1st Lt. Jasmine Alexander may not have pinned on a star, but she definitely won the crown. Alexander, an Air Force intelligence officer stationed at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, was crowned “Miss Black USA” on July 10 in a pageant at the University of the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C., according to The Gazette (Colorado Springs). She also recently won Miss Black Colorado USA 2014. The Miss Black U.S.A. Pageant and Scholarship Foundation, Inc., awarded Alexander, 26, a $5,000 scholarship and a trip to Africa, the newspaper said, and Alexander will fulfill her pageant duties by promoting the Heart Truth campaign, which raises awareness about…
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Almost 70 percent of high school graduates are not ready for college-level science, according to the National Math + Science Initiative. With 54 percent of high school graduates not prepared for college-level math either, educators are calling this the “STEM crisis.” Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., recently put a new kind of emphasis on STEM — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — fields by giving kindergarteners to eighth graders the opportunity to participate in various experiments and activities. Their “STEM Rocks!” event brought 2,000 parents and children to the base to launch rockets, make slime, drive miniature underwater rovers and…
The sun’s polarity may be changing, but Air Force Space Command says it has these effects under control. According to the Colorado Springs Gazette, the a sun’s magnetic field is set to reverse — something that happens about once every 11 years. Tom Roeder reports: The change is frequently accompanied by severe solar storms, which can fry electrical circuits, overpower radio signals and turn satellites into space junk. Brig. Gen. David Buck, operations director for Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base said the military’s satellites can weather the storm. “It messes with the environment (in space) more than…
