Nupur and Grace talk with students. "Yeah. Beauty school is kind of like engineering. Both are deaing with energy: engineering is dealing with all sorts of energy, while beauty school is dealing with mainly chemical energy, maybe some electrical energy too. But, engineering gives you the opportunity to help the environment."
'Goldrush' has arrived in Texas and is now being inspected carefully before entering the Formula Sun Grand Prix solar car race. in Cresson, Texas, June 1 -5, 2009
Robert Irwin, is the leader of the car's Steering & Suspension design team.
CalSol engineering student, Robert Irwin, and Bruce Mayer, PE Engineering Instructor, Chabot College discuss the many problem solving techniques used to get the solar car to where it is now. Thank you, Mr. Mayer, for your kind and thoughtful donation to the team.
Show time! Checking circuitry!
"These students have learned how to think critically from all the science and math courses they have taken in high school. The electrical team checks the direction of the flow of electrons.
Girls on the team?
Elizabeth Heredia, 18, Engineering Physics, Chassis Team Member (Chassis Design and Analysis), Thousand Oaks CA
Nupur Dokras, 18, Mech E, Chassis Team Member, San Jose CA
Grace Lee, 18, EECS, Electrical Team member (helps with wiring, + logistics), Orange County CA
Ko-Chieh Chang, 18, Engineering Physics, Team Member (helping out with wiring, metal cutting, various tasks), Monterey Park CA
Elizabeth Heredia Chassis Team design and analysis
High School students had many questions for the engineering majors. One high school student said, " Boy, you must be smart!" Elizabeth obviously learned the equations in her textbooks then applied them to real engineering situations. That's what technology is: application. Elizabeth will tell you more about herself on our video we are putting together. It will be complete by July 15, 2009.
"You Got to Be Smart To Do That Stuff! "
April was Santa Cruz County's College Awareness Month. Local high school students in SantaCruz, California joined the general public to meet the solar car team of engineering students from UC Berkeley CalSol. The UC Berkeley CalSol Solar Car Team of students arrived in Santa Cruz to show off their solar powered race car.,. 'Goldrush'. Questions were flying all over the place from the moment they arrived. "What is that?" "Is that the solar car?" "Hey, that looks like it came from outer space or something." "Boy, you gotta be smart to do that stuff."
As we listened to the team's goals, their dreams, what it took to get this far, small children, a 5 3/4 year old, and 16 year olds gathered around the engineering students and watched as they solved problem after problem with the intricate circuitry in their solar car. Engineering Instructors from as far away as Hayward gathered around them making suggestions, tweeking this and that, looking at the system on the team's lap top.
Sponsorships for the CalSol Solar Car Video are now available for this event. $100.00 pairs your company or corporation with 10 young engineering students.
SC#0009CalSol Solar Car Event(sponsorship puts you on our video of this event) $100.00
SC#0011Formula Sun Solar Car Race June 1-5, 2009 (all proceeds go to the team)
Jump start for solar? Car race shows potential
Watch a road trip in a solar car.
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Carmel, California
Green Schools Initiative
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Science is a new science education site. It's new because we do somrthing that has not been done with science sites for children and parents up until now. We link children's hands-on science activities with the science being applied in green technology companies, science concerns of environmental groups, museums, zoos and aquariums. We feel this link will help prepare teachers, parents and children for the coming innovations in the rapidly expanding alternative energy sector of our economy as well as the numerous clean energy groups that are popping up each month. This market is enormous because it will impact every man, woman and child on this planet. While the Internet market is $100 billion or so, the green energy market is $6 trillion. That's $6000 billions! This means the green energy market is 60 times larger than the Internet market! This is why the green energy market is becoming known as the mother of all markets.
Your sponsorship gives you the opportunity to link your products to a knowledge base that is focused on educating children about energy; in particular, the flow of energy and how that flow has produced the products you are offering as well as how that flow is impacting the environment. This is what gives StarChild Science an edge in children's science web sites. We feel this approach is a must for green tech company web sites as well as environmental groups and science museums, zoos and aquariums. We are committed to this pairing where product and knowledge of how the flow of energy allows you to create that product or create that healthy environment come together and increases public awareness of the changes in our lives that we are all experiencing.
My Museum in Monterey, California just completed its new location this year. This unique museum provides hands- on interactive discovery and play for children so they can be able to identify what their needs are, and to communicate these needs to teachers, parents, and peers.
Saturday, June 6th from 10-1pm
Visit the museum on Saturday, June 6th and register for MY Museum's annual sunflower growing contest. Come by and plant your free sunflower seeds. Take it home, watch it grow and email us pictures to post on MY Museum's Facebook page. First 40 children signed up for June 6th's festivities will receive some fun gardening tools.
In additon to all of the gardening fun we will also have our very good friend Congressman Sam Farr at the museum at 10:45 a.m. to read some great stories. The Wheelie Mobilee will also be visiting the museum that day!
Special thanks to McShane's Nursery for sponsoring Kid's in the Garden and for Congressman Sam Farr for coming by for a special visit.
Free with the price of admission. Please pre-register 831.649.6444.
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Sponsorship The most popular state of matter these days is a gas, carbon dioxide gas. It is the most talked about gas. Ever. It is becoming heavily legislated, written about in many different kinds of newspapers, bulletins, TV shows, headlined in fashion magazines, and even showcased in science fairs. Our awareness of science being important for the health of our future on this planet is on the rise and we feel it will continue in that direction for many years to come.
OurGreen Sponsorship is available to a broad array of companies and institutions who are aware that good nutrition and alternative energy science are on the minds of every parent: Articles about wind, sun, waves, geothermal formations, organically grown food are now in every newspaper every day. Green energy sector companies, cookbooks using only organic foods are popping up in communities across this nation every day: solar companies, wind turbine companies, medical companies, clothing companies, food companies, organic food restaurants all need new places to show and tell of their expertise.
And, there are many companies that provide valuable hands-on science activities for children that bring them closer to nature appearing in towns and cities across our nation. Whole communities with a school house and a lab are being designed especially for children to explore animal habitats and plant environments. Zoos, children's museums, and aquariums are designing more and more elaborate habitats for children to visit and explore than they have ever designed before.
The Green Sponsorship not only covers the broadest area for advertising on our science education site, but it also provides our readers with a special opportunity to read what is happening in the news with your company. With your Green Sponsorship you are not alone on our pages. Instead, your company will stand out because your logo will be linked to a news article, a recipe, about you when appropriate.
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HELP was created by the late Mike Pippi. HELP now provides Farm to School nutrition programs, cooking demos, school gardens, physical activity classes, and produce tastings to local schools in the Monterey Bay Area.
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choose any chapter to sponsor. Email us with your choice,
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Sponsorship With a Chapter/Page Sponsorshipyou can pick and choose what energy your products best pair up with, or creative endeavor your company provides a child. Companies and establishments such as those listed below as just a few examples:
green tech company
energy company
health/nutrition company
restaurant
clothing company
book publishing company
wildlife center (zoo, museum)
aquatic habitat company (aquarium)
farmers market
natural beauty product company
nutrition/ health news company
environmental news company
elementary school
middle school
high school
medical center
environmental concern group
publishing company
When we pair any products of the above companies up with an appropriate hands-on science lesson, we feel the pubic will want to purchase the product or program more quickly because it will understand some of the science behind these products and programs. Take a look at the numerous innovations from different green tech companies and research labs on our site and notice that they are always coupled with a hands-on science lesson that educates a teacher or family about the energy in these innovations or nutrition products. We at StarChild Science include the latest news about light, magnetism and electricity, atoms, molecules, plants, animals, and humans. We also include information about nutrition and health and review many latest books for children and families. We cover it all to make it easier for you to understand the changes that can make your life healthier and more enegy efficient!
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Walnut Creek Farmers Market is open each Sunday from 8am until 1pm
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sponsorship Want a broad spectrum for your advertising dollar? Want your company to be associated with science education of young children? This sponsorship pairs you up with two very important sectors: children's science education, technology. Every day we at StarChild Science pick and choose what's in the tech news, science news, that is affecting our lives and dove-tail those energies with hands-on science experiences with children. We do this because we are very well aware America is far behind in science education. We feel that if we connect parents, teachers, science hands-on activities with companies selling the newest tech products, or creating sustainable industries, everybody will win. Parents will understand what new technologies are doing and children will get in touch with energies they never heard of before. In this way science education will have a better chance of reaching many more people than if we didn't make these connections. Science sites don't do this usually. This is unique in the science education arena.
Because of the energy crisis, our society is changing rapidly. Our plant science is undergoing a revolution all its own; just the fact that Obama has decided to plant an organic garden on the White House grounds reveals how we are changing our thinking about food. Our molecular science is turning heads with its nanotechnology products giving us smart fabrics, new coatings on airplanes as well as our infrastructure, our transportation. Our light science is giving us new sources of light, more energy efficient windows, houses, medical technologies. Our museums, our zoos and our aquariums are all making huge changes in the way they construct their exhibits by keeping their eye on how new technologies can provide a better glacier run, Gorilla Forest, plasma screens for children to view tsunamis racing across the ocean. And, our communications technology is rapidly becoming wireless due to the innovations in nanotechnology. We think this Site
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A dedicated soul... to healthy children
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This sponsorship appears on one of our most popular pages, Childhood Obesity page. We provide images that we feel will help our viewers understand the importance of the issue of childhood obesity. We add new current articles and recipes to this page daily, making it always a delight to visit. Here, Ann Cooper has recently been called one of the visionary chefs of the Bay Are by Michael Bauer of the San Francisco Chronicle. What makes Ann get up at wee hours of the morning and get down to the kitchen in a public school in Berkeley, California to make sure the lunch menu is healthy and tasty every day of the school year? She's checking the dumplings at 6 and the chicken goes in the oven no later than 8:00 AM. Salads, fresh vegetables are all monitored by Ann for hundreds of students every day. This lady is really a treasure.
Childhood
Obesity / Kiss Sponsorship - This sponsorship is available for companies and restaurants wishing to promote understanding of childhoood obesity and how to prevent it. Right now food games and exercise games are just beginning to be noticed by the public as fun ways to help prevent obesity with interactive educational activities and exercise. Kaiser Permanente recently introduced their food game Amazing Food Detective, and it is doing well.( refer to our Childhood Obesity page) Wii Fit, the new #1 hit in the United Kingdom is another obesity game, only it is an interactive exercise game put out by Nintendo. It is currently sold out on Amazon, revealing its popularity.
Anyone advertising on our Childhood Obesity or What's in a Kiss pages will be directly connected to companies that are addressing Childhood Obesity and nutrition in some manner.
Saturday, June 6th from 10-1pm
Visit the museum on Saturday, June 6th and register for MY Museum's annual sunflower growing contest. Come by and plant your free sunflower seeds. Take it home, watch it grow and email us pictures to post on MY Museum's Facebook page. First 40 children signed up for June 6th's festivities will receive some fun gardening tools.
In additon to all of the gardening fun we will also have our very good friend Congressman Sam Farr at the museum at 10:45 a.m. to read some great stories. The Wheelie Mobilee will also be visiting the museum that day!
Special thanks to McShane's Nursery for sponsoring Kid's in the Garden and for Congressman Sam Farr for coming by for a special visit.
Free with the price of admission. Please pre-register 831.649.6444.
Carmel Farmers Markets
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Bahama Billy's Island Steakhouse
Carmel, California
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Monterey Farmers Markets
Salinas Farmers Markets
"Those
who claim a thing is impossible
should not interrupt those who are doing it."
...old
Chinese proverb
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