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Weekly STEM Discussion – June 19, 2016 TOPICS: SCIENCE – Juno closing in on Jupiter https://www.sciencenews.org/article/juno-closing-jupiter TECHNOLOGY – 360 video in the news https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/lessons-from-ap-s-experiments-with-360-degree-video-and-virtual-reality/s2/a646464/ ENGINEERING – LIGO detects 2nd gravitational wave https://www.sciencenews.org/article/second-gravitational-wave-signal-detected MATH – Cloaking. Not just science fiction. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160519120708.htm  

Weekly STEM Discussion – June 2, 2016 TOPICS: SCIENCE – Close-up view of Pluto’s surface. http://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-horizons-best-close-up-of-plutos-surface TECHNOLOGY – Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends Report http://www.kpcb.com/internet-trends ENGINEERING – New wheelchair doubles lets paraplegics stand and wheel. https://youtu.be/8yANKUHw4OU MATH – Decibels. What are they? http://www.animations.physics.unsw.edu.au/jw/dB.htm Thanks for watching! Please subscribe to our channel. For more places to...

Weekly STEM Discussion – May 28, 2016 TOPICS: SCIENCE – Chimera Research http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/05/18/478212837/in-search-for-cures-scientists-create-embryos-that-are-both-animal-and-human TECHNOLOGY – Microsoft and Facebook Go Under the Water http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/microsoft-facebook-are-building-undersea-internet-cable-n581166 ENGINEERING – Hyperloop http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/26/11781534/i-hate-flying-plane-makers-learn-from-hyperloop MATH – Math Bee Winner http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/edward-wan-named-2016-raytheon-mathcounts-national-champion-300265141.html

TOPICS: SCIENCE – Intel ISEF 2016 Recap https://student.societyforscience.org/intel-isef TECHNOLOGY – 15 year anniversary for the Apple Store http://www.macrumors.com/2016/05/19/apple-retail-stores-15th-anniversary/ youtube.com/watch?v=xLTNfIaL5YI ENGINEERING – Oracle vs. Google “Declaring Code is not Code” says CEO Larry Page http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/05/ceo-larry-page-defends-google-on-the-stand-declaring-code-is-not-code/ MATH – Left or Right Handed? https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160505104844.htm

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TOPICS: SCIENCE – “Biggest Loser reveals science of rubber-band weight loss” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/hea… TECHNOLOGY – Windows 10. Do you even upgrade, bro? http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/6/1160… Funny pop up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMPeT… ENGINEERING – Real life Iron Man suit? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU95h… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25c1h… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioo9p… MATH – “Trekonomics” by Manu Saadia https://www.inkshares.com/books/treko…

Weekly STEM Discussion – April 29, 2016 TOPICS: SCIENCE – SpaceX and Mars (www.spacex.com) TECHNOLOGY – Hacked Power Glove (https://2016.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/space-station/rock-it-space-fashion-and-design/projects/fractalnet-featuring-the-dataglove) ENGINEERING – Clean energy – as inspired by Solar Impulse (http://www.solarimpulse.com/adventure) MATH – Using binary for coding Follow us at: http://ExpeditionSTEM.com https://www.Facebook.com/ExpeditionSTEM https://twitter.com/ExpeditionSTEM

TOPICS: SCIENCE – International Space Apps Challenge (https://2016.spaceappschallenge.org/locations/greensboro-nc-usa) TECHNOLOGY – Facebook’s F8 Conference (http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/hubble-sees-a-star-inflating-a-giant-bubble) (http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2016/13/image/) ENGINEERING – Solar Impulse plane (http://www.solarimpulse.com/adventure) MATH – Remembering Wilhelm Schickard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Schickard) Follow us at: http://ExpeditionSTEM.com https://www.Facebook.com/ExpeditionSTEM https://twitter.com/ExpeditionSTEM

TOPICS: SCIENCE – International Space Apps Challenge (https://2016.spaceappschallenge.org/l…) TECHNOLOGY – Facebook’s F8 Conference (http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/13/face…) ENGINEERING – $100 Million Project to Search for Aliens in Deep Space (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/sci…) MATH – Opting Out of State Tests (http://www.lohud.com/story/news/educa…) Follow us at: http://ExpeditionSTEM.com https://www.Facebook.com/ExpeditionSTEM https://twitter.com/ExpeditionSTEM

Weekly STEM Discussion – April 8, 2016 * Andrew apologizes for his lagging video/audio 🙂 * TOPICS: SCIENCE – International Space Apps Challenge (https://2016.spaceappschallenge.org/about) TECHNOLOGY – Oculus VR ENGINEERING – DARPA’s new Unmanned Vessel (http://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2016-04-07) MATH – Predicting Baseball outcomes (http://phys.org/news/2016-04-mathematical-sciences-professor-winners-major.html)