Students from Engineering Design Challenge Team 33, “Three Musketeers,” won the Special Award for Creativity at the 2017 State STEM Competition in San Antonio, Texas. The six team members represented six different TAME Chapters: Amarillo, Dallas, East Texas, Gulf Coast (Houston), Lubbock, and Wichita Falls. In alphabetical order: Andrea Ruedas, Markalen Watson, Joseph Nagera, Ashley Evans, […]
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2017 T-Shirt Design Contest Winners
Winners Announced for Boeing “Behind the Next Big Thing” T-Shirt Design Contest (Austin, TX) The Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering is pleased to announce the winner of the Boeing “Behind the Next Big Thing” T Shirt Design Contest for the 32nd Annual TAME State STEM Competition. TAME students across Texas submitted a record number […]
Volunteer at the 2017 State STEM Competition
How many engineers does it take to launch a career in aeronautics? Sometimes it just takes one. Volunteer at the 2017 State STEM Competition and help Texas students take off! The 2017 State STEM Competition is right around the corner, and we’re calling all San Antonio-area engineers and other STEM professionals to join in. Competition […]
Bring a Boeing-sponsored Family STEM Event to your community! Applications due 3/21.
“It was science, but it was AWESOME.” That’s what one elementary student said after leaving the Trailblazer, the STEM-museum-on-wheels that’s a big part of the Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering (TAME)’s mission to connect Texas students to careers in STEM. The truth is, a lot of kids aren’t quite as excited about science as […]
Super Bowl Science Brings 12,000 Visitors to Trailblazer
Football aside, there was lots to do at Super Bowl Live, a 10-day event held at Discovery Green in downtown Houston: the event offered family-friendly exhibits, performances, food, and a virtual reality trip to Mars. Even in this context, the Trailblazer, a mobile science museum, got a lot of attention. Thanks to support from Raytheon, […]
You boost activity in our temporal cortex.
You boost activity in our right anterior superior temporal cortex. You really do. And that’s not all. Neurologically speaking, we’re only just starting to understand how gratitude affects the brain, but studies show strong correlations between feelings of gratitude and benefits to both interpersonal relationships and mental health. Expressing gratitude helps us each to strengthen […]