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Jeffrey (Jaewoo) Heo is currently (2016) a junior attending school at Seoul International School, South Korea. He moved from Korea to Singapore, where he lived for a year and attended an international school for the first time in 2nd grade. While...

Uma Sethuraman is currently (2016) an 11th grade student at William P. Clements High School. In her 2016 Science Fair Project, Uma developed a new, innovative approach to the problem of school scheduling by creating a genetic algorithm to optimize school...

Temitope Oye won an award for the NCWIT Aspirations in Computing in 2016. Temi has been interested in science, technology, and space since elementary school. She started looking further into her interest in computer science in 6th grade when she...

We try to keep up with our previous years’ award winners, and we feature information here about what they’re doing now. We hope this will inspire more students in younger grades to continue to explore and create in STEM subjects....

Energy Day was featured in a US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) article. HOUSTON ENERGY DAY FESTIVAL A BIG HIT WITH YOUNG SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS By Bill Lee, BSEE Public Affairs Specialist Where can one go on a...

Most STEM teachers know the importance of letting students explore, but usually it’s the students who struggle with “exploration”. We have created a a post with ideas, activities, and experiments geared toward exploration, and here is one of those, which...

Most STEM teachers know the importance of letting students explore, but usually it’s the students who struggle with “exploration”. We have created a a post with ideas, activities, and experiments geared toward exploration, and here is one of those, which...

Though most STEM teachers know the importance of letting students explore, it’s usually the students who struggle with “exploration”. We are living in a world where students get immediate feedback whenever they make decisions, so they’ve come to expect it,...

Anyone who has been a teacher or a parent knows how difficult it is to keep a child (of any age) focused on school when they’re excited about something. Whether that something is a holiday, a party, or a break...

We would like to congratulate the winners of the 2016 SeaPerch Competition: Kye Lee-Smith, Eric Zhang, Brian Towne, Colby Patterson, Anna Wilson, Rachel Hamilton, Tommy Wilson, Sofia Trevino, Carmen Mendez, Cooper Williams, Christopher Hugo Escobar, Nathan Vipal, Christian Miller, Suraj...