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Best STEM Summer Camps in Houston 2024

The Maker Mom

Developing communication and technical skills is key at Apogee STEM, along with lots of social time with friends. Houston Museum of Natural Science The Houston Museum of Natural Science receives children ages 6-12 for week-long science camps. Each day has a different focus on creation and exploration.

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How we read: the neuroscience behind literacy

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Literacy skills have a profound impact on a person’s life,” says Dr Jacqueline Cummine, a professor at the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine – Communication Science and Disorders at the University of Alberta. They won first place for Outstanding Communication! (©

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How can intelligent systems revolutionise healthcare?

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Dr Narges Armanfard, from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University and Mila Quebec AI Institute in Montreal, has established iSMART Lab to develop new healthcare technologies. Intelligent systems can also facilitate better communication and collaboration between healthcare teams.

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

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Dr Joanna Leng , from the University of Leeds in the UK, is a research software engineer who designs and develops the software that allows scientific imaging devices to be used to their full potential. TALK LIKE A RESEARCH SOFTWARE ENGINEER. One area of research computing that is in high demand is research software engineering.

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How can we make STEM subjects more engaging for students?

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This usually means a university student who is in training to become a teacher Self-learning — an approach to learning where students teach themselves by following instructions and figuring out answers on their own STEM — subjects related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics When did you last make something in school?

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On the frontline of the biomedical revolution

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These technologies were developed by scientists and then translated by engineers to be used within biomedicine.” Looking forward Jin’s team is currently investigating the fine but critical details of cellular science. “My “We have photonics and nanoscale photonics, and we are even starting to have quantum photonics,” he says.

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

I should say at the outset that I’m going to focus on the big picture of what’s going on—and while I’ll mention some engineering details, I won’t get deeply into them. And the essence of what I’ll say applies just as well to other current “large language models” [LLMs] as to ChatGPT.)

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