News tagged with contest
Pa. symphony seeks soloist via YouTube contest
(AP) -- Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra officials insist it's not "American Idol" meets Mozart.
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Texas Tech, U of Utah win Sandia microdevice competition
The world's smallest chess board — about the diameter of four human hairs — and a pea-sized microbarbershop were winners in this year's design contest for, respectively, novel and educational microelectromechanical ...
Jun 15, 2010 |
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Sun CEO's pay package cut by a third in '09
(AP) -- The value of Sun Microsystems Inc. CEO Jonathan Schwartz's latest pay package dropped 37 percent from last year as the company lost more than $2 billion and was in such dire financial shape that it ...
Oct 29, 2009 |
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It Takes a Solar Village
(PhysOrg.com) -- Rain didn't ruin the 2009 Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C. University teams successfully operated 20 net-zero, grid-connected solar power homes for a week on the National Mall. Some used ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Netflix to run second film-suggestion tech contest
(AP) -- You might call it "Son of the Netflix Prize."
Aug 11, 2009 |
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'Curiosity': NASA Selects Student's Entry as New Mars Rover Name
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, scheduled for launch in 2011, has a new name, thanks to a sixth-grade student from Kansas. Twelve-year-old Clara Ma from the Sunflower Elementary school ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 27, 2009 |
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Oops: Colbert wins NASA space station name contest
(AP) -- NASA's online contest to name a new room at the international space station went awry. Comedian Stephen Colbert won.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 23, 2009 |
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NanoTube Contest Brings Out the Hollywood Side of Nano Things
(PhysOrg.com) -- How would you describe "nano" to someone who had never heard of it before? In a video contest held by the American Chemical Society (ACS), scientists-turned-filmmakers are explaining what ...
Feb 24, 2009 |
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