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Solar Storms: Exploring the Sun's Explosive Outbursts
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Learn about solar storms and how they impact Earth.
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Introduction to Green Chemistry
STEM Explained
Green chemistry is a field that looks at the sustainability of products and processes designed by people.
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Mauro Marongiu
Career Profiles
Flight Test Instrumentation Engineer
Evaline Warmels
Career Profiles
Mechatronic Engineer
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How Vehicles Pollute the Air
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Learn how vehicles affect air quality, including their contribution to smog.
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Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles
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Learn about vehicles that use hydrogen for fuel.
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Up, Up and Away: Careers in Flight
Lessons
Students will learn about the wide variety of jobs related to the aviation industry.
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Testing Aircraft Wings
Lessons
Students will explore how wing design affects lift using a testing device similar to a wind tunnel.
Evaline Warmels (Video)
Career Profiles
Mechatronical Engineer
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Green Energy
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An overview of environmentally-friendly ways to generate electricity and power
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Making Waves with Radar
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Learn about how the radar works, the history and its many real life applications.
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Testing for Aviation Safety
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Learn about some of the ways that aircraft and spacecraft are tested.
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Strange Shapes in the Sky: Stealth and Flying Wings
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Learn about how and why engineers designed and built some very unique aircraft.
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A History of How Humans Learned to Fly
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Learn how aviation pioneers from the world learned how to make humans fly!
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How Planes Fly
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Learn about what gets planes up in the air, what keeps them up there, and what brings them down again.