WATERVILLE, Maine, May 15 -- Colby College issued the following news on May 14, 2024: By Abigail Curtis A buzz of productivity filled a classroom in the F.W. Olin Science Center on an early spring Friday afternoon as teams of students dug into a large, real-world data set on a quest to find useful insights and figure out how to best share those insights with others. And they had to race the clock to finish by the end of the weekend. The 40 or so students were participating in the American   more

ORONO, Maine, May 14 (TNSres) -- The University of Maine issued the following news release: Maine's first small research satellite, designed to engage middle and high school students in STEM, is expected to launch into orbit within the next couple of months. Firefly Aerospace, a company based in Cedar Rapids, Texas, integrated the nearly 1 foot tall satellite, known as MESAT1, into a rocket to be launched from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in Southern California. The integration was conduct  more