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Charles Hard Townes (1915-2015 ) is South Carolina's only Nobel Prize winner, an honor he was awarded for his development of the laser. This photograph shows him accepting that award in Stockholm...
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This segment is about the VAB or Vehicle Assembly Building. It is 525 feet tall, taller than the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty. It is longer than two football fields put together. It...
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Jim Gerard, an aerospace education specialists at Kennedy Space Center, discusses the astronauts becoming weightless and demonstrates a ball that, when dropped, alarms as it falls and is momentarily...
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In this lesson, students will learn a brief history of rockets, rocket design, and build and test a foam rocket. This lesson can be used in a larger Force and Motion Unit.
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Through the eyes of a director on a TV set, students will experience how lighting plays a role in production while more deeply investigating the STEM behind the profession of director.
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Students will investigate friction by a) using inquiry to make observations about particular surfaces, receiving direct instruction related to the inquiry activity, and then by conducting an...
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Dr. Charles Townes, a scientist and a Nobel Prize Winner, and the inventor of the laser, answers a student's question about how he became a scientist. He says it began with his interest in nature and...
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Dr Kary Mullis, Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, 1993, discovered how to clone DNA. He also grew up in Columbia, S.C.! He earned a Ph.D in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. In...
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John Weidner, Ph.D., a chemical engineer at the University of South Carolina, talks about his researchers studying alternative energy storage - The “diSCovering Science” series features interviews...
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Carolina Money got to interview Moultrie Ball, founder of RumbleLab, about his inspiration for the company and what it does. Here, we get a hands-on experience with one of RumbleLab's engineering kits...