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Showing posts with label Super Science Saturday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Super Science Saturday. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Niles, You Will Be Missed

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
 And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
 Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
 of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
 You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
 High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
 I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
 My eager craft through footless halls of air....

" Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
 I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.
 Where never lark, or even eagle flew —
 And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
 The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
 - Put out my hand, and touched the face of God."



- "High Flight" by John Gillespie Magee

Our sincerest condolences to his wife, Majella, and his loving children and family.  Services will be held Friday, 12 April 2013, 11:00 a.m., at Joshua Memorial Park and Mortuary, 808 East Lancaster Blvd., Lancaster, CA.


Niles Nilo assisting high school students with Bridge Building Workshop

Niles Nilo - Lockheed Martin Engineer
AV STEM Advocate - working with child at ArtSTEM Fair 2011

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Tehachapi Robotics Super Science Saturday 11/10/12

The second annual Tehachapi High School Robotics Club "Super Science Saturday" will be held on 10 November 2012 from noon to 6:00pm at the THS Cafeteria.  It will include hands-on displays, demonstrations and guest speakers; while the event is primarily geared towards elementary aged children, all are welcome.  Activities involve explosive chemistry, robotics, astronomy, quadrotors, engineering, gemology, and more.  Food is available for purchase.  For more information, contact Danielle Evansic at (661) 822-2130 or devansic@teh.k12.ca.us .

Monday, May 7, 2012

Palmdale Super Science Saturday

Students enjoy "noodle" rocket launching at Super Science Saturday in Palmdale.
On 14 April 2012, hundreds of middle school students from the Palmdale area attended the second annual  Super Science Saturday to be held at Los Amigos School.  They enjoyed hands-on events such as straw bridge-building, egg drop, rocket building, robotics, and soft projectile launching, as well as visiting interactive displays provided by Lockheed, NASA, Edwards Air Force Base, and AVUHSD academies, among others.
HHS Law & Government Academy demonstrates
fingerprinting techniques with SSS students.
KHS Digital Design & Engineering Academy shows connections between arts and STEM at Palmdale SSS.

Monday, December 12, 2011

STEM Activities Highlighted at Joe Walker Super Science Saturday

PHS Health Careers Academy students and teachers ready their demo display at Joe Walker SSS

QHHS Pre-Engineering teacher and student speak with students at Joe Walker SSS event.
Among pre-engineering, robotics, rocketry, and other STEM-related activities from Highland, Lancaster and Quartz Hill High Schools, as well as Society of Experimental Test Pilots, Edwards AFB, NASA, Lockheed Martin, SWE, AIAA, and others, students and teachers from Palmdale High School's Health Careers Academy hosted a demonstration table for middle school students from the Westside and Lancaster School Districts at Super Science Saturday on 10 December 2011 at Joe Walker Middle School.



 

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Tehachapi Super Science Saturday Held 11/12/11

A science and engineering exposition was held on Saturday, 12 November 2011, at Tehachapi High School.  Features included a morning LEGO League tournament for high desert robotics teams, with the afternoon dedicated to speakers, activities, and demonstrations.  There were give-aways from local industry and goodie bags provided to younger students.  Sessions scheduled were on unmanned aerial vehicles by Tim Bourgeois and Daniel Loehrer, bird-like flight and interplanetary space travel by Albion Bowers of NASA, rockets and rocket planes by Geoff Licciardello and Jeremy Voigt of XCOR, and fun with chemistry, among others.  (Courtesy of Cecilia Cordova, NASA Dryden, and Danielle Evansic, THS)