Today was the science fair awards ceremony. The kids did great. All but 2 won a category award and 2 won grand prizes (middle school and high school)

And, we were finally honored with a school award, first time EVER, which is bitchin.
And, I got a teacher award! First one for me and I am honored that I have such a great group of students to work ( Read more... )

Hey all -
Bring your kids to do fun science with us at the Sunnyvale Art&Wine Festival June 6th and 7th - we will be in the kids area on Sunnyvale Ave near Macys. Look for the Mobile Lab and our fun scientists in rainbow lab coats!

I will be there working on Sunday, hope to see you!

SSW sent 12 to the fair - we have 9 winners
we worked with 44 students in Gilroy - we have 21 winners

53% winners, not bad
woohoo!

ROCKED ( Read more... )

Kids need you ( Read more... )

Just got home from seeing Brian Malow at Rooster T Feathers, a sold out show of "smart comedy". Room full of geeks and me, hubby, and boss were laughing the loudest through most of the show. Good times!

Yesterday, my company was awarded the innovative nonprofit of the year from the San Jose Business Journal:
http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2008/09/22/focus7.html?b=1222056000%5E1702668

WOOHOO!

This Saturday (Aug 9th) I will be at the Take Flight for Kids event at Reed-Hillview Airport from 9am to ~5pm. We will have the BioMobile Lab there and will be doing some experiments with the kids all day long. This is a really cool event for kids with disabilities to get a private flight and then do some cool stuff all day ( Read more... )

Today was the first day of the high school Biotech camp at Chabot College. It was a good day ( Read more... )

The article about us at Maker Faire was published. See the part at the bottom about DNA extraction. I'm famous again :)
http://www.edutopia.org/maker-faire-DIY-projects