April 28, 2012 - New York Times mentions Festival

April 27, 2012 - DCist - Editors Pick - Event listing of the Festival

April 27, 2012 - Wall Street Journal - Life and Culture "Ideas Calendar"


April 27, 2012 - Roll Call - Gordon, Bock: STEM Education Is Key to a Competitive America

April 26, 2012 - Washingtonpost.com - Special Supplement!


April 26, 2012 - Washingtonpost Express.com - Interview with Mayim Bialik about the Festival

April 25, 2012 - Washingtonpost.com

April 24, 2012 - Washingtonpost.com - USA Science & Engineering Festival (Saturday and Sunday) The festival has something for everyone, including an appearance by Bill Nye the Science the Guy, more than 3,000 interactive exhibits, stage shows and a book fair.

April 23, 2012 - Washingtonpost.com - you can climb into a giant display that tries to figure out why dinosaurs became extinct. Also not to be missed: TV’s “MythBusters” Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman explaining their special kind of science.

April 23, 2012 - Washingtonpost.com - Tornado hunter featured! This weekend, you can meet Wurman and other meteorologists when he will be at the second USA Science and Engineering Festival, which will have hundreds of cool exhibits and thousands of hands-on activities.


April 16, 2012 - USA Today features article: U.S. Science and Engineering Festival ready for D.C.

April 10, 2012 - Scientific American: What is: USA Science & Engineering Festival

April 4, 2012 - M.Y. Voice Features Festival with Mythbusters and Mayim Bialik Interviews

April 2012 - Southern Living Magazine

Notable Press About the Nifty Fifty Program:

April 25, 2012 - Ellicott City Patch - Zebrafish: Teaching Students about Science Students at Our Lady of Perpetual Help learn what it's like to be a scientist, and how zebrafish help us understand our brains.

April 23, 2012 - Chantilly Patch - Princeton Physicist Visits Chantilly High, Dr. Andrew Zwicker

April 17, 2012 - huffingtonpost.com - ... it was a lesson about roller coaster physics that captured the attention of a group of fourth graders from Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary in southeast Washington, D.C.

April 12, 2012 - Gazette.net Nifty Fifty Speaker Zachary Lemnios  Assistant Defense Secretary spoke at Oxon Hill High School on Wednesday morning. Lemnios, an electrical engineer who was appointed in 2009 to his post in the U.S. Department of Defense by President Obama. “The idea is to think about where you could make a difference.”


April 12 - WTOP - Bob Madigan - WTOP's Man About Town covers Dr. April Croxton's visit to Rockville High

April 11, 2012 - Gazette.net Nifty Fifty (times 2) because of the more than 100 speakers who spoke at Washington, D.C., area schools, brought Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, to Walter Johnson High School.

April 11, 2012 - Leesburg Today - Professor Insists 'Math Is Cool': Padmanabhan Seshaiyer, a professor of mathematical sciences at George Mason University

April 10, 2012 - ScientificAmerican.com The 2nd USA Science & Engineering Festival Expo hosted by Lockheed Martin on April 28-29, 2012. The Festival (hosts a) world-class array of technology, innovators, science celebrities and Nobel Laureates as well as amazing hands-on exhibits and stage shows.

April 5, 2012 - Gazette.net

April 4, 2012 - Washington Examinier - THE 3-MINUTE INTERVIEW: Diane Bunce

March 28, 2012 - Lori Garver Deputy Administrator at NASA spoke at a Nifty Fifty Event today

March 28, 2012 - Arlington Connection Newspaper: Dr. Dana Perkins speaks at Yorktown HS as part of Nifty Fifty

March 25, 2012 - Dr. Collin's Nifty Fifty Program at Bladensburg High School - linked to Gazette.net

March 23, 2012 - Dr. Quinones-Hinojosa addressed students from the Vivien T. Thomas Medical Arts Academy as part of the USA Science & Engineering Festival’s Nifty Fifty Program.

March 20, 2012 - Paul T. Anastas visited the Capitol Heights School as part of the USA Science and Engineering Festival’s Nifty Fifty program that brings 100 scientists and engineers to Washington, D.C.

March 20, 2012 - Washington Post - Paul Anastas, head scientist in the Office of Research and Development at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, talked about the future of the planet during part of USA Science & Engineering Festival’s Nifty Fifty Program

March 9, 2012 - Don Thomas Nifty Fifty Program: Taking Science to the Schools Video Coverage
Fox 17
Chicago Tribune

March 9, 2012  - Nifty Fifty Program - Former NASA Astronaut’s New Mission Is To Launch Careers In Science & Technology

March 8, 2012 - CBS Baltimore - Story on Don Thomas, Former NASA Astronaut speaking at a city school in South Baltimore as part of the Nifty Fifty Program

Great Press About the Festival in General:

April 30, 2012 - Forbes Emerging Tech Report April 2012

April 14, 2012 - The USA Science & Engineering Festival in the 100th Annual Cherry Blossom Festival

February 29, 2012
Forbes / Wolf Emerging Tech Report - Interview with 2 Nobel Laureates involved in the Festival