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NYS Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Incentive Program – Call For Applicants!

Greetings, fellow astrophiles!

This announcement just in from Howie Hollander, president emeritus of TACNY. For those en route to a SUNY or CUNY school this fall, you’ve 6 weeks (until August 15th) to get your applications in order! The short snippet of the website is provided below, including an image from the email announcement.

More details about the Incentive Program can be found at www.hesc.ny.gov/STEM.

Does your nonprofit work with or know of recent high school graduates attending SUNY or CUNY this fall? 

Let them know about the STEM Incentive Program. There are still scholarships available for this fall. Applications are due by August 15th, 2014.

For more information and the application, visit www.hesc.ny.gov/STEM.

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Partners For Education & Business Awards Ceremony Program Cover – CNYO Caught In Action

In the CNYO Free Press Department, Howie Hollander (President Emeritus of TACNY), sent off the cover for the Partners For Education & Business Awards Ceremony held this past May 29th (and announced on the MACNY site) featuring a shot of our first donated telescope (thanks to Prof. Emeritus John McMahon) and a tactfully-placed New Moon Telescope logo.

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The PEB Program cover. Click for a larger view.

This image was taken from an April 10th STEM Career Day event hosted by National Grid (which we briefly covered in THIS POST from April 15th), where I had the pleasure of talking shop (and passing my little piece of Mars around) to nearly 200 students.

TACNY Junior Cafe Scientifique: “Engineer Your Life: Redux”

Saturday – June 21, 9:30-11:00am

Milton J Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology – Syracuse, NY


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Join us for our last talk of the season as TACNY President Emeritus Howard R. (Howie) Hollander will introduce and explore tips for preparing inside and outside of school for careers in STEM fields.

People interested in learning more about careers in STEM fields are invited to attend the free Junior Cafe presentation on Saturday, June 21, from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology (MOST) in Syracuse’s Armory Square. Walk-ins are welcome, but we ask that people RSVP by emailing jrcafe@tacny.org by June 18, 2014.

Presenters

2014june10_howie_tysonHowie Hollander (shown at right with some guy from last year) retired following 37 years in the aerospace and defense industry as a systems and software engineer/manager and program manager. He is currently enjoying an “encore career” as a program manager at SUNY-ESF. Howie earned a BE in electrical engineering from New York University, and an MS in engineering management (computer and information systems major) from Northeastern University. Howie’s CNY community activities include: President Emeritus, TACNY; Trustee, Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology; Vice President, Central NY Jazz Arts Foundation; and member of the LeMoyne College Information Systems Program Advisory Board, CNY STEM Hub, and Partners in Education and Business’ Technology Sector. Additionally, he serves on the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Information Technology and Web Sciences Industry Advisory Board. He is a graduate of Leadership Greater Syracuse and the FOCUS Citizens Academy. Howie enjoys skiing, and is an instructor of skiers with disabilities. He is married and has two adult children.

TACNY Junior Cafe Scientifique

TACNY Junior Cafe Scientifique, a program for middle-school students founded in 2005, features discussions about topics in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics in an informal atmosphere and seeks to encourage students to consider careers in these areas. Students must be accompanied by an adult and can explore the MOST at no cost after the event.

Technology Alliance of Central New York

Founded in 1903 as the Technology Club of Syracuse, the nonprofit Technology Alliance of Central New York’s mission is to facilitate community awareness, appreciation, and education of technology; and to collaborate with like-minded organizations across Central New York.

For more information about TACNY, visit www.tacny.org.

TACNY Junior Cafe Scientifique: “The Snowball Earth”

NOTE: This Jr. Cafe lecture coincides with the Climate Day festivities at the MOST. CNYO members will be in attendance in the afternoon running a solar observing session on the Creekwalk (and I (Damian) will be giving a lecture on the Sun-Earth Connection inside). If you show up for the Jr. Cafe lecture, your entrance to the MOST is free for the afternoon courtesy of TACNY (and thanks for mentioning this extra perk Howie Hollander)!

Saturday – April 19, 9:30-11:00am

Milton J Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology – Syracuse, NY


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Earth’s climate has changed tremendously over its history. Did you know that the Earth nearly froze solid 2.3 billion years ago and again 700 million years ago? We will discuss how this may have happened, how the Earth warmed after the snowball events and how life survived.

People interested in learning more about climatology are invited to attend the free Junior Cafe presentation on Saturday, April 19, from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology (MOST) in Syracuse’s Armory Square. Walk-ins are welcome, but we ask that people RSVP by emailing jrcafe@tacny.org by April 16, 2014.

Presenters

Christopher K. Junium, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences in the Department of Earth Sciences at Syracuse University. Chris studies how life and climate interact of through Earth’s history by analyzing the chemistry of ancient sediments. He is particularly interested in how the concentrations of oxygen have changed in the atmosphere and ocean over time, and how life responds to transitions in Earth’s climate state. His research spans the last 2.5 billion years of Earth’s history, and his research has taken him as far away as the Arctic Circle and as close as Green Lakes State Park. Recently, he spent two months as a scientist aboard the research vessel JOIDES Resolution to recover sediment cores from the Atlantic Ocean in an effort to better understand the causes of extremely warm climate 50 million years ago.

Chris received his B.S. in Geology from Dickinson College in 2000 and his Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University in Geosciences in 2010. From there he moved to Northwestern University under an Agouron Institute Geobiology Fellowship. He started at Syracuse University in January of 2012.

TACNY Junior Cafe Scientifique

TACNY Junior Cafe Scientifique, a program for middle-school students founded in 2005, features discussions about topics in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics in an informal atmosphere and seeks to encourage students to consider careers in these areas. Students must be accompanied by an adult and can explore the MOST at no cost after the event.

Technology Alliance of Central New York

Founded in 1903 as the Technology Club of Syracuse, the nonprofit Technology Alliance of Central New York’s mission is to facilitate community awareness, appreciation, and education of technology; and to collaborate with like-minded organizations across Central New York.

For more information about TACNY, visit www.tacny.org.

TACNY John Edson Sweet Lecture Series – The Historical Heritage Of Technology In Central NY And The Rise Of TACNY

Tuesday, December 10 2013, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Onondaga Community College, 101 Whitney Applied Technology Center



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Ed Bogucz and Howie Hollander will look back at the rich historical heritage of technology in Central New York and the history of the Technology Club of Syracuse, now doing business as the Technology Alliance of Central New York.

Dr. Ed Bogucz leads SyracuseCoE, New York State’s Center of Excellence for innovations in environmental and energy systems. SyracuseCoE is a collaborative enterprise that engages more than 200 firms and institutions to address global challenges in clean energy, healthy buildings, and sustainable communities. Prior to becoming SyracuseCoE’s Executive Director in 2003, Bogucz served more than eight years as dean of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University. Bogucz joined the Syracuse University faculty in 1985 as an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering. He earned bachelors and doctoral degrees from Lehigh University, and a master’s degree from Imperial College, University of London. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Near Westside Initiative.

Howie Hollander has been president of TACNY since 2005. Retired from Lockheed Martin since 2011, where he had various engineering and program management roles, he recently rejoined the workforce part-time at SUNY-ESF where he is a program manager in the Outreach department. He earned a BE in electrical engineering from NYU and an MS in engineering management from Northeastern. He is a board member of the Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology and vice president of the Central NY Jazz Arts Foundation, as well as an advisory board member of the LeMoyne College information systems program and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute information technology and web sciences program. Howie is a 2001 graduate of Leadership Greater Syracuse.

TACNY John Edson Sweet Lecture Series

Since 1916, the TACNY John Edson Sweet Lecture Series has annually presented a minimum of six lectures, free and open to the public. Former speakers have included Herbert Hoover, R. Buckminster Fuller, and Jacques Cousteau.

Technology Alliance of Central New York

Founded in 1903 as the Technology Club of Syracuse, the nonprofit Technology Alliance of Central New York’s mission is to facilitate community awareness, appreciation, and education of technology; and to collaborate with like-minded organizations across Central New York.

For more information about TACNY, visit www.tacny.org.