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» Save the Date - X PRIZE to Host Second Radical Benefit for Humanity
03/09/10 from neXt PRIZE
You may have seen the teaser in CNET last week but we’re here to make the official announcement, that, yes, it’s confirmed!!!The X PRIZE is hosting a second “Radical Benefit for Humanity” on May 15, 2010 in San Francisco. Thanks to ...

» International Women's Day
03/08/10 from The Launch Pad
Today is International Women's Day -- a day set aside to honor the achievements of women, past and present, from around the globe. This got me thinking about all of the great women in the space community, so I posed the question on Twitter:...

» A Science and Technology Program That Is Transforming Our Culture and Changing Young People’s Minds About What They Want To Be When They Grow Up.
03/08/10 from The Launch Pad
In reviewing some of the greatest pioneering programs in STEM education, I thought it would be valuable to share a program that I believe to be one of the most inspiring out there. Many of you may be aware of this program and some of you ma...

» Weekend Roundup Part 2 - The Non-Twitter Side
03/07/10 from The Launch Pad
Stephen Hawking to Accept Cosmos Award in Cambridge, England - The Planetary Society - Note that the award presentation was a week ago (the linked press release is from February 24).Greetings From Space Up in Sunny San Diego! - The Planetar...

» OpenNASA Prize Ideas
03/07/10 from The Launch Pad
OpenNASA invites you to contribute ideas on making NASA more efficient, innovative, and open within the agency and to the outside world. You can discuss and vote on other contributors' ideas, too. Some of the ideas there feature prizes or c...

» Weekend Twitter Space Prize Roundup
03/07/10 from The Launch Pad
Here's a stack of space prize tweets I gathered over the last week or so, interspersed with a few comments.@InnoCentiveCEO: NEw $20K NASA Challenge: Coordination of Sensor Swarms for Extraterrestrial Research http://bit.ly/jHtV Very cool!Th...

» #FFD: A Picnik on the Moon
03/05/10 from The Launch Pad
This past week brought exciting news that Picnik (basically a simplified Photoshop on the web but approximately 1000 times easier to use) was just acquired by Google. And what sounds like more fun on this Friday than combining a Picnik and ...

» Now That's Edutainment!
03/04/10 from The Launch Pad
Even after almost a year and a half, I'm still getting used to living in a city dominated by the entertainment industry, rather than one equally devoted to politics. Wherever I live, I often find myself looking attending science and technol...

» What Can You Do To Inspire Girls to Be Involved in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Fields?
03/03/10 from The Launch Pad
A lot of youth today, particularly those from urban, economically disadvantaged communities do not have opportunities to investigate and experience the space industry world. Additionally, appealing to girls from these communities to explor...

» PRIZE Development - Where It All Begins...
03/02/10 from neXt PRIZE
When most people hear the X PRIZE moniker, it is usually in reference to a competition that has already been launched and/or won; the Ansari X PRIZE, the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE, the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics, the Google ...