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With our diverse talents, we like to think we can work up a training program for just about anything. If not, we'll find somebody for you! Give us a try!
You might wish to learn the names of some flowers and Butterflies by a visit to the Missing Octave Garden Gala
We have also mentored students in the Science Olympiad, who took 1st in the State of Tennessee!
Our favorite educational references:
Smithsonian Institute
www.si.edu for the Nation's museum.
National Geographic Society
www.nationalgeographic.com
Monterey Bay Aquarium www.mbayaq.org
including live underwater camera feeds.
San Francisco's www.exploratorium.com
has online interactive exhibits and a cool museum shop.
National Institute of
Standards and Technology, www.nist.gov
including official time.
NASA www.nasa.gov and for some out-of-this-world
photographs www.hubblesite.org
Library of Congress www.loc.gov
US Patent Office
www.uspto.gov including searchable patent
database
Thomas Registry www.thomasregistry.com
, a list of US manufacturers and products
For some cutting edge technology R&D and challenges, see
www.yet2.com
Dictionaries of Technology Terms, www.techdictionary.com and http://whatis.techtarget.com
For your local weather www.weather.com
Of course you can always search in Google www.google.com or Ask Jeeves at www.ask.com if you can't find it here!
TEACHING NEW DRIVERS
ABOUT SKIDS:
A great demonstration of how skids work is to lay a soup can on a tabletop and
slide it diagonally. It will slow down until it reaches a certain speed,
then abruptly change direction as it goes from sliding to rolling. A skid
is like this in reverse -- an abrupt change from rolling forward to sliding
sideways. You should steer into the skid to try to get back rolling
friction, because until you do, you have no control. Very dramatic
demonstration to show new drivers why they shouldn't take traction for granted
on curves -- when you lose it, it's completely gone!