Podcasts about centennial challenge

After 3D-printing a habitat for Mars, AI Space Factory, Incorporated, has become a leader in terrestrial applications.

(Jan 22, 2024) North Country Congresswoman Elise Stefanik joined former President Donald Trump at campaign events in New Hampshire over the weekend in the leadup to the presidential primaries; 2024 marks the 100th anniversary of New York's state park system. To celebrate, the state is encouraging New Yorkers to explore state parks through the ‘Centennial Challenge;' Paul Smiths College is one of just a handful in the US that teach students how to train work horses. They also offer sleigh rides in the wintertime which are starting up this weekend!

NASA plans to return to the Moon using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before.

One of NASA's new Centennial Challenges is looking to the public to help power our return to the Moon.

This is Stephen Schmidt from the Gazette digital news desk and I'm here with your update Tuesday, January 5. Tuesday's forecast looks to be similar to Monday's weather. According to the National Weather Service, there could be another round of patchy fog before 9 a.m. in the Cedar Rapids area, so be careful on your morning commute. After this it will be a high of 29 degrees with sunny skies and a calm wind. It will become increasingly cloudy Tuesday night into Wednesday, and cloudy it is predicted to remain for several days after. Iowa reported 42 more deaths from COVID-19 on Monday, bringing the state's death toll to 3,992 so far. Hospitalizations and new cases have continued to drop, which continues a good news trend in the state. One thing to watch out for is a high positivity rate, still, with approximately 44 percent of those tested for the novel coronavirus coming out positive on Monday. The boom in cases and hospitalizations that followed late last year coincided with Iowa having one of the highest positivity rates in the nation in October and November. Police announced Monday that an 18-year-old woman who was shot on Dec. 22 in southwest Cedar Rapids was declared “legally deceased” four days later — on Dec. 26. The Cedar Rapids Police Department identified the woman as Marisa Doolin of Cedar Rapids. Doolin was found at 3:25 p.m. Dec. 22 in a second-floor apartment at 2110 Westdale Dr. SW, police said. Investigators said she had sustained a life-threatening gunshot wound. No arrests have been made, police said, and an investigation is ongoing. The police department also released the identity of the first recorded homicide in Cedar Rapids in 2021. Police identified Sunday's fatal shooting victim who was declared dead at Mercy Medical Center as Jayson Lee Jones, 21, of Cedar Rapids. According to police, Jones was shot at a residence at 818 11th Ave. SE. Jones was taken by private vehicle to the hospital at about 2:16 a.m., where he was pronounced dead a short time later. Police have not released details as to what happened leading up to the shooting, but an investigation is underway. To celebrate the 2020 centennial of the Iowa state park system, the Department of Natural Resources planted at least 100,000 trees last year , nearly triple the number planted in a typical year. The milestone planting commemorated not only the 100th anniversary of the state park system, but also the centennial of the National Association of State Foresters. Members of the association participated in the 2020 Centennial Challenge to plant millions of trees across the United States. The native Iowa trees were supplied by the https://nursery.iowadnr.gov/ (State Forest Nursery) and planted in Iowa's four state forests, dozens of wildlife management areas and 23 of its state parks, according to Emma Hanigan, urban forestry coordinator. In addition to DNR funds, the plantings were aided by a grant from the Arbor Day Foundation. Hanigan estimated the grant covered the internal production costs of about 55,200 seedlings. This briefing is sponsored in part by Corridor Careers.  Are you looking for a job? https://www.corridorcareers.com/ (CorridorCareers.com) is a resource to local job seekers where they can get job tips, sign up for local job alerts, build a resume and more. Check it out at https://www.corridorcareers.com/ (CorridorCareers.com).

In keeping with the spirit of the Wright Brothers and other American innovators, the Centennial Challenge prizes are offered to independent inventors.

Habitats, robots, vascular tissue and communication. NASA is looking to creative thinkers to help fill some technology gaps.

NASA’s Vascularized Tissue Centennial Challenge is looking at a critical need in medicine.

The benefits of creating vascularized tissue are enormous.

One of NASA’s current Centennial Challenges looks at a critical need in medicine as teams try to create vascularized tissue in the lab.

The Vascular Tissue Challenge, one of NASA’s Centennial Challenge competitions, is looking at ways to effectively mitigate the toll space travel takes on the human body.

The Vascular Tissue Challenge, one of NASA’s Centennial Challenge competitions, is looking at ways to effectively mitigate the toll space travel takes on the human body.

As NASA’s Centennial Challenges brings a 5-year sample return robot challenge to a close this year, they open a brand new $1 million prize competition designed to push the boundaries of robotic dexterity.

How can the human body be kept in working order during long periods in space? NASA has opened a Centennial Challenge to provide some answers.

What do you get when you add robotics and autonomy to rocketry? You get NASA's latest Centennial Challenge. Find which teams were awarded the ellusive Mars Ascent Vehicle Prize.

What do you get when you add robotics and autonomy to rocketry? You get NASA's latest Centennial Challenge. Find which teams were awarded the ellusive Mars Ascent Vehicle Prize.

Safe flying drones compete for a half million-dollar prize in one of NASA's Centennial Challenges

The Sample Return Robot Challenge is back for 2013!

Can you build a robot that can fetch your slippers from the living room? How about from behind a rock on Mars?!?!

Calling all rocket enthusiasts ... your hobby just might launch new business opportunities ... literally!!

Secretary Kempthorne: "this is a giant leap for the National Park Service" You can hear it in his voice, can't you? Dirk Kempthorne is excited. The Secretary of the Interior announced today a list of 201 projects that are eligible for funding in the first year of the Centennial Initiative. The program could add as much as $2 Billion in new programs and projects for the parks, and $1 Billion for park operations over 10 years. In his remarks that follow, you can hear Mr. Kempthorne crow a little bit at the early success of the program, especially as it relates to the provision of the Centennial Challenge which depends on non-federal dollars for success. Critics of that aspect of the program, including us at the National Parks Traveler, had wondered if fundraising $100 million a year would be possible. The Secretary was quite happy to inform us today that the goal has been exceeded, and that he has commitments for $301 Million for projects in fiscal years 08 and 09. Aware of those who caution against bowing to private demands, Kempthorne notes that donors recognize this as philanthropy, not branding. These programs he say, herald a new era of revilalization for the parks.

Nearly one year ago, on the 90th anniversary of the National Park Service that Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne, while visiting Yellowstone National Park, introduced a program which would bring upwards of $3 Billion dollars in new funds for our parks. The ambitious program, called the Centennial Challenge, is geared to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Park Service in 2016. Over the last year, the National Park Service has conducted listening sessions around the country, and talked with their parks to figure out the best programs on which to spend this money. We are expected to hear which programs have been selected at the end of this month, I'm guessing it will be on the 25th, on the 91st anniversary of the Park Service, and one year after the program was announced. Congress has not yet approved the Centennial Initiative yet. Yesterday, the National Park Service, represented by director Mary Bomar, and other groups met in subcommittee hearings for both the House and the Senate to answer questions regarding the program. The audio from the Hill is of the Senate hearing. The complete hearing was 90 minutes long. I have selected only a select few questions from Senators to Director Bomar for this program. We hear first from the chairman of the Senate Subcomittee on National Parks, Senator Daniel Akaka, Democrat from Hawaii. We will also hear from Senator Richard Burr, Republican from North Carolina, and also Senator John Barrasso, the newly appointed Republican Senator from Wyoming.