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NJIT doctoral students receive recognition at poster competition

Giuseppe Di Benedetto and Micaela Caramellino, two doctoral students in NJIT’s graduate chemical engineering program, recently received recognition at a student poster event organized for developing efficient and robust approaches to manufacture nano- and micro-sized drug particles. The New Jersey section of the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering was the sponsor.

Patent Office Hosts Toy Design Competition For Students

The Patent Office said the competition aims to show students from grades five to eight that engineering is collaborative, creative, and all around them.

Ohio middle school students win Future City Competition

A city of the future, named "RA," engineered by students from Heritage Middle School in Westerville, Ohio, has won the 2008 National Engineers Week Future City Competition.

Two Local Students Named 'Chicago's Best' in International Children's Painting Competition By United Nations Environment Programme and Bayer on World Environment Day

Bayer USA Foundation Bestows First $10,000 World Environment Day Community Grant for Environmental Education Project at Waters Elementary CHICAGO, June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Thirteen-year old Andrey Velizarow Simeonovski, a fifth-grader at Chase Elementary School, and seven-year old Patrick Lambe, a first-grader from St. Monica's Academy, were named the two local winners of the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) 17th annual International Children's Painting Competition (ICPC) in North America for their artwork on the theme, "Climate Change: Actions We Can Take Now." The two winners were each awarded the "Chicago's Best" prize on World Environment Day by UNEP and Bayer Corporation representatives at the Chicago Botanic Garden during the first-ever unveiling of the International Children's Painting Competition Exhibition in North Ame

Artists in School on display

Grade five students from E.E. Oliver school were allow to tour their projects June 18, at the Fine Arts Centre before the Artists at School project wraps up. The hard work of the students were on display from June 16 through to the 21. Pictured above, Miranda Giesbrecht and Marcy Osowetski check out some of the work done by fellow students. On display were drawing, water colour paintings, clay mouldings, dioramas, and maquettes made by participating students. Around 230 students in Grades four, five and six from St. Thomas More and EE Oliver The goal of the project is to get student to be more creativity and passionate about art while developing skills. The project is intended to help enhance the current curriculum. Both Constance Davidson and Eilene Coristine were the instructors for this years Artists at School.

M F Husain enchants evening at painting exhibition

A total of 286 students who had excelled in the ‘Essay Writing and Poster Making Competition’ organised recently by the Serve And Inspire (SAI) Group in co-operation with the Ministry of Education, will receive their prizes today. Redha Said Mohamed al Lawati, Director of the Office of the International Schools, Ministry of Education, is the chief guest at today’s prize distribution ceremony at the Indian School, Al Ghubra at 7.30pm. A number of dignitaries from the Ministry of Education and officials from the corporate world apart from the distinguished judges of the competition, who had lent their wholehearted support to the event, will also attend the function.

Students receive dual recognition for works of art

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Taiwanese students teach robot-assembling skills in Finland

Taiwan's robotic science educational seed teachers are proving to be a hit at this year's International Science Fair in Finland. Thirty students from Taiwan have provided instruction to students from a number of nations on how to make and assemble robots. Their performance amazed many on the scene. As such, Finland's technology innovation bureau extended an invitation to 10 students from Taiwan to spend one summer month touring their nation to teach people about robots. Chien You-lin, a student at Pacific American School in Hsinchu, said that if time permits, he would be willing to go.

Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers

palegray.net writes "According to a new study performed by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute in Washington, increased emphasis on helping students with a history of lower academic achievement results in lower performance for high achievers. This trend appears to be related to the No Child Left Behind Act. Essentially, programs designed to devote a large number of resources to assisting students who are deemed to be 'significantly behind' leave little room for encouraging continued academic growth for higher-performing students."

Nanotech firm wins UH competition

A nanotechnology firm won first place in the University of Hawaii's [profile] annual business plan competition. NanoGreen Inc. will receive a total of $40,000 -- $20,000 for winning the competition and an additional $20,000 technology prize from the university's Office of Technology Transfer and Economic Development. Team members Donavan Kealoha, Mehrdad Nejhad, Richard Russ, Lee Taylor and Atul Tiwari created a company to specialize in nanotechnology research and development. Nanotechnology involves manipulating materials at their atomic and molecular levels.

University of Wolverhampton: Students reach finals of video game contest A team of University of Wolverhampton students are designing a new video game for a popular console as part of a national competition.

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Sponsors pledge exciting prizes to Grow Wellâ?"s Mandela essay and art competition

Courts St Lucia Ltd., Rotary Club Gros Islet, St Lucia Golf and Country Club Youth Empowerment Programme and Dominos pizza have each pledged a laptop computer to the first prize winners of the Grow Well Mandela Essay and Art Competition. The competition, launched earlier this month, is part of an effort by the charitable organisation to engage the talents of the youth of the Gros Islet district in a commemoration of Nelson Mandela’s work on the eve of his 90th birthday celebrations. The Nobel Laureate is recognised worldwide as an exemplary advocate for humanitarianism and the competition coincides with the tenth anniversary of his visit to St Lucia in 1998.

Five US Students Selected to International Physics Competition

Five US students have been chosen to travel to Hanoi in Vietnam July 20-30 for the International Physics Olympiad.

A robotics competition is testing students' skills

Five high schools from the UAE participated in the UAE leg of the Botball Educational Robotics Programme late last month. Al Mawakeb School-Al Barsha, the American Community School of Abu Dhabi, Al Mawakeb School-Garhoud, the Dubai American Academy and the International School of Arts and Science participated in the national competition rounds that took place at the Dubai American Academy.

Lunar Art

NASA recently invited college and high school students to submit artwork for a contest on the theme "Life and Work on the Moon." NASA encouraged students to form inter-disciplinary teams, so that art and humanities students could collaborate with science and engineering students, "to produce the most well-informed art work possible." NASA just announced the winners of the contest. The first place submission is above, and is called Traffic Jam, by Justin Burns, a sophomore at the University of Memphis.

Genius High School Robot Team Can't Afford College

IconThis month's Wired magazine has a terriffic story about a team of students from a high school in an economically depressed part of Phoenix, who took part in an underwater-robot building competition against students from the top universities in the country -- and won. All of the students are undocumented Mexican immigrants who don't qualify for most financial aid or even in-state tuition, and therefore can't afford to attend college, in the US, Mexico, or anywhere. When I read the article I determined to try to do something to help give these kids their chance, and I was delighted to discover that their faculty advisor has set up a scholarship fund for them, and I'm about to donate some money to help. I'd like to encourage OSNews readers to read the story, and if they feel the same way, to donate.

Closing The Achievement Gap In Math And Science

The latest results from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program show not only improved proficiency among all elementary and middle school students, but also a closing of the achievement gaps between both African-American and Hispanic students and white students in elementary school math, and between African-American and white students in elementary and middle-school science.

Shelter sponsors student art contest

Rockland Family Shelter and the firm of Mandel Katz & Brosnan, LLP are inviting Rockland County student artists to submit entries in the fourth Annual "Ending Violence Against Women and Girls" Art Contest. The competition is open to students grades 9th through 12th.. There will be one grand prize winner of $500 and four honorable mentions. Honorable mentions will receive $100 each and the winning school is eligible for a $250 prize. The purpose of the contest is to motivate students to become involved in creating a community where all individuals are empowered to live with dignity and without fear". All entries will be displayed at a reception sometime in the future to which the contestants, family members and friends as well as local dignitaries will be invited to view their work on display.

Handhelds: Getting Mobile

How can children lead productive and satisfying lives in the 21st century if in school we are having them use technology from the 20th century? The hallmark of the 21st century global workplace is the computer. According to a recent Pew Internet and American Life Project study, "The Digital Disconnect: The Widening Gap between Internet-Savvy Students and Their Schools," students spend 27 hours a week online at home and an average of 15 minutes a week at school. Students are not using computers to any appreciable degree in school because district leaders are not providing computers to students to any appreciable degree.

Wild Scotland Photo Competition with Andy Cairns

Competition win for member - ePHOTOzine member Harry Brenkley (HenB) wins 2nd place in The Wild Scotland photo competition with his image Sudden Death.

Students Make the Ultimate Long Distance Call to the Space Station

HOUSTON, May 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Students from coast to coast will have the opportunity to make an out of this world call to the International Space Station on Monday, May 12, from 11:20 a.m. to 11:40 a.m. CDT. The students and educators from One Stop Richmond Hill Community Center, Richmond Hill, N.Y., and Valley Christian Elementary School, Bellflower, Calif., will participate in the event.

Students Win State Honors for Science Projects

Five seventh-graders from Bellbrook Middle School received recognition for their projects at the 60th annual State Science Day at Ohio State University on May 10, competing with more than 1,000 students from 282 middle schools and high schools.

Students Blog from Amazon Jungle

A group of University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Engineering and Public Health students has arrived in South America to build drinking-water wells and work on reducing water-related illness and death. The project is a partnership between students at UAB’s schools of Engineering and Public Health, and the UAB chapter of the nonprofit group Engineers Without Borders.

Students from Taiwan and U.S. Win at International Science Fair

Teenagers from the United States and Taiwan won the top honors Friday at the world's largest science competition for high-school students. Mike Cooper talked to winners of the international science fair held in the southeastern U.S. city of Atlanta.

Students Condemn U.S.-Style Copyright Legislation

OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - June 12, 2008) - The new copyright bill introduced this morning by federal Industry Minister Jim Prentice will make it harder for students to get access to copyrighted material for study and artistic creation, says the Canadian Federation of Students.

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