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NewsFusion for March 2026

Science...

• NASA shares plans for Moon and Mars | CNN
• Turns out, cloning has limitations | Nature
• String Theory may still be the best answer for explaining the universe | Quanta Magazine

Design...

• The Finnish embassy in New Delhi is still a Nordic architectural icon | Monocle
• AI's impact on Indigenous Knowledge in Fashion | Vogue
• Volvo's new VNL semi truck offers increased safety and fuel efficiency | Volvo

Culture...

• Museum of Youth Culture now open in London | The Guardian
• Jingle Dress class promotes healthy and culture | PBS Wisconson
• Moroccan Forum of Cultural and Creative Industries continues to grow | Africa24 TV

NFFTY 2013

The 2013 NFFTY (National Film Festival for Talented Youth) is underway! If you're in Seattle April 25-28 don't miss the opportunity to catch some of the most creative films around, all creations of budding film directors 22 and under.

Monster Role Model

Ramer started playing piano at five and took an interest in cars and engines about the same time alongside her Father, Kelvin Ramer who owns a auto towing company and drives monster trucks as well. Her own monster truck career started at age 14. What is most impressive is that Ramer plans to use the money she makes from driving the monster trucks to pursue an engineering degree at Stanford. Now at age 15, Ramer is the youngest professional female monster truck driver in the world and with the slogan "Living the Dream and chasing after more", she's out to prove that with a lot of hard work, anything is possible. YOU GO GIRL!

>> Ramer's Facebook Page.

AOL Morning Express picked up the story from HLN...

A Bright Future for Maui Nui

Image Credit: Robert Becklund via MEDB Focus Maui Nui, Youth Alliance
Focus Maui Nui is just one of several programs of the Maui Economic Development Board (MEDB) that is engaging the Maui community in shaping their future. Within Focus Maui Nui, the Youth Alliance program brings the energy and creativity of youth into discussions of the future with science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) - along with planning and design - being key components of many of the projects. The photo above is form the recent Youth Alliance Art Project. Most importantly, MEDB doesn't just inspire youth to think about and help shape the future, through their Ke Alahele Education Fund they are financially supporting youth in building STEM and planning skills as well.

Google Global Science Fair 2011

Attention all high school students...get out your Coke and menthos. Google has launched the first international online science fair for students 13 to 18 years old. Find all the info at the Google Global Science Fair 2011 website. Go volcano!

Washington teen redesigns the water bottle

Everett, WA high school senior Jordan Steeves has reimagined the ubiquitous water bottle to help market a paper water carton, Cykle. Cykle uses renewable resources, reduces waste, and biodegrades much sooner than conventional water bottles. Along the way, Steeves has inspired many students and scholars and was winner of the Washington State University's annual high school energy competition, Imagine Tomorrow. Steeves is now off to Western Washington University to major in environmental sciences...with young minds like Steeves' at work, we're in for a bright green future for sure. Congrats Jordan!

Find an article and video on Steeves' project on King5.com.

Learn about other paper carton solutions like h20 and Tetra Pak.

Event | Seattle | Imagination into Ink | June 3 & 4

The Seattle Arts & Lectures program Writers in the Schools (WITS) and The Seattle Public Library present Imagination into Ink: The 2009 WITS Student Reading & Celebration.

Date: June 3 & 4
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Central Library, Level 1 in the Microsoft Auditorium

2008 Winners of Siemens Competition

The Siemens Foundation recently announced their 2008 winners of their annual Siemens Competition in Math, Science, and Technology. Wen Chyan and the team of Sajith M. Wickramasekara and Andrew Y. Guo won the $100,000 Grand Prize for their projects titled "Versatile Antimicrobial Coatings from Pulse Plasma Deposited Hydrogels and Hydrogel Composites" and "A Functional Genomic Framework for Chemotherapeutic Drug Improvement and Identification" respectively.

SeanChron - Who is the science fairest of them all?

I attended my second science fair today. This time it was a full on contest. The group was made up of 6th, 7th, and 8th graders from the North Deanery schools in Seattle (Catholic Schools). I must admit, it was a completely different experience than the previous science fair. The judging was really quite an additional stress! Each of the 120 or so judges visited three projects and then judged them on ten criteria such as orginality, hypothesis testing, presentation, etc. Once again, I was really impressed with both the students and the projects. There were lots of familiar projects, such as the Coke and Menthos, but lots of pretty original projects too, like the curve of a baseball throw and the longevity of lipstick. The contests was held at the NOAA facility at Sand Point (a formal Naval base in Seattle) so I think the students were pretty psyched to be there. One thing for sure, in both formats that I've now experienced, it takes a LOT of work to organize such an event...kudos to the teachers!!! The picture above/right

SeanChron - Science, science everywhere

I'm very excited to report that Future-ish made its official Seattle dubut last week when I attended a science fair at an north Seattle elementary school as part of a group of scientists that provided feedback to the budding young scientists. I must say I was ASTOUNDED by the students' efforts and scientific understanding. I provided project feedback to both 3rd graders and 5th graders and in both cases, I wsa blown away. Their science was very clear and simple and their presentation skills were just as impressive. The above project for example, from a 5th grader, not only tested several ways of telling time, impressive in itself...it incorporated glitter! The teacher that organized the event had the idea of including local scientists last year. The opportunity to interact with scientists got the students so excited the teacher decided to continue the practice. This year, there were three times - THREE TIMES - as many students that participated in the fair. I guess scientists can be rockstars afterall.

Confluence - It is hip to be square after all

They stole our line, totally. We were all about how it's confirmed...it's hip to be square. But a nonprofit in South Africa beat us to the puncline. And they did a great job. Hip2b2 is a South African nonprofit organization that is trying to show that being smart, especially in math and science, is cooler than cool. Hip2b2 was started by the first astronaut from the African continent, Mark Shuttleworth. Their website is totally awesome, addictive actually and by the looks of their recent ad campaign, they're poised to really make some change in Africa, as well as around the world.

Culture Beat - Brick Awards

Do Something and CWTV announce the 2007 Brick Awards celebrating young people shaping a better world...leaders of today and tomorrow.