Exciting news from Talcott Mountain Science Center & Academy! We're thrilled to introduce two new leaders on our team who will drive innovation and excellence in STEM and gifted education. Dr. Jay White joins us as the Director of Science and Innovation, bringing decades of experience in astrophysics and science education. Dr. Kenneth Wright, our new Dean of Talcott Mountain Academy, is a passionate advocate for gifted education with a focus on nurturing student potential. Learn more about how they’ll help shape the future of learning at TMSCA. https://lnkd.in/ef7Y6pCz
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Inspiring today's children to invent tomorrow.
About us
Our vision is a future where innovative education empowers lifelong learning. Our mission is inspiring today's children to invent tomorrow. Core Values: --WE SAY YES: With passion and possibility, we inspire the leaders of tomorrow. We are a aplce where high-interest, high-ability and gifted learners thrive. --WE ASK WHY: We encourage students to ask questions, to learn by doing, to be creative, to invent. We treat children as the experts of their own curiosity. --WE DO MORE: We engage students with a challenging curriculum, inspiring each individual to reach for the stars. We promote lifelong learning by exploring beyond the curriculum. Nurturing scientists, educators and mentors, partners with real-world practitioners, engage students in exploration of scientific research, the arts and more. --WE SEIZE OPPORTUNITY: We weave teachable moments, current events, emerging trends and technological innovation into meaningful student involvement. We value our role — and our students’ roles — as change and as catalysts for the invention of tomorrow. --WE CARE: We are a compassionate, accepting, supportive and diverse community that promotes lifelong bonds between its members. Our educators are role models passionate about what they teach. For information about our programs for students, families and educators, please visit tmsc.org.
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- Education Administration Programs
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- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Avon, Connecticut
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- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1967
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324 Montevideo Rd
Avon, Connecticut 06001, US
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With AI being applied to various and largely disconnected scientific endeavors, one has to wonder if a broader-viewing AI scientist might see connections.
Could science be fully automated? A team of machine-learning researchers has now tried #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning https://lnkd.in/gu8e6YVm
Researchers built an ‘AI Scientist’ — what can it do?
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No WIMPS yet, but work continues to press down the upper mass limit.
New record in search for #darkmatter ✨ Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment, the world's most sensitive dark matter detector, narrow down the possibilities for a leading dark matter candidate called Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) Read the article in full: https://lnkd.in/eHfFsRih
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Marvelous! Fundamental to student creativity and learning at Talcott Mountain Academy is the role of kinesthetic learning---observing, writing, sketching, calculating, even doodling.
In class 2.737 (Mechatronics), the most powerful teaching tools include pen and paper: “Students have to be able to work out things on a piece of paper, and make sketches, and write down key calculations in order to be creative,” David Trumper says. https://lnkd.in/e8FAesqr
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So glad to see another Talcott alum making a difference in such an exciting field!
Nature Neuroscience publishes a special issue on glia! Our August issue just went live, and it's a special issue on glia. Glia is a blanket term that refers to several very different cell-types: astrocytes, microglia and oligodendrocytes (as well as their antecedents, oligodendrocyte precursor cells). Research into glia has become one of the most exciting and dynamic subfields of neuroscience, yet there is still much to be discovered about the diverse forms and functions of these cells. As the editors of Nature Neuroscience, we have been exhilarated by the pace of discoveries in this area and are delighted to showcase some of this transformative work in our pages. This month’s issue represents a celebration of glia from start to finish. We begin by highlighting some exciting papers about glia that have been published in other journals in recent weeks. We share conversations with established leaders and emerging voices in the field, Lucas Cheadle, Sonia Mayoral, Beth Stevens and Andrea Volterra. A Review from Lindsay Osso and Ethan Hughes challenges the dogmatic view of myelin as static and illuminates what is known about its renewal and remodeling. We also present primary research papers that reflect the breadth of the glial research field. Tewari et al. describe how astrocytic regulation of synapses depends on perineuronal nets, and O’Shea et al. characterize border-forming wound-repair astrocytes that emerge following spinal cord injury or stroke. Foerster et al. demonstrate a role for oligodendrocyte heterogeneity — specifically cells of dorsal versus ventral origin — in brain development, and we learn about roles for oligodendrocyte lineage cells in diseases that have mostly been thought of as involving neurons: neurofibromatosis type 1 and prion-induced neurodegeneration. Three papers examine interactions between microglia and other glial cell types: Kedia, Ji and colleagues reveal how CD8+ T cells trigger microglia to damage myelin in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease; Chen, Luan, Liu and colleagues describe how brain injury causes astrocytic ATP release (an ‘inflare’) that in turn signals to microglia; and Huang, Wang and colleagues examine how plexin-B1 expressed in periplaque reactive astrocytes in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease restricts access of microglia to amyloid plaques. Brown et al. even describe some circuit maturation processes that do not require microglia. And, rest assured, we have some compelling papers for our neuron-loving readers, too.
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In 2017, Yale astrophysicist Priya Natarajan spoke about Mapping the Heavens during one of TMSCA's On the Shoulders of Giants lecture series. This year, she's recognized on TIME's list of the 100 Most Influential People. Congratulations, Priya! If you're not familiar with her theories and her work, Priya was featured on NPR's All Things Considered this week. Definitely worth a listen: https://lnkd.in/epJsE9WF #time100 #talcottscience #astronomy
TIME's list of the 100 Most Influential People in the world is out. I'm honored, delighted, and grateful to be a part of this incredible group #TIME100 @TIME https://lnkd.in/dk-upTe8
Priyamvada Natarajan: The 100 Most Influential People of 2024
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Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is an ESA spacecraft that will finally arrive in the Jovian system in 2031. There it will observe closely Jupiter's atmosphere and execute orbits that take the craft repeatedly near the gas giant's large, ocean-covered (under icy mantles!) satellites Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto.
⏳Timelapse! 🎥Sit back and enjoy ESA #Juice's lunar-Earth flyby in all its glory.👇
Timelapse of Juice’s lunar-Earth flyby
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Sometimes it's difficult to see the forest when surrounded by the trees, but the use of AI-driven models may help scientists in various disciplines do that.
How could large language models, like ChatGPT, help solve the world’s biggest problems? Thanks to a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), UChicago scholars hope to create first-of-their-kind AI-driven models to predict scientific discoveries and technological advancements. Learn more: http://ms.spr.ly/6047lfTHz.
NSF awards $20 million to build AI models that predict scientific discoveries and technological advancements
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Equivalent behaviors in response to external threats hark back to a shared origin of them among a group of related species.
In the face of threats from other groups, humans, chimpanzees, and a selection of other species get closer to their own.
Bonobo evidence suggests ancient origin of the 'common enemy effect'
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How terrific to have visualizations of what scientists have imagined for decades! Transfer and sharing of electrons make chemical bonds, and while all electrons in a molecules' constituent atoms are essential, it's the valence electrons that largely provide the molecule's chemical characteristics. Great work by the Nagoya University researchers.
The distribution of outermost shell electrons, known as valence electrons, of organic molecules was experimentally observed for the first time by a team led by Nagoya University in Japan.
First visualization of valence electrons reveals fundamental nature of chemical bonding
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