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The Microsoft Imagine Cup is the world's premier student technology competition. It provides an opportunity for students to use their creativity, passion, and knowledge of technology to help solve global challenges and make a difference in the world. While competing for cash and prizes, students gain real-life experiences, make new friends, and change the world. Now in its tenth year, the Imagine Cup has grown to be a truly global competition focused on finding solutions to real-world problems. 358,000 students representing 183 countries and regions registered for the Imagine Cup 2011 Competition. The Imagine Cup is one way Microsoft encourages the brightest young minds to join together and use technology to take on the toughest problems facing our world today.

"Cool Stuff to do @ Home The activities are a part of The Tech's new IDEA (Innovation, Design, Exploration Activities) kits. They're a new endeavor for us here in the Programs Department, and we need your help and insight to make the kits program bigger, better, and more fun."

"The NASA Lunar Plant Growth Chamber design challenge helps teachers facilitate a collaborative science project for their students to determine the feasibility of using plants as bioregenerative life support systems for long duration space missions, including on future Moon bases. Plant growth will be an important part of space exploration in the future as NASA plans for long duration missions to the Moon and beyond to Mars."

"K-12math.info This website is a bibliographic resource which reviews and helps in the development of OER elementary and secondary school mathematics materials. Please respect the "Terms of use" statement that appears at the bottom of the sites this website links to. "

"FHSST Guide to Learning FHSST Volunteers We wrote a short guide to help learners get organised about their notes, studying and what to do in class because we found out that many weren't receiving any study advice. This guide has very simple ideas that can be implemented at almost any grade level. "

"Grade 5 Let's Do Science includes information to help you plan, implement and evaluate these topics in the classroom: Electricity and Magnetism, Mechanisms Using Electricity, Classroom Chemistry, Weather Watch and Wetland Ecosystems."

" PBS Teachers offers hundreds of standards-based, online resources designed to help teachers promote understanding of science concepts and development of hands-on science skills. "

"National DNA Day commemorates the completion of the Human Genome Project in April 2003 and the discovery of the double helix of DNA in 1953. Each year ASHG and its partners organize a variety of events that help K-12 students, teachers, and the public learn more about how genetics and genomics affect their lives. "

"Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman was always being told what she could and couldn't do. In an era when Jim Crow laws and segregation were a way of life, it was not easy to survive. Bessie didn't let that stop her. Although she was only 11 when the Wright Brothers took their historic flight, she vowed to become the first African-American female pilot. Her sturdy faith and determination helped her overcome obstacles of poverty, racism, and gender discrimination."

PlaneMath Activities Main Page. You can go directly to a lesson, get some help to get started, check out other great places on the Web, or have your teacher/parent learn how to use this Site. examples - Flight Path: Find the shortest path between 2 cities. Plane Capacity Plane Capacity: How many people can board your plane?

"Dr. Glenn Green, associate professor of pediatric otolaryngology, and Scott Hollister, professor of biomedical engineering & mechanical engineering and associate professor of surgery - used pioneering technology to come up with a solution. The University of Michigan Health System says Green and Hollister took a CT scan of Kaiba's trachea/bronchus and then created a tracheal splint using 3D printing."

"Access4Kids with the aim of opening up entertainment, educational benefits and social media available on tablets to children with fine motor impairments. The wireless input device uses a sensor system to translate physical movements into fine-motor gestures to control a tablet."

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From Yahoo News: By John Whitesides FLINT, Mich. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential contenders Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton sparred in a debate on Sunday over who had the best chance to beat Republican front-runner Donald Trump, and mocked the level of discourse in the Republican White House race. Near the end of a Michigan debate that featured sharp clashes over trade and the auto industry bailout, as well as a lengthy discussion of religion, Clinton and Sanders both said they could not wait to face the brash billionaire in the Nov. 8 election to succeed Democratic President Barack Obama. "I think Donald Trump's bigotry, his bullying, his bluster, are not going to wear well on the American people," Clinton said.

"Welcome to the First Flight Society, one of aviation's oldest organizations. We invite you to become a part of aviation's past, present and future by joining the Society. Your membership will help us accomplish our goals of memorializing the accomplishments of Wilbur and Orville Wright and promoting aviation in all its forms. "

"Subtracting Three Digit Numbers with Regrouping (Borrowing) Learning how to regroup when subtracting three digit numbers"

Welcome to the How-To Geek, the friendliest source of "how-to" articles anywhere. What Is The Goal of the How-To Geek Site? To be the best source of How-To articles anywhere, with content easy enough for beginners but useful enough for geeks as well.

"Math Games - Learn while you play fun games!"

"Take a look here for general top tips or select from the panel for age-specific ideas for 3-5 and 5-7 year olds."

Amelia Earhart - first women to fly across the Atlantic and the Pacific, participated in the first Women's Air Derby, founder of the Ninety-Nines. During an attempted around-the-world flight at the Equator, vanished near Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean in 1937