Tag: Science

MSJC celebrates groundbreaking of new $39M STEM building and opening of Animatronic Makerspace

SAN JACINTO, Calif., — More than 200 people gathered together yesterday to help Mt. San Jacinto College (MSJC) celebrate the groundbreaking of a new nearly $40 million Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) building and debut of its new Animatronic Makerspace at its San Jacinto Campus. LEADING THE RCNS HEADLINES: La Quinta woman arrested after 85-year-old relative’s murder 9 people […]

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HUSD “Superstar Teacher” recognized for her innovative and successful work with students

HEMET, Calif. — Rancho Viejo Middle School’s eighth-grade social science instructor Samia Muhareb was recently featured as a “Superstar Teacher” in SMORE, an educational blog celebrating classroom success using the Document-Based Question (DBQ) learning model.  The DBQ model provides a method of teaching evidence-based, argument writing so students can learn the skills of primary source document analysis, gain historical thinking […]

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BES STEM Fair wows students, parents, teachers alike

BURNEY — More than 115 students, parents, and teachers, came together for Burney Elementary’s second annual family STEM Fair, last night, Tuesday, March 27. The STEM Fair featured numerous interactive and hands-on STEM-based displays and experiments; including the opportunity for attendees to see how crystals are formed, to see how hot air balloons work, and how to create enough energy […]

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Guest Writer Spotlight: Iqbal Pittalwala: In Search of Dark Matter

By Iqbal Pittalwala RIVERSIDE, Calif. — An international team of scientists that includes University of California, Riverside, physicist Hai-Bo Yu has imposed conditions on how dark matter may interact with ordinary matter — constraints that can help identify the elusive dark matter particle and detect it on Earth. Dark matter — nonluminous material in space — is understood to constitute […]

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