Tag: Stem
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Coors Field gets scientific during STEM Day
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save High-flying action dropped the jaws of attendees at Coors Field on Thursday — and no, it wasn’t a part of the Rockies’ meandering baseball season. The Colorado Rockies and Steve Spangler — a Colorado television personality and author deemed “America’s Science Teacher” by Ellen Degeneres — held their…
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Kendrick Castillo, student who died rushing STEM School active shooter, to be honored with memorial
Future generations will be reminded of the bravery and courage of Kendrick Castillo, a STEM School Highlands Ranch student who died while rushing an active shooter on campus in 2019, with a newly-announced memorial at Civic Green Park in Douglas County. Castillo’s family and Highlands Ranch officials marked the occasion in a ceremony at the…
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Lone Tree student and first-ever Time Magazine ‘Kid of the Year’ joins battle against opioid addiction
Two years ago, a teenage scholar, scientist and inventor from Lone Tree created an anti-cyberbullying app that helped lead to her being named Time Magazine’s first-ever Kid of the Year for 2020. Now, having just completed her junior year in high school, Gitanjali Rao is using her science and technology skills to combat the opioid…
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Labor supply is the ‘biggest challenge’ facing the space industry
Space company executives, educators and industry leaders convened at the Space Symposium Thursday to discuss what Brent Sherwood, senior vice president of Blue Origin, said is the “biggest challenge” facing the space industry: lack of workers. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) jobs are projected…
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Scholarship nominations open for Colorado’s future STEM leaders
Colorado’s annual Future Leaders program is back this year, offering high school students excelling in STEM the opportunity to earn $1,000 scholarships. Nominations for scholarship recipients opened Thursday. Teachers, parents, mentors and others are encouraged to nominate students who they believe will be Colorado’s future leaders in science, technology, engineering and/or mathematics. Last year, eight…
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Space Symposium: Boecore brings ‘innovation’ to Colorado’s aerospace and defense ecosystem
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Sights and sounds from the 36th Space Symposium, the world’s largest space show, held at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. (Video by Skyler Ballard) { “@context”: “https://schema.org”, “@type”: “VideoObject”, “name”: “SCENES FROM | 36th Space Symposium”, “description”: “Sights and sounds from the 36th Space Symposium,…
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Denver Museum of Nature & Science to host annual Girls and Science event virtually
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