Spring 2007 Newsletter

Can't Live Without 'Em

The subject for one of Sci-Tech Discovery Center ’s preview exhibits, engineering gets a special tribute this week.  February 18-24, 2007 has been named National Engineering Week.  To find out more about the week dedicated to increasing public awareness and appreciation of engineers and their work, visit www.eweek.org.  Click on the K-12 tab for links to activities and information for students.  

Sci-Tech Discovery Center' s Board of Directors features some members who chose engineering for exciting and creative careers.  Mark Reid, President and CEO of IDEA Construction, says that his desire to build and create led him to study industrial engineering in college.  In addition to leading a construction business Mark serves on Texas Tech University’s Industrial Engineering  Advisory Board.   

Dave Woollums, Vice President of Engineering for Emerson Process Management, was fascinated as a child about how things worked. His hobby of taking things apart and putting them back together led him to a career of what he calls practical science. To all aspiring engineers Dave says, “There’s nothing better than creating things that never before existed that can benefit people on a daily basis." 

 
Mind Stretching Fun® Awards
To acknowledge the creativity and enjoyment that inspires and accompanies the work of area science fair teams, two Sci-Tech Discovery Center Mind-Stretching Fun® Awards debut this year.  One team in each of the Junior and Senior Team Physical Science groupings will be named Sci-Tech winners at the Regional Science Fair on March 24, 2007 at Fair Park.  Each team will receive a cash award.
 
Pi in the Face
March 14th is Pi Day (3.14), and again this year Sci-Tech Discovery Center will provide activity cards to 6th grade math programs in Plano, Richardson , Frisco, Allen, and McKinney.

Sci-Tech Discovery Center, Inc. welcomes five new board members: 
  • Roger Buss – Tatum LLC;
  • Craig Poole – GENBAND, Inc.;
  • Maura Schreier-Fleming - Best@Selling;
  • Jeff Wacker – EDS; and
  • Dave Woollums, Emerson Process Management.
Sci-Tech’s sixteen-member Board of Directors continues to work toward the goal of a permanent facility in our area to respond to the community's demand for an educational and cultural destination focusing on math, science and technology.

 
Sci-Tech Mission

To provide a dynamic, interactive experience that inspires people of all ages and backgrounds to embrace discovery and innovation through the exploration of math, science and technology.