be a barrier to just trying something before you’re certain you want to commit. [Miranda] is taking a different approach with the aim of making engineering education possible with junk you have around the house. The point is to play around with engineering concepts with having to worry about doing it exactly right, or with exactly the right materials. You know… hacking!
On display at her Maker Faire Bay Area booth were numerous builds …read more
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These Engineering Ed Projects are Our Kind of Hacks
Highly polished all-in-one gear for teaching STEM is one way to approach the problem. But for some, they can be intimidating and the up-front expenditure can be a barrier to just trying something before you’re certain you want to commit. [Miranda] is taking a different approach with the aim of making engineering education possible with junk you have around the house. The point is to play around with engineering concepts with having to worry about doing it exactly right, or with exactly the right materials. You know… hacking!
On display at her Maker Faire Bay Area booth were numerous builds …read more
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Raspberry Pi Makes Learning Technology Sweet
Kids today don’t even remember life without the internet. Raspberry Pi encourages them to dig deeper into the technologies that surround them.
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Christopher Emdin Is Teaching Public School Kids Science Through Hip-Hop
“The liquid soluble that made up the chemistry. A gaseous element, that burned down your ministry.”—GZA on ‘Liquid Swords.’ Continue reading Christopher Emdin Is Teaching Public School Kids Science Through Hip-Hop
DOJ, FBI officials say there’s been a surge in teenage hackers
A proliferation of cheap, easy-to-use hacking tools on the dark web is causing an increasing number of U.S. teenagers to commit computer crimes, according to FBI and Justice Department officials. Government lawyers are seeing such a noticeable spike in adolescent cases that reminds some of the late 1990s, when the term “script kiddies” was first coined. “When I first joined the computer crime prosecution business, you would have these grey haired lawyers who would talk about the 80s and 90s, when they were prosecuting like 13- and 16-year-olds but that [had] really dropped off,” said Josh Goldfoot, deputy chief of the DOJ’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. “The 16-year-olds are coming back as a threat because it’s so easy now on the other side to acquire this type of stuff.” Adolescent hackers are once again becoming common, Goldfoot expounded, because of greater accessibility to exploit kits online and more […]
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Physicist Mary Gaillard Has Spent Over Three Decades Fighting For Women in Science
She was Berkeley’s first tenured female physics professor, and she’s still fighting for equality. Continue reading Physicist Mary Gaillard Has Spent Over Three Decades Fighting For Women in Science
LEGO Liquid Handler and Big Biology
A career as a lab biologist can take many forms, but the general public seems to see it as a lone, lab-coated researcher sitting at a bench, setting up a series of in vitro experiments by hand in small tubes or streaking out a little yeast on an agar plate. That’s not inaccurate at all – all of us lab rats have done time with a manual pipettor while trying to keep track of which tube in the ice bucket gets which solution. It’s tedious stuff.
But because biology experiments generally scale well, and because more data often leads to …read more
Lean Thinking Helps STEM Kids Build a Tiny Windfarm
When we see a new build by [Gord] from Gord’s Garage, we never know what to expect. He seems to be pretty skilled at whatever he puts his hand to, with a great design sense and impeccable craftsmanship. You might expect him to tone it down a little for a STEM-outreach wind turbine project then, but when you get a chance to impress 28 fifth and sixth graders, you might as well go for it.
Starting with an idea from his daughter’s teacher for wind turbines each kid could make, [Gord] applied a little lean methodology so the kids would …read more
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Mintomat: An Overcomplicated Gumball Machine
How do you get teenagers interested in science, technology, and engineering? [Erich]’s team at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences makes them operate three robots to get a gumball. The entire demonstration was whipped together in a few days, and has been field-repaired at least once; a green-wire fix was a little heavy on the solder and would short out to a neighboring trace when mechanical force was applied.
There are some interesting details of the build, including the choice to use an nRF24 2.4 GHz radio for communicating between the main board and the roving robot component, and some …read more
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