Challenger Center, a nonprofit science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education organization and St. Clair County Community College (SC4) are teaming up to open a Challenger Learning Center on the College’s campus. Challenger Learning Center at St. Clair County Community College will serve Michigan and Ontario students using programs that introduce STEM subjects and careers and inspire students to pursue these essential fields. The Center is scheduled to open in early 2022.
“SC4 is an ideal location for a Challenger Learning Center,” said Dr. Deborah Snyder, president of St. Clair County Community College. “We are committed to expanding student interest in STEM and encouraging STEM higher education opportunities on our campus. The addition of a Challenger Learning Center supports the college and our community by fostering a robust culture of STEM, strengthening STEM education opportunities, integrating business, industry and educational entities, and creating hig
Challenger Learning Center honors 7 crew member lost 35 years ago
Teachers and students in Tallahassee are remembering the seven crew members aboard the space shuttle Challenger who lost their lives.
Posted at 5:21 PM, Jan 28, 2021
and last updated 2021-01-28 17:22:02-05
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) â Teachers and students in Tallahassee are remembering the seven crew members aboard the space shuttle Challenger who lost their lives.
The Challenger 51-L âTeacher in Spaceâ launch tragedy happened 35 years ago, on January 28, 1986.
The space shuttle was in the air for more than a minute when a plume of hot solid fuel poured out from one of the rocket boosters hitting a liquid fuel tank, creating a giant fireball thousands of feet in the air.
Bangor, Maine News Update: January 29, 2021
The Maine CDC reports 288 new cases of COVID-19 and 5 more people who have died. Governor Janet Mills will end the 9pm early closing time, beginning Monday. She said her decision is the result of a decrease in the state’s positivity rate of new cases of the virus.
A group of Aerospace engineers are hoping to make history on Sunday, when they launch the Stardust, a 20 foot tall, 650 pound rocket into space. If it succeeds, it will be the world’s first commercial launch of a rocket powered by a bio-derived fuel. The blueshift Aerospace rocket will only be airborne for a short time after it launches from the former Loring Air Force Base in Loring.
POTTSTOWN â âThe future is really bright for Pottstownâ in terms of its economic development.
That was one of the messages Thursday from Peggy Lee-Clark, executive director of Paid Inc., the Pottstown Area Industrial Development Inc., during the organizationâs âState of Economic Development of Pottstownâ virtual meeting.
The purpose of the meeting was to âtake a pulse of where the focus is,â according to Lee-Clark, and to look at âwhat are the things we can accomplish that will make a difference.â She added that not everything can be done at once.
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Stephen Rodriguez, Pottstown School District Superintendent and PAID Inc. board of directors president, said PAID has been âsingularly focusedâ on economic development in Pottstown, adding that the work PAID does is important.
February Virtual Vacation Camp Registration Underway
You need a break. Your kids need a break. And here comes the February vacation for school kids.
Registration has started for Challenger Learning Center of Maine s February Virtual Vacation Camp 2021. Here is the link. Camp takes place February 15th to 19th and students meet virtually with a Challenger staffer for an hour a day, with experiments and homework, fun homework. It s hands on STEM learning, and yes it s fun. Great way to inspire your child this winter break.
They will make their own slime, and test it against other materials. How about a trip to Mars? And they ll learn all about star gazing in our Maine winter. Plus so many more activities that teach, and are fun for kids.