For the last few months, students within the Clark County School District developed proposals for space-related projects to be submitted to the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program. At a May 4 program at the Desert Research Institute, students from Batterman, Vanderburg and Wright elementary schools received word they were finalists for the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education-sponsored program.
Juniors and seniors from four area high schools attended a Student Leadership Symposium April 22 at Nevada State College, 1125 Nevada State Drive. It’s a fair bet that none of them expected to hear what motivational speaker Roy Juarez Jr. had to say.
The games students at Martin Middle School play don’t involve rapid hand-eye coordination, smartphones or exploding zombies. The Chess Club at the school is only in its second year, but it is already making a name for itself in the state.
Crimebusters! took place at the Veterans Tribute Career Techincal Academy, 2531 Vegas Drive, on May 2 and showed kids and their parents how to not only extract DNA from a strawberry but how facial reconstruction is used to help identify victims from skeletal remains, how to dust for fingerprints, how to use a microscope and several other ways science helps investigators solve crimes.
An off-the-cuff remark made by Inventables CEO Zach Kaplan cost his company more than $10,000, and he couldn’t be happier about it.
