TACNY

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TACNY Sweet Lecture – Nuclear Energy: Will It Survive? – March 13, 5:30 p.m.

Greetings fellow astrophiles! A TACNY (Technology Alliance of CNY, of which the SAS is a member organization) Sweet Lecture (not to be directly confused with a sweet TACNY Lecture) is happening on the OCC campus on Tuesday, March 13. Information from the TACNY website for “Nuclear Energy: Will It Survive?” is provided below. When: Tuesday, March 13, 2012, at 5:30 pm Where: Whitney Applied Technology Center Room 101 at Onondaga Community College Stan Wilczek Jr., PE, author and assistant professor at Keuka College, will present Nuclear Energy: Will It Survive?, a talk about the future of nuclear energy in the […]

New York Center for Astrobiology – 2012 Astrobiology Short Story Contest

Greetings (younger) fellow astrophiles! I am pleased to announce that the New York Center for Astrobiology is sponsoring a writing contest for 9th – 12th graders. A brief overview of the contest is below, with the complete list of rules, story proposals, and lots of extraterrestrial parameters included in the linked PDF you can find at: www.origins.rpi.edu/astrobiologycontestfinalversion.pdf NOTE: I urge you to have wikipedia open as you read the two plots. Some good explanations and a whole lot of potential inspiration lies within! This contest is sponsored by the New York Center for Astrobiology, a member of NASA’s Astrobiology Institute […]

TACNY Sweet Lecture – Forensic Science: Real-Life CSI – Tuesday, February 7

Greetings fellow astrophiles! A TACNY (Technology Alliance of CNY, of which the SAS is a member organization) Sweet Lecture (not to be directly confused with a sweet TACNY Lecture) is happening on the OCC campus this coming Tuesday (February 7). Information from the TACNY website for “Forensic Science: Real-Life CSI” is provided below. When: Tuesday, February 7, 2012, at 5:30 pm Where: Whitney Applied Technology Center Room 101 at Onondaga Community College Anita Zannin, owner and forensic consultant at AZ Forensic Associates, will present Forensic Science: Real-Life CSI, a talk about forensic science and bloodstain pattern analysis, as part of […]

TACNY Sweet Lecture – Effective Speaking And How To Avoid Death By PowerPoint – Tuesday, November 8

Greetings fellow astrophiles! A TACNY (Technology Alliance of CNY, of which the SAS is a member organization) Sweet Lecture (not to be directly confused with a sweet TACNY Lecture) is happening on the OCC campus this coming Tuesday (November 8). Information from the TACNY website for “Effective Speaking and How to Avoid Death by PowerPoint” is provided below. Direct Link: www.tacny.org/home/ctl/viewdetail/mid/1903/itemid/728/d/20111108.aspx “Effective Speaking and How to Avoid Death by PowerPoint” Tuesday, November 8, 2011 – 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Mawhinney Hall, Room 345 at Onondaga Community College Speaker: Diana Wolgemuth, a training consultant with Dale Carnegie in Syracuse, is […]