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    News,  Space Exploration

    NASA Called College Students to Develop an Inflatable Heat Shield

    Who is NASA going to hire to create a vital component for an upcoming Mars mission? None other than the bright minds of our future – college and university students. That's right! NASA's Game Changing Development Program gave college students the chance to come up with unique ideas to generate lift. Sure, that's a fairly simple request, but your ideas will be used on cutting-edge, amazing spacecraft.

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    General Education

    Online Tools to Help Improve Faculty and Students Learning

    Technology is rapidly evolving as schools of every kind and budget size have integrated numerous technologies in classrooms to enhance learning and make it more interesting to students. The availability of high-quality online resources has made it easier for the schools to access multifaceted free and subscription-based services as well as other tools for the benefit of educators and students.

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    Higher Education

    Making the Most Out Of Your College Years

    College can be the most enthralling time of your life and it can also be the worst. What you make out of this crucial time of your life, matters the most. These substantial years will lay the foundation of the personality you choose to live with, the career you want to opt for and most importantly this phase of your life will hone a number of skills and talents that will eventually help you develop your interests in fields other than what you're studying.

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    Higher Education

    10 Secret Tips to Enhance Your College GPA and Become Successful in Life

    Are you a college student who is desperately striving to make a big difference in your college grades this year? You can't deny the fact that grades are definitely a measure of success that you achieve in college. Just like the price of a stock or the batting average in cricket or your salary at a job, your average grade point is a numerical indication of how good you're doing in college.

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    Management

    Young Start-Uppers: Why Should Students Consider the Idea of Starting Their Own Business?

    With academic life bearing down upon you, it might seem folly to consider starting your own business right now. Au contraire, it’s one of the best times to start your own business. Whilst your academic pursuits must always take the lead, your spare time can be better put to making some extra money and creating your own job for when you graduate. Thus, almost everyone should consider their statistics assignment seriously to become a real entrepreneur. Time Considerations At first glance, your huge timetable doesn’t have any space and you just don’t have time to start your own business. On the other hand, as a student you don’t work 9-5…

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    Sharks Tanked: Alternatives As Tech Startup Funding Declines

    We’ve all heard of frugal individuals tightening their belts, but venture capitalists cut off circulation to their legs in 2012. Nationwide spending on startups dropped 10 percent in 2012, and the number of total deals dropped 6 percent, according to the quarterly Moneytree Report based on data supplied by Thompson Reuters. North Texas saw one of the most dramatic declines as venture funding dropped 79 percent and total deals fell 18 percent from 2011. The anti-climactic IPO of Facebook was one of the primary culprits in venture capitalists shying away from tech startups. But there is still plenty of money to be had out there and here we provide some…