Science & Technology
YWCA Greater Charleston Launches Six New Tech Clubs for Girls
In November 2016, YWCA Greater Charleston launched Charleston’s first Girls Who Code club for middle school girls. With the success of that pilot program and three more girls’ coding clubs behind it, the nonprofit is today launching six new Y Girls Code clubs for girls of all ages across the Charleston area. Each club is…
Read More12th Annual Francis Marion National Forest Cleanup: Litter reduces with consistent cleanup
The 12th Annual Francis Marion National Forest Cleanup, held on Saturday, February 2, saw record numbers of volunteers and co-hosts who came to pick up litter from one of the state’s most popular outdoor recreational areas. PalmettoPride and the USDA Forest Service, along with long time partners Keep Berkeley Beautiful and Berkeley County Sheriff’s Department, coordinated…
Read MoreNational Society of Black Engineers Charleston to host “A Walk For Education”
The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Charleston Professionals will host A Walk For Education on Saturday, February 23, 2019 in downtown Charleston. The event will be held at St. Julian Devine Community Center from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mayor John Tecklenburg will be attending the event and is scheduled to speak between 12:15…
Read MoreAfrican-American Inductees in the National Inventors Hall of Fame
Since the founding of the National Inventors Hall of Fame®(NIHF), nearly 600 visionary men and women, who conceived, patented and advanced the greatest technological achievements of our nation, have been inducted into the Hall of Fame. Historical innovators like Joseph Lee and Charles Drew paved the way beyond science and technology by becoming trailblazers for…
Read MoreFirst African-American chemistry Ph.D. honored with landmark during Black History Month
St. Elmo Brady, the first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry, is being honored by the American Chemical Society (ACS) with a National Historic Chemical Landmark. The designation will be celebrated on Feb. 5 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which awarded Brady his doctorate in 1916. The event coincides with February’s Black…
Read More/dev/color Welcomes Largest Cohort of Black Software Engineers to Date
/dev/color, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower Black software engineers to help one another grow into industry leaders, inducted the largest cohort into its flagship A* Program in January 2019. Entering its fourth year, /dev/color welcomes 370+ Black software engineers from across each of the organization’s four chapters, located in New York, Seattle, Atlanta, and the San Francisco Bay…
Read MoreWest Point to hold STEM Workshop for youth at SC State
South Carolina State University will be the venue of a one-day Leadership Ethics and Diversity in STEM Workshop with hands-on, small and large group STEM activities presented by West Point staff members, STEM professionals and West Point cadets, to be held February 8 from 8 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. SC State biological and physical sciences…
Read MoreSecuring the Opportunities of American Energy
By Elia Quintana, Director of Stakeholder Relations, American Petroleum Institute 15 or 20 years ago, there were very few people who could have imagined that the U.S. would again lead the world in the production of natural gas and oil. And even fewer who would have thought that we could reduce carbon emissions faster than…
Read MoreCharleston native Joseph Lee inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
Nineteen innovation pioneers were announced this month as the 2019 Class of the National Inventors Hall of Fame® (NIHF) on the main stage at CES®. These innovators, whose inventions range from the UNIX operating system to fluoride toothpaste, will be celebrated as the newest Class of Inductees during the NIHF Induction Ceremony. In partnership with the United States Patent…
Read MorePalmettoPride Releases 2018 Litter Control Report Numbers
PalmettoPride announced this week the 2018 Litter Control Enforcement Grant ticket numbers. From the 24 enforcement agencies that received a 2017-2018 Enforcement Grant, reports indicate that a total of $341,306.73 in fines were collected from 898 successfully prosecuted cases. Many of the reporting agencies utilize both state statues and local ordinances when addressing littering and illegal…
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