Feb
21
Don’t assume that a student needs to wait until college to take an engineering class. A variety of Project Lead The Way classes are being offered at a number of high schools in the corridor, giving teens an early taste of the engineering field. Jefferson High School in Cedar Rapids was an early adopter of …
Feb
08
Editor’s note: First of a three-part look at the Vallejo school district high school academy initiative. Monday: An online multimedia presentation at timesheraldonline.com. Tuesday: A look at how some academy students are thriving. It’s like a family. Or at least, that’s how Vallejo students often describe their experiences in the Vallejo City Unified School District’s …
Jan
28
GLASTONBURY, Conn., Jan. 26, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ – Twenty seven teams of high school students from across the United States competed in the Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge which took place at MIT in Cambridge, MA and aboard the International Space Station (ISS) this week. “Team Rocket” from River Hill High School, Maryland, “Storming Robots” from Storming …
Jan
20
Print this story Email this story February 15, 2010 — Last summer, Guoqing Zhang, a chemistry doctoral student at the University of Virginia, was experimenting with a simple sunscreen compound when he made a startling discovery. As he crushed some crystals under an ultraviolet lamp, the green-blue-emitting material suddenly glowed yellow. His curiosity led him …
Jan
19
RMF Continues Workforce Expansion, Adds Stephen Devon and Ronald Maylor BALTIMORE, Jan. 17, 2012 — (PRNewswire) — RMF Engineering announced today the appointment of Stephen Devon, P.E., LEED A.P., CxA as principal and Ronald E. Maylor, P.E., LEED A.P. as project manager. Both Devon and Maylor, formerly with Schlenger/Pitz Associates, are electrical engineering experts with …