By Jeremy Babendure, SciTech Institute Executive Director As the Arizona SciTech Festival celebrates its 15th year, it’s remarkable to reflect on how far we’ve come — and where we’re headed. When the first festival launched in 2012, we truly didn’t know what to expect. Would anyone come? Thankfully, Arizona answered with enthusiasm. More than 200…
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–What’s the next big thing in science and technology? The answers can be found at the Arizona STEM and Innovation Summit presented by the SciTech Institute, an Arizona nonprofit focused on cultivating an ecosystem of conscious science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) communities through awareness, connections and empowerment, at the Scottsdale Center for the…
” About 3,000 people in Tempe, Ariz. tapped into Wi-Fi beams from the ViaSat-2 satellite during Tempe’s March 20 Geeks Night Out event. Viasat, which has a campus in Tempe, set up and donated several hours of its Community Wi-Fi service during the 8th annual gathering, during which the city and more than 70 organizations invited…
” At the Chandler Innovation Fair signature event, our partners at Focus Astronomy snapped this photograph of the ViaSat-2 satellite, in geostationary orbit. That white dot, in the picture below, is the world’s most powerful commercial telecommunications satellite, having a throughput of 260 Gigabit/s and delivering internet to North America, the Caribbean, and transatlantic routes….
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