Date: 
Saturday, January 22, 2022 - 8:00am to 5:00pm
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James Benitez sees his future, and it is in teaching. This student teacher is in his last semester at ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, and he is currently doing his student teaching in a 4th–6th combo classroom at Whittier Elementary in Mesa. 

Benitez is an Arizona native who went... Read more

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For the first time, the Arizona SciTech Festival will kick things off at the world-famous Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction in Scottsdale on Jan. 22 & 23. 

As Barrett-Jackson celebrates its golden anniversary, one of its concourses will be dedicated to the Pennzoil STEMFest... Read more

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 In August a new system was put to work to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The new technology—System 002, nickname Jenny—collected over 20,000 pounds of plastic and trash. The trash is then hauled aboard the ship and it is sorted with much of the plastic becoming recycled.

Even if Jenny is successful at cleaning up, there is still much more garbage that needs to be removed. With 10 Jennys about half of the trash in the ocean could be removed in about five years. The Ocean Project hopes to have the ocean cleared of plastic and trash by the year 2040.

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The Community is invited to join the City of Mesa and the Mesa MLK Committee as we celebrate the Dream of Martin Luther King Jr. on January 17, 2022. Community groups, organizations, businesses, churches, dance groups, bands, and regional cities will stroll in Downtown Mesa during this community event.

For more information and to participate as a parade entry, please contact diversity.info@mesaaz.gov or visit the MLK Jr.  Parade page

Date: 
Monday, January 17, 2022 - 11:00am to 4:00pm
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That’s right; the Phoenix Zoo’s annual 5K race is back and better than ever in 2022 because all registered participants get to see ZooLights after the race!

But we didn’t stop there…

Included with registration* is a commemorative shirt, daytime admission to the Zoo, admission to ZooLights, raffle ticket(s), kettle corn & cocoa, and a “glow” necklace/bracelet.

https://www.phoenixzoo.org/events/zoo-move-groove/

Date: 
Sunday, January 16, 2022 - 5:30pm to 10:30pm
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NASA seeks young engineers to help design a new robot concept for an excavation mission on the Moon. The Lunabotics Junior Contest is open to K-12 students in U.S. public and private schools, as well as home-schoolers.

The competition, which is a collaboration between NASA and Future Engineers, asks students to design a robot that digs and moves lunar soil, called regolith, from an area of the lunar South Pole to a holding container near where Artemis astronauts may explore in the future.

Date: 
Tuesday, January 25, 2022 - 9:00pm
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The 56th Fighter Wing command team has decided to cancel the upcoming Luke Days airshow event, previously scheduled for March 19-20, 2022. 

Due to logistical and economic strain, as well as COVID-19 challenges, base leadership deemed it in the best interest of all parties to cancel the 2022 show and looks forward to overcoming these issues for future events.    

https://www.luke.af.mil/Luke-Days-2022/

Date: 
Saturday, March 19, 2022 - 10:00am
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