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    Central Minnesota gets science on wheels

    By Sharon Schmickle | Published Thu, Sep 24 2009 7:15 am

    Science Express
    Courtesy of Minnesota State Colleges and UniversitiesScience Express, St. Cloud State University's mobile science lab.


    St. Cloud State University rolled out a mobile science lab this week, driving hands-on lessons in science, technology, engineering and math to K-12 students in Central Minnesota.

    The first stop is at Sauk Rapids Rice Middle School.

    The lab, called Science Express, is intended to enhance the curriculum of schools that lack the equipment and facilities to adequately cover such topics as Lyme disease, bacterial tactics for remediating oil spills, DNA profiling and laser optics.

    In addition to the laboratory, Science Express features a fully integrated audio/video system with VHS/DVD, wireless network, satellite Internet and two 42-inch plasma television screens.

    Medtronic donated the 53-foot-long semi trailer, and it was retrofitted with the help of Innovative Laboratory Systems of Rockford, 3M and Everything Signs of Holdingford. Funding for the project came from the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Bioscience Initiative, the Morgan Family Foundation of Yellow Springs, Ohio, and other sources.

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    Scientific Agenda reports on important and interesting developments from the world of science in Minnesota and elsewhere. Coverage includes reports from MinnPost journalist Sharon Schmickle, who has won many awards for her science journalism. She has also taken part in several science fellowships, including the Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowship at Cambridge University in England, the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Latin American fellowship sponsored by the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing Inc. in New York.




    Scientific Agenda also features material from other sources, including Inside Science News Service, a Washington, D.C.-based news service, which is supported by the not-for-profit American Institute of Physics, a publisher of scientific journals.

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