Monthly Archives: January 2015

Family Engineering Night

Family Engineering Night is back at the Challenger Learning Center of Maine! Gather everyone together to create a catapult as part of an engineering challenge on January 29th from 6:00-7:30pm. Admission is $3 per person or $10 per family. The proceeds support the Center‘s mission to inspire careers in STEM fields. (You must preregister by January 28th […]

Teenagers are awesome

Many teens, like the adults they will become, are not only conscientious about the world around them but are innovative in finding solutions to the problems of said world. Energy costs are rising, and to help with those costs, a British teen, Yasser Khattak, has invented smart plug sockets you can control from an app on your […]

Happy Science Fiction Day!

January 2nd is National Science Fiction Day. It stems from the birthday of the famous science fiction writer (and author of popular science books), Isaac Asimov. There is a huge difference between science and science fiction, but many science fiction readers and film fans become attracted to the field of science because of the novels they’ve read or the movies […]