sa chamber

Wednesday, April 24, 13

What do Mt. Rushmore,

Aerobics, the Human Genome

and the Science City

have in common?


GUTZON BORGLUM

August 10, 1927Wednesday, April 24, 13

BORGLUM AT BRACKENRIDGE

STUDIO


Father of AerobicsKenneth H. Cooper, M.D., M.P.H.


Dr. Susan Naylor& Dawn K Garcia

“Initial sequencing and analysis of the human

genome”

Dr. Susan Naylor Feb. 12, 2001,

Journal Nature


SwRI

TIBR

Founder Thomas Baker Slick Jr. - businessman, inventor, oilman, rancher, engineer, philanthropist, peacemaker, adventurer, and visionary.

Tom Slick Professorship of World Peace at the University of Texas

Institute for Inventive

Research, 1949, Reader’s Digest,

1000 a week, Circus Tent, 114

Viable

Mind Science

Foundation


What do you think of when I say San Antonio?


Alamo & Frontier Legends


Missions San JoseSan Juan

EspadaConcepcion



Do you think Science & Tech, or ed innovation?


Wright Model B on the ground, in front of a hangar, at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, 1910.


Captain Benjamin D. Foulois seated at the controls of a Wright Military biplane; a radio transmitter is tied into the passenger seat; 1911.


Star Film Ranch

1910

Gaston Méliès

“Voyage a la lune”


THE IMMORTAL ALAMO, 1911. Francis Ford, at right with white sombrero. Gaston Méliès, San Antonio, TX


Math ENG

Tech

Innovation Technology Processes & Design

How do we cultivate innovation and innovators?

ARTS

Science


Jon Hinojosa, Artistic | Executive Director


Of the two million U.S. arts jobs requiring significant technology proficiency:

• 10% architects• 11% artists, art directors and animators• 7% producers and directors and • 7% photographers

The products of these disciplines represent 6.4% of the U.S. economy and over $126 billion annually in revenue from foreign trade. Read more at Arts in the Workforce. http://www.nea.gov/research/ArtistsInWorkforce.pdf


1912Night skywriterLoop-the LoopSnap roll on top of the loopFlying school in worldU.S. AirmailJapan and ChinaFly alone at nightOnly to enlist WWITrained WWI fighter pilotsAirport in San Antonio


In 1925, he graduated from the Army's flight-training school at Brooks and Kelly fields. In 1927 he flew the Spirit of ST Louis from New York to France. http://www.charleslindbergh.com/history/index.asp


GUTZON BORGLUM

August 10, 1927Wednesday, April 24, 13

School of Aviation Medicine 1926


1927


“Air City”Harold Clark -Largest construction project undertaken by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers since the Panama Canal.

1930Wednesday, April 24, 13

Durrell “Dee” Howard, The Dee Howard Company

Hall of Fame

Insert Images

Dee Howard


Math ENG

Tech



STEM

Science


Since 1979, 32,768 middle school and high school studentshave successfully completed at least one summer component of TexPREP. Of these students, 81% have been members of minority groups and 53% have been women. Of the 16,617 who are of college age 5,711 responded to the 2011 annual survey.

- 99.99% are high school graduates.- 90% of the college attendees are college graduates.- 74% of the senior college graduates are members of underrepresented minority groups.- 44% of the senior college graduates are engineering, mathematics, science or computer science majors.


1947

“Science City”Wednesday, April 24, 13

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The United States Air Force Security Service


Cyber Patriothighschoolcdc.com

Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Students-hoping-to-ridethe-cybersecurity-wave-1043235.php#ixzz1IBe4Gqls Wednesday, April 24, 13

There are between 3.8 and 5.8 million people in the US employed in NIT.

Computer and mathematical occupations are projected to add 785,700 new jobs from

2008 to 2018.

As a group, these jobs are forecast to grow more than twice as fast as the average for

all occupations in the economy. http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-nitrd-report-2010.pdf


The meaning of STEM is culturally

bound.


1948, Col. Harry Armstrong,

“Aeromedical Problems of

Space Travel”


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Health CTE

Arts



Character

Academic


General Bernard Schriever

Feb. 19, 1957

Inaugural Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Astronautics Symposium in San Diego.

Commander of Western Development Division

Headquarters

Charles Wilson


Alamo Heights


US First-EISDAndrew SchuetzeSan Antonio,TX

High SchoolWednesday, April 24, 13

spaceTEAMSSan Antonio,TX

Middle SchoolWednesday, April 24, 13

Elementary

spaceTEAMSSan Antonio,TX

Robot competition plus career and

academic exploration and history of science

and technology.


Pemmaraju Rao, SFBRCancer Research: immuno-diagnostic area of steroid hormones

1958 Wednesday, April 24, 13

John F. Kennedy,

Nov 21, 1963

Man-In-Space

Program


Lt. Colonel Edward

White

June 3, 1965


Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee and Ed White January 26, 1967


http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Earth-View-From-The-Moon.jpg

July 20, 1969


Hall of Fame1961 - 2002

William A. Mallow SwRI


1972 PC Architecture

1977 LAN ARCNET


William Barker, Data Race

@

1969


John Vrzalik, Kinetic Concepts


John Taboada, Ph.D.Taboada Research Instruments, Inc.


Julio C. Palmaz, M.D., UTHSC Richard Schatz, M.D., Brooks

1988

Palmaz-Schatz Stent®Wednesday, April 24, 13

Robert Rodriguez Edgar Rice Burroughs' science fiction classic 'Princess of Mars' for Paramount Pictures.


WheelGroup Network Security

Cisco Extends Leadership in End-To End Network Security Products SAN JOSE, Calif. February 18, 1998 Cisco Systems, Inc. today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held WheelGroup Corporation of San Antonio, Texas. Under the terms of the acquisition, between 1.8 and 2.0 million shares of Cisco common stock will be exchanged for the outstanding shares and options of WheelGroup. Based upon Ciscos February 18 closing price of $65.50 the stock exchanged would have a value of approximately $124 million.

1995 - 1998


Wheel Group

Culture of Innovation

Secure Logix

Secure Info

Novus Edge


The Cassini spacecraft, launched in Oct. 1997 for an

11-year mission to the Saturn system .


First VLSI implementation

of the IEEE 802.11b wireless

LAN protocol known as Wi-Fi

(Michael Fischer, Intersil)

Very large-scale integration allowing over 100,000 transistors on a chip


Richard V. Butler, Ph.D.Mary E. Stefl, Ph.D.Trinity University

SFBR is home to the world's largest computer cluster devoted to statistical genetic analysis.

Home of military medicine.

2005


Dr. Rebecca Rico Hess


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Miguel Yacaman, who heads UTSA's physics and astronomy department, shows off images taken by the world's most powerful electron microscope, nicknamed 'Helenita' after King Ranch heiress Helen Groves, whose gift was used to buy the device. / SA

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/education/article/UTSA-boasts-world-class-gift-794295.php




Avatar, Star Wars: Episode 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Lord of the Rings, The Passion of the Christ, Spider-Man 2, The Matrix, Pirates of the Caribbean, Black Hawk Down, Star Trek Nemesis, AI, Jimmy Neutron, Jurassic Park III, Spy Kids, Charlie’s Angels, The Gladiator, Red Planet, Titanic.

Tim Jenison


Since going public on August 8, 2008, the company’s stock has soared from $12.50 a share to more than $56 a share today. The company has a market capitalization of $6.5 billion.

http://www.siliconhillsnews.com/2012/03/23/rackspace-and-graham-westons-impact-on-silicon-hills/




http://www.thenewnewinternet.com/wp-content/uploads/24th-air-force.jpg

2009 – Activation of 24th Air Force Home of Air Force Cyber


The meaning of STEM is culturally

bound.


“San Antonio is a city

of the future.”

Fujio Cho, President and CEO of Toyota Motor Corporation


SFBR


CACINorthrop

Grumman

Lockheed Martin

General Electric

Pratt & Whitney

Chromalloy

ProxtronicsVeridian

MitreTelcordia

OnBoard SoftSecure INFO

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KartaSecure LOGIX

TitanAdtech

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Brain Power
