Science is a Blast at NASA Event: Middle Schoolers Across State Have Some High-Tech Fun
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By Janet L. Metzner, The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va.  Sep. 20--A middle school student held a long, lighted candle toward a yellow balloon. As the flame touched, the balloon exploded in a small ball of fire, followed by visible waves of heat in the air.
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By Beth Gallaspy, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Jun. 22--PORT NECHES -- A Nederland middle school math teacher is getting ready for a week of rocket building and space simulations with a sense of enthusiasm he hopes to bring back to the classroom this fall.
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By Michael Duck, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Sep. 5--Dwarfed by the towering, dark dome of Bethlehem Area School District's planetarium, teacher Bill Safranek flipped to a slide depicting what used to be the nine planets of the solar system.
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Finalists display innovations and compete for $100,000 scholarships at the nation's top high school science event.
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Data from the far reaches of outer space have been streaming into Dan Reisenfeld&#39;s computer at the University of Montana since late Wednesday.
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By JAMIE KENNEDY  The painstaking work of Kyle O'Donnell and Eric Luibrand won't just be displayed at the county science fair.   The Southwest High School juniors will have more glory than that.  Their science projects have earned them a trip to China.
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Students from across the country received an extra dose of holiday cheer this past weekend with the successful delivery of their experiment samples to the International Space Station.
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By Paul Tosto, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Feb. 12--A science education can open doors to some of the best careers in Minnesota, and students who do well in the sciences can expect to be in high demand.
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NASA officials in Alabama are calling on the next generation of space explorers to design and race their lunar rovers in NASA's 14th Great Moonbuggy Race.  The event at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., is open to high school and college students, NASA said.
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As a participant in National Engineers Week, ExxonMobil is sending our  engineers into eight Fairfax County Public Middle Schools to raise  awareness of engineering career opportunities for everyone, especially  young women.
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REDFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Nearly two years after their experiments were destroyed in the Columbia shuttle explosion, high school students are getting a second chance to see how space affects everyday things such as hair, flowering seeds and plant food.
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Maybe the science teachers at Broken Arrow Elementary School can teach a lesson on life being full of surprises.
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The work of students at 11 high schools throughout the US will be on board an unmanned Russian supply rocket headed for the International Space Station.
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By James Fuller Daily Herald Staff Writer  It was just a formality for the Wheaton Warrenville Unit District 200 school board to approve a Warrenville land purchase for a new Hubble Middle School Wednesday night.  But it didn't happen without both protest and praise.
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An Ohio company has found a niche by converting yellow school buses into hands-on laboratories as a highly mobile way to try to get students excited about science.
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With a little help from NASA, students from McNair High School - which is named for an astronaut â-ight play a role in future space exploration.
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It has the technology to land men on the moon and send probes into the darkest reaches of space. But Nasa&#39;s newest project has more in common with school science lessons than Star Wars.