2nd Puerto Rican Microbiology Mixer-ASM Meeting at Denver, CO

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Mission: Make them fall in love with technology

Submitted on 9 April 2013 - 11:52am

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Over 110 youth from the Puerto Rico public school system attended the 4th Tecno Boyz Day, organized by Microsoft and the Department of Education (DE) and held at the Microsoft Operations facilities in Humacao.

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They come together through shared interest in meteorology

Submitted on 9 April 2013 - 11:43am

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For the sixth consecutive year, the student chapter of the Meteorological Society of Puerto Rico (SMPR) of the University of Puerto Rico's Mayagüez Campus (UPR-M), conducted the Weather Fest, an event that brought together middle and high school students with the mission of creating an interest in the discipline that explores the atmosphere.

Zuleimary Rodriguez Velez, vice president and lead organizer of the group, explained that the initiative, which was coordinated by students assigned to the UPR-M Meteorology curriculum, receives 600 to 700 students annually.

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Triumphant at Mathcounts

Submitted on 9 April 2013 - 11:13am

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Josefina Barceló Jiménez / jbarcelo@elnuevodia.com

Approximately 150 students from 18 public and private middle schools participated Saturday, March 23 in the state Mathcounts competition.

Engineer Gabriel Echandi, Mathcounts coordinator in Puerto Rico, said that this competition is organized by the National Society of Professional Engineers and is cosponsored by the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, which hosted the activity.

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Videos de la Fauna de Puerto Rico

Submitted by Samuel L Díaz Muñoz on 8 April 2013 - 9:32am

¿Has visto un coquí nacer? ¿Has visto un guabá en su cueva? ¿Sabías que en Puerto Rico hay aguilas pescadoras?

Esto y mucho más en un tremendo recurso que nos llega de la Universidad del Turabo, la Videoteca de la fauna de Puerto Rico.

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Bosque Modelo (Model Forest) Ecological Corridor a reality

Submitted on 3 April 2013 - 11:25am

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Yalixa Rivera Cruz / yrivera@elnuevodia.com

After 13 years working to protect the environment Casa Pueblo is seeing a dream come true: a cooperative community agreement to create the Bosque Modelo (Model Forest) Regional Ecological Corridor.