The talent portion of the Miss America pageant typically consists of contestants singing, dancing, or playing a musical instrument. All that changed when the most recent Miss America, Camille Schrier, carried out a STEM demonstration during her talent portion. The STEM Class Podcast host Anthony Arno talks with Schrier about her lifelong passion for science…
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Biosphere 2 was originally meant to demonstrate the viability of a closed ecological system to support and maintain human life in outer space. Its first mission was a two year experiment sealing a crew of eight humans from planet earth. What went wrong? John’s earliest memory of a teacher in school Academic background Is there…
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Shortly after my interview with Dr. Carter, she passed at 98 years old. Whether or not you’re a STEM enthusiast, I invite you to hear the remarkable story of a passionate woman who served her country well in the early days of WW II by working in a Birmingham B-29 aircraft factory. She would later…
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At the age of 15 as a Navajo Native American, Peter MacDonald enlisted in the US Marines simply because he admired the official uniform. Shortly after boot camp, he was recruited into a secret military program that would rely on a language that has no written form for what would later be known as a…
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At 97 years old, Dr. Carter tells what it was like leaving Teachers College to work in a Birmingham B-29 Factory
Her talent portion of the pageant featured a STEM type demonstration that drew national attention
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