by Darlene Cavalier | Jun 18, 2013 | In the News, Science Policy, video
Click here to learn a little more about wind energy, in less than four minutes. Special thanks to the National Science Foundation, Discover Magazine, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for sponsoring...
by Darlene Cavalier | Jan 8, 2013 | In the News, ISS
From the news office of the University of California, Davis: Cheering microbes into space Wendy Brown, a graduate student in biomedical engineering, will recruit school kids and volunteers to collect microbial samples from a wide range of environments. (Taylor...
by Darlene Cavalier | Jan 3, 2013 | In the News, Mentorships
This is a news segment featuring two of the Science Cheerleaders who cheer for the Washington Redskins and one Science Cheerleader who had cheered for the Washington Wizards. They spent a morning at Hammond High School in Columbia, MD mentoring high school girls there...
by Darlene Cavalier | Nov 30, 2012 | Blog, Citizen Science, In the News, ISS
This morning, Space Florida announced that a research proposal submitted by SciStarter, Science Cheerleader and UCDavis won a competition to fly innovative research projects on the International Space Station via Space X in December 2013. We are stoked. This research...
by Darlene Cavalier | Oct 8, 2012 | In the News, Pop Warner
WE LOVE this televised news segment. Hits on girls in science, stereotypes, citizen science opportunities and Pop Warner! The STEM fields — science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — have always had trouble attracting women. A recent report by the...
by Darlene Cavalier | Sep 21, 2012 | In the News
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