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2023 Summer Camps in Sarasota, Manatee – Science

March 18, 2023 sNawaWebs.ADV

Listings with photos are in paid partnership with Observer Media Group.

MANATEE | SARASOTA | LAKEWOOD RANCH | BOTH COUNTIES

The Bishop Museum of Science and Nature Summer Science Camps

201 10th St. W. Bradenton

Details: Kids explore science and nature topics through games, crafts, experiments, investigations and more. Each week brings a different theme.
Camp dates: Weekly sessions 9:15 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., Elementary camps June 5-Aug. 4 (No camp July 3-7), Middle School camps June 19-23 and July 17-21
Tuition: $225 per week for members of the Discovery Society, $300 per week for others. Scholarships available.
Ages: 7-14
Contact: 941-746-4131 ext. 145; [email protected]; BishopScience.org/science-camp; Click here to register!

STEAM Kids of the Future

Braden River Middle School, Room 605, 6215 River Club Blvd., Bradenton

Details: Campers will learn about coding, 3D printing, robotics and more while working on hands-on projects. Each week will have a different

Sweeping report calls for anti-bias measures in US science

March 17, 2023 sNawaWebs.ADV

Universities and other employers in the US science sector must adopt practices that foster a safe and inclusive community, finds a report¹ from the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), which outlines how such institutions can do so. The report calls for systemic change across multiple levels to account for the lengthy history of discrimination against people of colour and members of marginalized communities in the United States.

Susan Fiske, co-chair of the committee behind the report, says that bias and discrimination in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) is structural1 in the United States. This culture, she says, results in policies that reinforce each other and attitudes that perpetuate lifelong disadvantages for certain groups. “The converging data from surveys and experiments and observations tells us that you

New Budget Prioritizes Science, Technology

March 15, 2023 sNawaWebs.ADV

New Budget Prioritizes Science, Technology

3/13/2023

By
Cari Shearer and Jacob Winn

iStock illustration

After a late budget request and multiple continuing resolutions, President Joe Biden signed into law a full-year omnibus appropriations act for the 2023 fiscal year — with increased funding for defense science and technology programs.

Science-and-technology programs received more than $22 billion in direct appropriations across the Defense Department — more than 18 percent above fiscal year 2022 funding, and nearly $6 billion more than what was requested for 2023.

These additions — commonly referred to as congressional earmarks — when informed by industry or university technical and defense market expertise, and aligned with transition opportunities, can represent an expedited path through the otherwise cumbersome traditional programming and budgeting process.

This can make the programs funded by this year’s increases more responsive to threats, technological opportunity or program realities. That said,

10 Good TV Shows That Got Science Completely Wrong

March 14, 2023 sNawaWebs.ADV

Science is detailed, so it’s not surprising that many TV shows get it totally wrong. After all, screenwriters only have storytelling skills, not all the information about chemistry, physics, and biology. A show’s budget is also a major factor, and it would cost a lot more if it was a requirement to hire a scientist as a consultant.

RELATED: 10 Best TV Shows That Are Surprisingly Short

Ordinarily, it’s easy to ignore science errors or simply not spot them at all if the story is good enough. That’s the category that many entries on this list fall on. However, there are times when the inaccuracies are too glaring, causing viewers to slightly lose interest.

10 Breaking Bad (2008 – 2014)

“4 Days Out”

Breaking Bad‘s blending of actual Chemistry procedures with criminal activities is one of the key reasons it’s regarded as one of the best-written TV shows ever.

Students show out science acuity at county fair

March 13, 2023 sNawaWebs.ADV

How does global warming affect corn crops? How much salt do you need to add to water to make an egg float? How much sawdust can you put in a cereal treat bar before someone notices? These are just a few questions asked by students from schools all across the region as they participated in the Flathead County Science Fair on Thursday.

Science lovers of all ages packed into the Expo Center at the Flathead County Fairgrounds to take a look at projects from students in third grade and up.

Retired civil engineer Roger Marsonette has been judging the science fair for about seven years. He likes seeing what the students can come up with for their projects.

“To see the imagination of the kids — some of their experiments are just different from the typical boiling water kind of stuff. There are some really interesting things out there, how