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National Night Out-Oct 4th Emancipation Park
National Night Out
October 4 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Reconnect with your community and celebrate 3rd Ward at a family-friendly celebration with music, games, food, and giveaways!
NATIONAL NIGHT OUT @ EMANCIPATION PARK
TUESDAY OCT. 4, 2022 | 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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Budget Analyst Stennis Space Center Job Opening
The Stennis Space Center (SSC), office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO), is seeking highly qualified candidate to serve as Budget Analyst (GS-0560-7 fpl/13). The incumbent is responsible for the planning, programming, budgeting, and execution (PPBE) process supporting various projects at the Center. The incumbent also provides budget guidance and advisory services to the customers within the division and branch levels of the supported directorate.
The vacancy announcement opened on Sept. 28th and will close Oct. 4th, 2022. You can find the details for this position on the USAJOBs website at: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/67
You Don't Need to be an Astronaut to Work in Space
Oct 07
You don’t need to be an Astronaut to work in space!
Join us for the second event in our World Space Week series of events where we’ll be looking at some amazing space related jobs as we aim to
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Did you know that you don’t need to be an Astronaut to work in space! There are a huge number of jobs, careers and hobbies that would allow you to work in Space. We will hear from those who work at, and with, The Open University and what they do in space.
We’re giving you the chance to hear from a space lawyer, an icy moons researcher, an engineer and a researcher who studies the Moon. Find out more about our guests below.
• Scott Steele, Research Student with the OU Faculty Business and Law, specialising in Space Law & Governance, International Public Law, International Environmental Law and Public Law
• Devyani Gajjar, Research Student in the OU Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Her research investigates whether space technologies being applied for the Sustainable Development Goals could aid social justice and inclusive development.
• Mark Fox-Powell, a research fellow within the AstrobiologyOU group at The Open University. His research interests centre around the oceans of ice-covered moons in the outer solar system, such as Europa and Ganymede (moons of Jupiter) and Enceladus and Titan (Saturn), which may be habitable today.
• Tara Hayden, is a PhD researcher in the OU Faculty of STEM investigating the stable isotope geochemistry of volatiles in lunar meteorites.
This event will be delivered in a way to make the information easy to understand and is aimed at an audience of:
• Primary and secondary school pupils aged 9 years and above (Key Stage 2 and above)
• Homeschool children
• Parents and carers of children aged 9 years and over
• Anyone interested in learning more about space, astronomy, and astrobiology.
This event will be of interest to anyone with a curious mind about space and astronomy as well as teachers, parents and carers of children in Year 5 (Key Stage 2) and above.
Signing up to this Zoom event allows everyone, whether they are in-school or at home, to ask questions to our team of scientists via live chat on the day.
The event will be hosted in a Zoom webinar format on Friday 7 October 14:00-15:00 GMT.
An email reminder will be sent to you on the morning of the event.
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Intro to Javascript -- TechGirls -FREE Workshop grades 5-8
Oct 22
Free Workshop - Introduction to JavaScript
This free event is for middle school girls, grades 5-8. Registration through TechGirlz.org REQUIRED.
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Did you know that Disney, Netflix, Google and NASA, just to name a few, are all using Python? Python can be used for creating web applications, automation, programming robots and artificial intelligence. Python is the language of choice from beginners to experts.
Students will learn how to program using Python starting with simple data types, including numbers, letters and strings, and lists. Students will also explore comparisons, if-statements, and loops. Finally, students will use what they learned to create their own game.
Aerospace Systems Conference (ASC) and Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Upcoming STEM conferences shared by NSBE
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Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2022 2:36 PMTo: President NSBE SCP <nsbe.scp.chair@gmail.com>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Upcoming Conferences - ASC and SWE
Greetings,
This email is being sent to inform you about a couple of upcoming conferences; Aerospace Systems Conference (ASC) and Society of Women Engineers (SWE). Links are provided below containing registration details and additional information.
If you plan to attend the 2022 ASC Conference, either virtually or in-person, please respond to this email.
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2022 NSBE Hybrid Aerospace Systems Conference (ASC)
October 6-8, 2022
Virtual and Detroit, MI
Please register HERE<https://gcc02.safelinks.p
This hybrid forum will focus on providing access to critical aerospace industry research that promotes industry entry and career development.
**Day 1 is FREE for both online and in-person attendees (Detroit, MI) in honor of World Space Week.
Additional information can be found HERE<https://gcc02.safelinks.p
2022 Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
October 20-22, 2022
Virtual and Houston, TX (George R. Brown Convention Center)
Please register HERE<https://gcc02.safelinks.p
The World's Largest Conference for Women in Engineering and Technology, WE22, is just around the corner!
Additional information can be found HERE<https://gcc02.safelinks.p
**Text WE Conference to 1.844.705.0586 for WE Conference updates!
Virtual STEM Job Fair Women of Color Conference October 8th
STEM Virtual Career Fair next Saturday, October 8th. The Career Fair will utilize the vFairs platform and will take place from 10am - 4pm Eastern time (9am - 3pm Central).
For more information visit: WOC STEM Conference DTX (ccgmag.com)<https://gcc02.saf
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HMAAC ARTIST Floyd Newsome GRACE and MERCY-thanks efamily member John Guess for sharing
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Abstract Art Installation By Artist Floyd Newsum Helps Define Houston Megachurch
Rarely does the Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC) get the opportunity to work with an artist to express his faith with art and help a church define its mission. But that’s exactly what has happened with the installation of a major new artwork by nationally renowned artist Floyd Newsum, that dominates a main wall in Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church’s (WABC) Cathedral Atrium.
After a conversation with Wheeler Senior Pastor Marcus Cosby, Newsum, a church member with a history of solo and group exhibitions at HMAAC, and whose work hangs in the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC, approached the museum to discuss the concept, which HMAAC CEO John Guess, Jr. enthusiastically endorsed.
The 38 by 16 feet acrylic relief installation is titled Grace and Mercy, underscoring two of the major narratives the church stands for. Newsum has described the work as “cathedral beautification, with historical references to the evolution of Wheeler as well as the church’s old and New Testament scriptural foundation.” What stands out about Grace and Mercy is its abstraction, the favored medium of Newsum.
Art has always had a place in churches. But many churches have seemed to be out of touch with contemporary art, failing to regard engagement with abstract art as a significant spiritual practice. That seems to have changed recently, with a growing number of abstract expressionists, like Newsum, being welcomed into sanctuaries. For example, artist Jacques Jarrige earlier this year installed a 10-foot tall sculpture of Christ made of hammered aluminum 90 feet in the air in the center of the St. John the Divine Cathedral’s nave in New York City. And Gabriele Wilpers’ modern abstract glass sculpture on the West Wall of the Church of the Transfiguration in Orleans, Massachusetts, portraying Christ’s Transfiguration, has been viewed by church congregants and others for over a decade.
According to Guess, who began talking with Newsum months ago, “I just thought this possibility of abstraction entering a megachurch could open so many doors for worshippers to understand the many layers of faith through work, that like faith, is experienced by the readily seen and simultaneously understood at deeper levels by what is unseen but that exists.“
Newsum has previously described his work as “thought-provoking, with personal iconography and colorful contrasting forms” that present viewers “with spiritual and philosophical challenges, invoking a wide range of emotions.” For him, symbolic interpretation has meaning given the fluid contexts of our lives; lives best understood as the moving forward of our singular journeys that ultimately transition but never end.
That is certainly true of Grace and Mercy. Projecting strong and vibrant colors with lots of energy, Newsum fuses symbols like the bird, fish, and ladder that have personal meaning to him with religious references to Noah’s Ark, Adam and Eve, Prayer and Wheeler’s beginnings as a white, wooden framed, large shotgun styled place of worship.
“I am reminded of Matthew Ritchie’s similar installation at the Kemper Art Museum in Kansas City,” said Guess. “I look for Floyd’s piece to be the same kind of attraction for Wheeler.”
For Newsum, because it is for his church, this installation has been one of his most emotional creations. “What makes this installation so meaningful,” he says, ‘is that it hangs in my place of worship. I get to permanently share my gratitude with my fellow church members.”
Floyd Newsum’s abstract installation and WABC’s embrace of it is one of those rarely seen experiences at religious institutions, but hopefully it will serve as an example for other churches and artists.
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ABOUT FLOYD NEWSUM
Floyd Newsum, a painter and printmaker for over four decades, has been in over 80 solo and group exhibitions, with his work displayed at the Taft Museum in Cincinnati; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Houston Museum of African American Culture; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Philadelphia Museum of Arts; Polk Museum, Lakeland Florida; and the David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland College Park.
His works are in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African History and Culture, Washington DC; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Arts; Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Art Museum at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona; David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland College Park; Art Museum of South Texas; and other museums and institutions. His works have been published in catalogs, books and magazines. Although known for his paintings on paper, he has created prints, drawing and sculptures, the latter the medium for four of his six public art commissions.
Floyd Newsum is a Houstonian by way of Memphis. Currently a University of Houston-Downtown Art Professor, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Memphis Academy of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University.
ABOUT THE HOUSTON MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE
The exhibits, message murals, films, performances, public art projects and community engagement events at the museum and inside neighborhoods of color emphasize the museum’s direct empowerment of neighborhoods. HMAAC has a singular goal: to create cultural capital in our neighborhoods that empowers individuals to feel more confident, to see the value and have more pride in the neighborhoods where they live, and in this way begin to break the generational cycle of poverty. It is in this context that the museum’s multicultural conversation on race devolves into the Afro-futuristic hope of a common future of equity and equality. Being the only African American museum in the country without dedicated public funds as a public good, HMAAC serves as an example of what vision and commitment can accomplish against significant odds. As a museum in a building and in the community, HMAAC stands as one of the most visionary and entrepreneurial cultural assets in the country.
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