Posts Tagged ‘Science and Technology’
By Bruce Felps The Dallas Arboretum breaks ground Match 21 on what will become the Rory Meyers Children’s Adventure Garden. According to Arboretum information, planning began on the learning garden 10 years ago. It’s scheduled to be completed sometime during 2013.
By Bruce Felps So it’s true: opposites do attract … in a manner of speaking. An e-mail message from Hollywood-Santa Monica resident Susan Campbell, aka: Science Lady, just rolled in containing some fairly big news for the truly geeky and geeky at heart.
Community Contribution Solar energy is quickly becoming the energy for the future at Lakehill Preparatory School. The school yesterday dedicated a new a solar panel array donated by TXU Energy, through its TXU Energy Solar Academy program, and installed by Solar City. The installation at the Alice and Erle Nye Family Environmental Science Center provides [...]
By Bruce Felps I attended a ribbon-cutting and associated grip-and-grin this morning at Lakehill’s Alice and Erle Nye Family Environmental Science Center to dedicate a new teaching solar panel at the center. More on that later. But I had an interesting conversation with center namesake, Erle Nye, who spent a few decades as chairman of [...]
By Bruce Felps A cell phone purchased today becomes nearly obsolete tomorrow, and new phone upgrades happen regularly. But what to do with the old phone? The science department at J.L. Long Middle School offers a suggestion.
By Bruce Felps The Young Strikers, a Wii bowling team of C.C. Young residents, mounts its virtual bowling challenge Feb. 14 to unseat three-time National Senior League champion the SAS Strikers out of Florida. The Young Strikers — eight players ranging in age from their 50s-80s — train under coach Jerome Lewis, C. C. Young’s wellness [...]
By Bruce Felps I hate it when somebody else wields control over my doings. That’s one reason I am unmarried. [Ahem] Anyway, I, and therefore this little community news site, lost power this morning while a crew worked on a power line out back.
By Bruce Felps Erupting volcanoes, generating hand-cranked electricity, and growing potatoes in glasses of water are so mid-20th century. Check out the scientific experiments conducted by 21st century elementary school students — because you know there’s an app for that — when Lakewood Elementary puts on its annual science fair later this month.
By Bruce Felps The Dallas ISD this year tabbed Woodrow Wilson High School as one of the few schools to participate in a parental-involvement pilot project, and that is awesome alliteration. The project, called Parent Portal, provides easy access for parents to communicate with teachers via the Web, check out assignments and grades, and track [...]
By Bruce Felps Corporate-speak makes me laugh. I heard it a great deal back in the day when I practiced the Black Arts of PR, but lately not so much because Bogart doesn’t talk. He communicates well enough, but he doesn’t talk, and he’s about the only being I see much of anymore. Anyway, the [...]
