Elizabeth Henderson, 2018 Presidential Awardee
Friday morning inspo ✨
Elizabeth Henderson, a 2018 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and #Science Teaching recipient, shares how she hopes to inspire deaf students across the country to continue pursuing their goals.
Learn more about Elizabeth’s story below ⬇️ #PAEMST
What will be your adventure?
LIGO EX facility video NSF.mp4
Get a glimpse at the new state-of-the-art education facility coming to Washington State https://bit.ly/34yaFKL.
The facility will teach students and the public about the marvels of gravitational waves and other NSF- supported discoveries from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (or LIGO for short!).
The facility is scheduled to open in January 2022.
Meet SlothBot!
He's cute. He's slow. He's SlothBot!
#NSFfunded researchers at the Georgia Tech are testing out this slow-moving, energy-efficient robot in the battle to save some of the world’s most endangered species https://bit.ly/2FNTJqc.
#SlothDay
Scientist Selfie: Meet Sheila Semans, Executive Director of the Noyo Center for Marine Science
Sheila Semans takes us to her "lab" for a first-look 👀 at the bones of the world's largest animal 🐋
Watch ▶️ #NationalFossilDay
Earth Science Week
Like all scientists, earth scientists rely on data collected by drones, airplanes ✈️ and satellites 🛰️ , to better understand the Earth 🌎 and how it changes over time.
During #EarthScienceWeek, engage your students in learning more about collecting and analyzing scientific data with these #NSFfunded K-12 activities https://bit.ly/2Ik5i9m.
‼️ Bonus ‼️ Activities are aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards.
Get to Know NSF’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array
Today, the Very Large Array turns 4️⃣ 0️⃣ 🎉
Here’s everything you need to know about the most versatile, widely used radio telescope in the 🌍 world: https://bit.ly/3nBtjcn.
4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About
Smart walls, wildfire cocktail, robot responders, and seismic signs. Find out how these “ 4️⃣ Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About” are standing up to Mother Nature.
Watch ▶️ #NationalPreparednessMonth
Winners of the NSF STEM Dive Challenge
You voted ✅, and this week we announced the winners 🎉 of this year's #STEM Dive Challenge.
Check out the full list of winners and their submissions here https://bit.ly/2G8wqXQ.
Empowering the next Generation of Latinas
Find out how the University of Puerto Rico is empowering the next generation of Latinas to create, inspire ✨, and explore.
Watch 📹 #HispanicHeritageMonth
Emma Yokum, Green Bank Observatory's Safety Officer
The safety of #science 🤔
Learn how this recent grad helps keep science and scientist safe at the NSF supported facility, Green Bank Observatory.
Nominations for the 2020-2021 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (#PAESMEM) are now open.
PAESMEM recognizes individuals and organizations that are performing exceptional #STEM mentoring activities, like the 2018 Awardee Salil Desai. If you know a champion in #STEM mentoring, nominate them today. bit.ly/PAESMEM21
You Are Already a Scientist
You can be a scientist, no matter who you are, where you're from, or what you look like. ✨
Scientist Selfie: Meet Cherie Kagan
Take a tour of NSF's new engineering research center and the work this scientist 👩🔬 is doing to advance technologies to address food 🌾, energy 🔋, and 💧 water security challenges.
This #NSFfunded lab is one of four new engineering research centers that will address large-scale societal challenges https://bit.ly/3gYExny.
Watch ▶️
Brain + Creativity
We’ve all heard the talk about left-brain versus right-brain. 🧠 But where in the brain does creativity come from?
#NSFfunded scientists at Drexel University explain. Watch ▶️
4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn't Hear About - Ep. 41
We’re back with 4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About, all with funding from NSF: https://bit.ly/2CPXWbc
✅ The oldest Maya monument
✅ A mattress becomes a skateboard wheel!?!
✅ Rock 'n roll -- with real rocks!
✅ And a deep relationship. (Except one eats the other.) 🤭
Magic School Bus
To the bus! 🚌
With those words, millions of children climbed aboard a shape-shifting school bus to go careening through the solar system, the blood stream – wherever “the Friz” resolved to go.
The #MagicSchoolBus will always be part of our childhood. Today, we remember the author, Joanna Cole, and the many great adventures she took us on.
RIP 💛
Learn more about the Magic School Bus and the other #science programming funded by NSF https://bit.ly/3fRdavb.
How to Science: Liquefaction
Summer is the perfect time to try a #DIY #science experiment ⚛️
Check out this step-by-step “how-to” you can do at home with the kids to demonstrate soil liquefaction, a phenomenon where saturated soil takes on the characteristics of a liquid during an earthquake.
Watch ▶️
What is engineering?
✅ Flying cars
✅ Earth-sized atmospheric filters
✅ Hologram phones
Who can make these things happen? Engineers!
Learn more about engineering and how its changed the world ⬇️
Happy #EngineersDay!
Scientist Selfie: Meet Kelly Sutherland
What exactly do jellyfish (and other organisms with large watery bodies) eat? This researcher goes underwater to find out.
Dive in ⬇️ #OceanMonth2020
NSF COLORING PAGES!
Explore the ocean with these under the sea scenes brought to you by NSF!
Download all five of our #OceanMonth2020 coloring pages here ➡️ https://bit.ly/3dGbwdH.
Scientist Selfie: Meet Dr. Hendratta Ali
This scientist takes us to her lab..... in a tropical estuary (the🌊 tidal mouth of a large river) on the Atlantic coast. #OceanMonth2020
Watch 👇
2020 Frontiers Symposium.mp4
Join us tomorrow at 12:00 p.m. for our virtual 2020 Frontiers in Ocean Sciences Symposium https://bit.ly/3fqHWu6.
The theme of this year’s symposium is partnerships. Four #NSFfunded scientists will share their pioneering research, their stories, and how they have fostered and learned from partnerships in their careers. #OceanMonth2020
Why Does it Rain?
This morning, join Timon and Pumba for another adventure as they investigate why it rains and the role our oceans, lakes, and rivers play. #OceanMonth2020
Why is it so cold at the poles?
Spend your Saturday 🌅 morning with Timon and Pumba as they take a trip to the Poles to figure out why it's so cold there 🤔
Scientist Selfie: Meet Ken Keenan
Get a glimpse into what it's like to #quarantine on a ship for 21 days with Ken Keenan, winter site manager at Palmer Station, Antarctica 🇦🇶.
Scientist Selfie: Meet Mara Menahan
Balloons 🎈, helium, and two miles of ice 😱
Take a peek 👀 at the #science happening at the center of the Greenland ice sheet ⬇️
Why do we sneeze?
NSF + the Lion King’s Timon and Pumba teamed up to answer your kid’s most burning questions - like why do we sneeze? 🤧
Scientist Selfie: Meet Joe Wartman
From standing in the fields after Hurricane Katrina to the front lines of the #COVID19 response, learn more about this scientist's work in tracking disasters and recoveries ⬇️
Scientist Selfie: Meet Dr. Valencia
Meet Dr. Valencia 👋 molecular geneticist and chief clinical officer at Aperiomics, a #NSFfunded small business that is currently using its expertise and equipment to perform tests that specifically detect the virus that causes #COVID19 https://bit.ly/2X11T34.
Check out the video below as Dr. Valencia shares some insight into his life and work in the lab ⬇️