by Bart Leahy | Sep 13, 2014 | Atlanta Dream, Atlanta Hawks, ECAST, Events, Girl Scouts, NASA Asteroid Initiative, San Francisco 49ers, The Science Cheerleaders, WNBA
The Girl Scouts of America hosts their annual Super STEM Expo at the North Atlanta Trade Center today. The Science Cheerleaders will join organizers from the Atlanta Science Festival to engage scouts and their leaders in citizen science, including NASA’s...
by Bart Leahy | Sep 13, 2014 | Economics, General - Engineering, General - Science, Health and Medicine, Industrial Engineering, San Francisco 49ers, STEM Field, The Science Cheerleaders
Zenobia is a former San Francisco 49ers cheerleader with an economics degree from Stanford University! You have a degree in economics from Stanford with minors in industrial engineering and psychology. What got you interested in those subjects? I have to say, in every...
by Bart Leahy | Sep 11, 2014 | AFL, Biology, Chemistry, Dallas Vigilantes, ECAST, Events, General - Science, NASA Asteroid Initiative, Pop Warner, Pop Warner, STEM Field, The Science Cheerleaders
Jessica, a chemist and former Dallas Vigilantes cheerleader, joined youth cheerleaders, their coaches, and parents, to lead a citizen science project to help get people involved in NASA’s Asteroid Initiative! Special thanks to the North Texas Pop Warner Region...
by Bart Leahy | Sep 10, 2014 | Baltimore Blast, Citizen Science, ECAST, Events, NASA Asteroid Initiative, Science Policy, St. Louis University, The Science Cheerleaders, Washington Redskins, Washington Wizards
Today, meet the Science Cheerleaders at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum and learn from them about NASA’s Asteroid Initiative in celebration of “Women in Aviation and Space Heritage Family Days” 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. ...
by Darlene Cavalier | Aug 28, 2014 | Advanced Degrees, Atlanta Hawks, Biology, Collegiate Science Cheerleaders, Doctorate, DragonCon, Events, General - Science, Georgia Tech University, Health and Medicine, NBA, STEM Field, The Science Cheerleaders
Why science? Both of my parents are involved in science – my father is a chiropractor and my mother is a registered nurse (and is also going to school to become a chiropractor!). With both parents in healthcare, I have always been interested in anatomy and physiology....
by Bart Leahy | Aug 28, 2014 | DragonCon, Events
When the annual Dragon*Con parade rolls through Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday, August 30, four Science Cheerleaders will be cheering for science and leading parade spectators in citizen science activities! They’ll be marching with other citizen...
by Darlene Cavalier | Aug 16, 2014 | In the News
“MuseHack is about finding new ways to use, improve, and apply your creativity, geekery, inspiration and passions. It’s about hacking your Muse the same way people hack code, hardware, recipes, business techniques, productivity, and even their bodies and...
by Bart Leahy | Aug 14, 2014 | General - Science, Health and Medicine, Indianapolis Colts, Master's, STEM Field, The Science Cheerleaders
Brandi has a Master’s Degree and she cheered for the Indianapolis Colts. Hi, Brandi! What turned you on to science? What turned me on to science was my interest in discovering a cure for cancer. I had a grandfather, who was a vivid portrait painter, creator,...
by Bart Leahy | Aug 7, 2014 | Advanced Degrees, Collegiate Science Cheerleaders, Ecology, General - Science, Marine Science/Oceanography, Master's, STEM Field, University of Maryland, University of Miami
Today we get to hear from William (a.k.a. “Rock”), a male cheerleader who is pursuing a master’s degree in marine biology at the University of Maryland. What turned you on to science and when? I remember as a child that I wanted to be a dolphin...
by Bart Leahy | Aug 7, 2014 | Aeronautics and Propulsion, Collegiate Science Cheerleaders, General - Engineering, Physics, STEM Field, University of Wyoming
What got you into engineering, Carey? Throughout astrophysics in college I always loved the challenges of orbital dynamics. I constantly wanted to know the different possibilities of getting different masses to different orbits in space, and the power required...
