The Digits

The greatest unknown rockband in the galaxy!

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12 Year Old Girl Launches Hello Kitty into the Stratosphere

12 year old Lauren Rojas built a space balloon and launched her Hello Kitty doll into the Stratosphere. She also attached an altimeter, thermometer, cameras and a satellite tracker in order to record all the data. Her experiment is titled: The effects of Altitude on air pressure and temperature. Lauren’s aircraft reached a height of 29 km, not officially space (100km) but enough to provide one hell of a view. Watch the video of her feat below.

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very cool! We love Hello Kitty and women in STEM!

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The Digits is proud to be a nominee for the 2014 IAWTV Awards in Las Vegas! We were nominated both this year and last for Best Educational Show, and now we are also nominated for Best Supplemental Content for our award-winning app and Skype in the Classroom lessons!

The International Academy of Web Television recognizes significant contributions each year to the rapidly growing and changing world of web programming. We are excited to be among the list of nominees for what we consider one of the world's best kids web series!

Support The Digits today and become one of our fans - have fun and get smarter too!

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Meet Caroline Herschel - The First Woman to Discover a Comet

This really is the tale of a modern day Cinderella - only much better!!. Caroline arrived in England from Germany at 22 with no qualifications being just a house maid. In a few short years she had learnt a new language had a professional singing career, learnt mathematics and become a world renowned astronomer. She discovered 3 new nebulae and become the first woman to discover a comet by the time she was 36.  On her 96th birthday she was awarded the King of Prussia’s Gold Medal for Science for her lifetime achievements.

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Moscow Subway Ticket Machine Accepts 30 Squats as payment…YouTube VIDEO

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Dope. NYC needs this

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It would be faster than Ventra.

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What a great way to promote exercise AND public transit!

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After acquiring a small child, I also acquired Duplo blocks. One day I made a bar chart out of them showing how many of each color and size that we have. Because, you know, charts.

-Miriam Mueller 

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Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day to recognize women in technology. Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer, serves as inspiration for generations of women in technology.  In recognition of Ada Lovelace Day, here are just a few women who inspire us:

Hedy Lamarr, the Austrian-born actress was instrumental in developing “frequency hopped spread spectrum” technology. This made radio-guided torpedoes harder for enemies to detect or jam. It also served as the basis for Wi-Fi and wireless phone technologies that we rely on today.

Grace Hopper, who started her military career with World War II-era Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), developed validation software for the programming language COBOL. COBOL was a result of Hopper’s belief that programs can be written in a language that was close to English rather than in machine code or languages close to machine code. Hopper served as the director of the Navy Programming Languages Group in the Navy’s Office of Information Systems Planning. In 1994, the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology established the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference “to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront.”

Honora Smith, Ada Lovelace’s great-great-great niece, works on practical outworking of math in decision making. She applies technology to plan sustainable community health schemes in rural areas of developing countries.

Barbara Liskov was the first women to earn a Ph.D. in computer science. Her Ph.D. thesis was a computer program to play chess end games. Liskov was instrumental in the development of computer languages that allowed data abstraction, which is fundamental to many programs that we all use today.

Galyn Susman, the visual arts director at Pixar, got her start at Apple Computer, where she showed the power of computer-based animation with the animated short “Pencil Test” which was created on the Macintosh II. More recently, she worked on the Pixar films Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and Ratatouille.

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Maple trees demonstrate the relationship between ambient air temps and fall color transitions.

-Patrick 

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“Meet, for example, Regina Gisput. At 16, she is as ambitious as any Minnesota girl her age, studying a heavy load of physics, chemistry and math in hopes of becoming a doctor.

Few American girls, though, have faced obstacles as formidable as she is fighting. When Regina was 13 years old, her father expected her to marry as was the custom in her rural Maasai village. Her family needed the bride-price a groom would pay either in cash or in livestock.

Regina knew all too well her future in that married life. She had seen that future through the lives of girls and women in her village: She would work at hard labor for her husband, likely an older man with other wives. She would bear children before her own child body was fully formed and ready to deliver them. She would own very little; and if her husband died before her, his land, cattle and other possessions would pass to his family.

Regina made a bold escape from that destiny.

At her primary school, she had taken a qualification exam for secondary school. She passed. And the head of the primary school told her on the last school day that she could leave immediately for the MaaSAE school in Monduli without going home.

Regina took the offer. And she arrived at the boarding school, like many of her fellow students, with nothing but the clothes she had worn that day.

It was effectively a one-way decision for Regina. She can’t go back to her village.

Keep reading Pulitzer Center grantee Sharon Schmickle’s report about girls’ fight for education in Tanzania here. Images by Sharon Schmickle. Tanzania, 2013.

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An amazing story

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C'mon, Rodney, that's a little obtuse of you. 

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That is pretty wicked. 

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Kids these days are technology natives. So how do we, as teachers, adapt to that? Digits' curriculum advisor Tabitha weighs in on her own experiences teaching using technology in the classroom.

http://watchthedigits.com/teacher-blog-our-kids-love-technology/

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Don't give up--just make it right!

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Music is a great way to educate kids about topics that don't stick using traditional teaching methods. Our curriculum advisor, Tabitha, talks about our new album Homework Hotline and how easy it can be for kids to learn math with Digits songs!

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Just a little math humor from the ever intelligent Ray Ray! 

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Want to make fun, gooshy, slimy goo that doesn't stick? Check out our instructions to make your own DIY oobleck! 

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Who says you don't use math in real life??

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Ever wonder what being a production designer is like? Meet Kat, who created new props and characters for The Digits Season 2! 

http://watchthedigits.com/meet-a-production-designer/