by Ritu Prasad & Katie Watkins | Aug 31, 2017 | Environment, Featured, Science + Technology
It was June 29, and Dexter Rawlings had finished his first day of on-the-job training, installing solar panels on the rooftops of Washington. After hours under the unforgiving summer sun, he arrived home, exhausted. But an email was waiting for him with an encouraging...
by Ritu Prasad & Katie Watkins | Aug 21, 2017 | Business & Tech
Washington — Origami, the traditional Japanese art of paper folding, seems like an unconventional way to find a love for engineering. But for Islamabad high schooler Ahmed Waheed, 15, the technical precision of folding intricate paper models sparked an interest...
by Ritu Prasad & Katie Watkins | Aug 21, 2017 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Washington’s hot, humid summer has certainly caused those in the nation’s capital to sweat it out, but it’s just what the city’s three corpse flowers — which bloom with a violent stench — needed. The largest of the three super-sized, super-stinky blooms...
by Ritu Prasad & Katie Watkins | Aug 2, 2017 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Twenty-one-year-old Mikaela Biester has been climbing trees since she was six years old. Unlike most people who abandon the tree-tops for careers on the ground, Biester aspires to be a professional tree climber. With a father who owns a tree care company,...
by Ritu Prasad & Katie Watkins | Jul 19, 2017 | Featured, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Growing up in Alexandria, Egypt, Yomna Ahmed Rageb remembers a childhood full of Legos. So when her parents suggested she get involved with robotics, it felt natural to trade her plastic bricks for metal gears. But when she first joined a robotics team as...
