Tag Archives: Engineering

Engineering Whiz Kid Invents things using Broken Parts from Bins

When MIT discovered Kevin, he was living in utter poverty. But that didn’t stop him from building something amazing..

Whiz kid from Sierra Leone built own battery, radio transmitter

Kelvin Doe’s neighborhood in Sierra Leone has power lines, but they seldom deliver electricity. So, the 16-year-old whiz kid built his own battery out of acid, soda, and metal parts scavenged from trash bins that he now uses to light up area homes and help him work on his own inventions. Among other gadgets to […]

NASA SEEKS UNDERGRADS TO DEFY GRAVITY FOR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/about/index.html NEWS SOURCE : NASA HOUSTON — NASA is offering undergraduate students an opportunity to test an experiment in weightless science as part of the agency’s Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program. Proposals are due by Oct. 27.

NASA Launches Web Site for Teenagers That Want More Class

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Monday, December 14, 2009 Source: NASA HQ http://missionscience.nasa.gov/ NASA has launched a new website created specifically for teenagers that provides teens access to current NASA spacecraft data for use in school science projects, allows them to conduct real experiments with NASA scientists, and helps them locate space-related summer internships. Called “Mission:Science,” […]