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LASM’s annual Engineering Day exposes children to the fun side of STEM BY KATIE GAGLIANO @katie_gagliano Hundreds of curious children and families filled the hallways of the Louisiana Art and Science Museum during its third annual Engineering Day on Saturday. The event featured 24 stations with displays ranging from 3-D printers that produced bracelets in real time to ExxonMobil’s solar-powered miniature racecars. The variety of exhibits promoted curiosity and exploration as kids stared wide-eyed at cancer testing demonstrations and asked questions about bridge building.
Sheree Westerhaus, LASM’s Engineering Day coordinator, said the museum started the event in 2014 to explore the connection between art and science through engineering and design. Though the event is targeted at children, an appreciation of science and engineering is not limited by age, she said. “Parents and grandparents with these children really have as much fun at it as anyone else,” Westerhaus said. “And that’s what museums want to inspire — lifelong learning.” Inspiring a love of STEM subjects at an early age is crucial, Westerhaus said,
because it helps children see that science and engineering are fun, not frightening, and it surrounds them every day. University students were key in bringing a fun spirit to the event and engaging the children, Westerhaus said. Of the 24 groups present, nine were either directly from the University or connected to it, and dozens of University students manned exhibits and served as guides throughout the day. “It’s priceless to watch the LSU students engaging with our visitors and
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Baton Rouge Major League Baseball fans will have their own corner of the world today. Barcadia, a bar, restaurant and arcade, opened at 11 a.m. for the Major League Baseball Opening Day party. As MLB games air from midday until late, food and drink menu specials will be available throughout the day, including 75-cent wings, $2 hot dogs and $3 domestic drafts. In addition to its regular menu and happy hour, Barcadia is offering several stadium-inspired special menu items for the event, including traditional ballpark snacks like nachos, chili cheese dogs, boneless wings, peanuts and Cracker Jacks. The party is co-hosted by Bite and Booze blogger Jay Ducote and tommysTV founder and producer Tommy Talley. “We’ve been saying for several years now that Major League Baseball Opening Day should be a national holiday,” Ducote said. “We wanted to do something this year to celebrate that.” Ducote said he wants to create an atmosphere welcoming any and every type of baseball fan, from the employee on his or her lunch break, to the student
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Foreign students showcase cultures at International Fusion BY TRENT PARKER @TrentParker_TDR The International Student Association hosted music, dance and fashion performances from a multitude of cultures at International Fusion on Sunday night. The event, held in the Student Union Theatre, opened with a reception in which tables displayed clothing, art and traditions from around the world. Students from Nepal, Oman, Sri Lanka and many other countries answered questions and taught attendees about their respective homelands. “It’s a representation of the
melting pot of LSU ... an annual event that’s bringing us all together,” said Kenyan management graduate student Habiba Alambo. The Sri Lankans and other tables offered to translate names into their languages and presented attendees with calligraphy of the results. “We [Sri Lankans] have very little population here,” chemistry graduate student Jeewan Ranasinghe said. “This is a good chance to provide people with our culture, our dances, our letters; so many things.” Others wanted to also dispel misinformation about their home
countries. Electrical engineering graduate student Hamed Shamkhali said he hoped information on traditional calligraphy, handmade jewelry and literature would counter negative portrayals of Iranian people in the media. “We try to show that we’re coming from a rich culture,” Shamkhali said. “We are very friendly, we are very peaceful.” After the reception, International Fusion moved into the Student Union Theater for cultural performances from
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The International Student Association presents a contemporary Indian dance during the 6th annual International Fusion on Sunday at the LSU Student Union.
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Tiger Band members foster big plans for business venture BY CAITIE BURKES @caitie1221
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[Left-top] A Tiger Band clarinet player uses the eFlip. [Left-bottom] Saxophone section leader Garrett Kessling uses the eFlip during a Tiger Band halftime performance. [Middle-top] Finance senior and drum major Daniel Wendt (left) and business management senior and saxophone section leader Garrett Kessling (right) look over the eFlip. [Middle-bottom] The eFlip holds an iPad next to a traditional paper-holding flip folder. [Right] Garrett Kessling uses the eFlip during a Tiger Band music rehearsal. photos courtesy of Eddy Perez and Moe Athmann
Combining their love of music and entrepreneurial savvy, Tiger Band’s drum major and saxophone section leader created eFlip, a device that allows musicians to mount their phones and tablets to their instrument with a lyre. Business management senior and saxophone section leader Garrett Kessling invented the product, while finance senior and drum major Daniel Wendt managed the business side of the venture. After reaching their first major deal with the University of Illinois’ marching band, the two plan to fully stock their inventory by the beginning of the summer.
Since he first joined marching band in the sixth grade, Wendt has harbored a lifelong appreciation for school band culture. However, he said the way bands rehearse has not kept up with the pace of modern technology. In a typical band rehearsal, shuffling between sheet music and playing instruments wastes time and paper, he said. “Think about the way you read magazines and newspapers and books now. It’s all digital, right?” Wendt said. “Well, bands didn’t have that option because there was no way to connect phones and tablets to instruments.”
Kessling sought to simplify the rehearsal experience by looking for a way to literally and figuratively connect music to technology. He went to the Louisiana Business and Technology Center where a student engineer helped him design different 3-D printed models for what would become eFlip. With a $400 prototyping cost, Kessling said the invention process was “extremely cheap” compared to an expected $10,000 price tag without the LBTC incubator’s assistance. In 2014, he said the LBTC asked him to represent the University at an annual SEC
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Symposium in Atlanta. Looking for a business partner to join him on the trip and in the endeavor, Kessling approached Wendt about controlling the financial and marketing sector of the business. Two years later, eFlip sells for $24.99 on Kessling’s and Wendt’s venture company Tonal Innovation’s website. If an entire band adopts eFlip, he said the band director gets a cheaper wholesale price. Wendt said he and Kessling implemented a two-pronged approach to their brand — targeting individuals, whose eFlip usage he expects to create a “snowball effect,” and band programs, which will be able to reduce costs of printing sheet music in favor of iPhone or Android apps. Despite an abundance of pre-order sales and individual sales, Kessling said Tiger Band has not jumped on the bandwagon yet. “A select few in Tiger Band do use it, but we’re looking to discuss with the administration at LSU to get it implemented here as well,” Kessling said. As winning veterans of the Fourth Annual Elevator Pitch competition sponsored by the E.J. Ourso College of Business, Wendt and Kessling plan to participate in the Student Incubator’s 2016 Venture Challenge, another business plan and pitch competition complete with a panel of judges who act as investors. The two hope to secure part of the $25,000 prize split among the four winning pitches. With a filed patent, working prototype, actual invention and sales, Kessling said he thinks Tonal Innovation has a chance at success. Staying true to their slogan, “bridging the gap between music and technology,” Wendt said eFlip allows customers to save time and money and enhance music practices. “We’re bringing the band world into the 21st century.”
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Tigers nab first road series win this season
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Stellar performances from Bugg, Jordan and Romero power LSU to 10-5 win against Auburn, marking Tigers’ first SEC series win this season BY JARRETT MAJOR • @Jarrett_tdr
LSU junior pitcher Parker Bugg (46) throws during LSU’s 7-1 loss against Tulane on Tuesday at Alex Box Stadium.
LSU beat Auburn 10-5 to earn its first Southeastern Conference series win of the season in Auburn’s Plainsman Park on Sunday. “Every team in this league is very talented and can beat you on any weekend, so for us to come here and win the series against an Auburn club with a lot of firepower is a significant accomplishment,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri in a press release. Sophomore first baseman Greg Deichmann started the game for LSU with an RBI in the first inning, which was LSU’s first run in the first inning in SEC play. Auburn (13-15, 2-7 SEC) answered in the bottom of the first with three runs and two hits. LSU responded in the second when freshman right fielder Antoine Duplantis singled
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After taking first two games, team loses third against Georgia, 3-1 BY JOSHUA THORNTON @JoshT_TDR The eighth-ranked LSU softball team won its first Southeastern Conference road series of the season after winning on Friday and Saturday against No. 10 Georgia at Jack Turner Stadium. But the Tigers (28-9, 5-7 SEC) couldn’t finish the sweep against the Bulldogs (31-7, 5-4 SEC), losing 3-1 on Sunday. “We’re happy to walk out of here with a series win,” said LSU coach Beth Torina in a press release. “We had opportunities to win the game today, but couldn’t perform like we needed to.” The series win in Athens was the first since the 2000-01 season when the Tigers last won in Georgia. On Sunday, LSU freshman pitcher Sydney Smith stood in the circle for the Tigers, marking her first start in SEC play this season. Her appearance didn’t last long, as Smith (7-2) only made it through 1.3 innings after allowing five hits and two earned runs and was swapped for LSU sophomore pitcher Carley Hoover in the second inning. Hoover (11-3), who also started in the Tigers’ 5-4 victory on Friday, caged the Bulldogs offense to four hits. Unfortunately for LSU, she couldn’t get any run support.
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BEACH VOLLEYBALL
Team sees success, struggles in two-day Invitational tournament BY JOURDAN RILEY @jourdanr_TDR The No. 12 LSU beach volleyball team hosted the two-day, three-team LSU Beach Volleyball Invitational at Mango’s Beach Volleyball Club. The Tigers (9-4) defeated No. 10 Grand Canyon on Saturday and fell to No. 3 Florida State. Riley Young and Jeni Clark won in straight sets to overpower Grand Canyon in the first match of the day. Megan Davenport and Cheyenne Wood earned LSU a 2-0 lead after winning three sets
against Grand Canyon. Katie Lindelow and Ashley Allmer fell short against their opponent, dropping both sets with a final score of 21-19. The duos Cati Leak and Callan Molle, Helen Boyle and Lilly Kessler brought the score back home for the Tigers, both winning in straight sets on Friday. “We’ve honestly been talking all week about taking care of Grand Canyon,” said LSU coach Russell Brock in a press release. “We’ve been preparing for that, and we’ve been focused on that, and we were looking to
execute well against that team. We felt like we matched up well against them, and taking one match at a time, that was our focus preparing and it showed,” he said. Florida State defeated Davenport and Wood with straight sets of 21-13 and 21-11. Young and Molle also lost their match in straight sets while beating Lindelow and Orellana in straight sets. Florida State left with a 5-0 score in all straight sets after
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LSU sophomore Mandi Orellana (15) prepares to serve during the Tigers’ 5-0 defeat against Florida State on Saturday at Mango’s Beach Volleyball Club.
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Modified Tiger lineup showing growth at right time in SEC play
had to grapple with a lineup that shows less pop than its predecessor. Gone is the Tiger offense that held a league-leading .314 batting average, 15 percentage points higher than the next-best lineup. Gone is the lineup that recorded 762 hits, 146 doubles, 23 triples, 51 home runs and 451 runs, which all ranked somewhere in the top five in
the conference. Often times, it’s difficult to process how much of a loss that is until one sees the production, or lack thereof, at the plate. Frankly, up until this weekend’s series against Auburn, there wasn’t much to be optimistic about offensively. But sometimes it takes one or two moves to jump start an offense, especially in terms of extra base hits. Trailing by four
runs early in Game 1 against Auburn, Mainieri substituted junior catcher Jordan Romero for sophomore Michael Papierski in the fourth inning. Two doubles, two home runs and seven RBIs from Romero later, the pop had been found and LSU walked out of Plainsman Park Sunday with its first league series win. But Romero wasn’t the only move that proved beneficial to the offense. Sophomore first baseman Greg Deichmann slid into the three hole for all three games, including the final two, when Romero batted cleanup. The result? Deichmann collected four RBIs, including a two-run home run in the Game 1 loss. On the season, Deichmann and Romero have combined for half of LSU’s 18 home runs. “[Romero] and Deichmann hitting in the middle of the order were obviously tremendous threats for us,” Mainieri said Sunday. “We’ve been lacking so much in the extra base hit department.” So much was made about LSU’s inability to plate runs with runners in scoring position over the majority of the eight previous games before the Auburn series. But extra base hits can alleviate
the SEC’s home run leader — Georgia senior infielder Tina Iosefa — to a mere two hits throughout the weekend. In total, the LSU pitching staff gave up 24 hits and eight runs to the Bulldogs in the series. Clutch hitting was a theme for the Tigers this weekend. Three of the 11 runs the Tigers scored during the three-game series happened when LSU’s back was against the wall with two outs. LSU senior first baseman Sandra Simmons shined versus Georgia as she hit, hitting a solo home run in game 2, and finished the series 4-for-6 at the plate, and added two scores. LSU sophomore pitcher Allie
Walljasper was also a factor for the Tigers behind the plate and in the circle. “Something we’ve been looking for all season long was for the Fighting Tigers to show up and they did,” Torina said on Friday in a release. Walljasper blasted a twoout, two-run home run in Friday’s game to spark a rally. The Manteca, California, native also pitched in the next game, delivering a solid performance in the circle, Torina said. “Allie did a good job of scattering hits throughout and not giving up a lot of hits back-toback,” Torina said in a release after the Tigers 5-1 win on Saturday. “She made a lot of big pitches in big moments.” LSU will be back at Tiger Park for a midweek matchup against Southern Mississippi at 6 p.m. on Wednesday.
LSU then-freshman pitcher Allie Walljasper (25) looks for the ball after a hit during the Tigers’ 10-2 victory against Oklahoma on March 21, 2015, in Tiger Park.
BEW’S CLUES JAMES BEWERS @JamesBewers_TDR At a media session prior to the 7-1 loss to Tulane on March 29, LSU coach Paul Mainieri was asked about what he and his coaching staff prioritize when it comes to recruiting. “Every year is a little bit different,” Mainieri said last week. “The No. 1 priority is always pitching. You have to get the arms to be competitive. I know everyone loves offense, and I do too. But, if you give up 7-8 runs a ball game, you’re going to have no chance to win in this league.” When it comes to position players, Mainieri explained he looks for versatile players – ones who play defense as well as hit. How well a player plays defense becomes just as important as what they show at the plate in high school, which can be difficult to project. “It’s hard to take a chance on those guys when you have a limited amount of roster spots,” Mainieri continued. “It’s also hard to let those guys have 2-3 years to develop when you have to win every year.” In a season defined by youth and inexperience, Mainieri has
SERIES, from page 3 The Tigers rallied in the top of the fifth, putting runners on the corners with one out, but LSU couldn’t capitalize. With runners on base, LSU mustered only one hit out of 13 attempts, and left eight stranded in the contest. Georgia senior pitcher Chelsea Wilkinson stifled the Tiger’s lineup, only giving up two hits to the LSU offense. “Overall, I think we played well,” Torina said. “It was a big moment for our team to come in here and take a series against a really good program.” The LSU pitching staff held
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LSU sophomore infielder Greg Deichmann (7) runs to first base during the Tigers’ 7-5 victory against Alabama on March 20 at Alex Box Stadium.
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playing against the pairings of Boyle and Allmer and Leak and Kessler. “We knew that we were going to be in this so we practiced some this week with some of other lineups, so I think it’s great for us to have the ability to switch it up a little bit in some fashion,” Brock said in a Friday press release. On Sunday, LSU held the Gold and Purple doubles tournamentstyle brackets. The higher seeds received first round bye as single elimination was the name of the game. LSU had one pair advance from each bracket make the
the need for three or more hits to score a run, a pattern LSU toiled in recently. On its way to 23 total runs this weekend, eight more than it had in the first six SEC games combined, LSU picked up eight extra base hits, a number Mainieri can’t ignore. “If the only time you score runs is by getting a hit with a runner in scoring position, then you’re counting on a lot of luck as well,” Mainieri said. “It’s nice when you can score a runner from first base or even score yourself from home plate with a home run.” LSU isn’t complete offensively by any means, and Auburn’s pitching staff, which has the highest team ERA in the SEC, is far from the best LSU will face this season. Consistency has to be the goal with a critical home series against Vanderbilt, a topfive team nationally with the second best team ERA in the league. However, Mainieri believes his team is only “one game behind” of where he expected it to be at this point in the SEC schedule, considering the two road series. With a pitching staff showing flashes of composure throughout the weekend, a growing club may look back at the Auburn series as a turning point by season’s end.
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final, resulting in LSU’s Carly Morris and Wood playing against teammates Roxanne McVey and Victoria Boraski, which Morris Wood won. In the first round of the Gold bracket, Orellana, Boyle and Young, Molle lost to Grand Canyon and Florida, respectively, in straight sets. Lindelow and Allmer defeated Grand Canyon in straight sets with close scores of 21-19 and 21-18. Leak and Kessler lost their next match to Florida State as Lindelow and Allmer also lost against Grand Canyon. In the Purple bracket, Hoven, Clark, Boraski, McVey, Wood and Morris all beat their opponents
“We’ve honestly been talking all week about taking care of Grand Canyon.” RUSSELL BROCK LSU beach volleyball coach in straight sets to advance to the quarterfinals. McVey and Boraski advanced to the finals after a three-set win against Florida State. Wood and Morris followed suit with straight sets against Grand Canyon. The two LSU duos went head-to-head in the finals with Morris and Wood winning in straight sets with 21-16 and 21-16.
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Lawmakers, oil companies need to reconsider fracking SMASH THE HATE JACK RICHARDS @jayellrichy The number of earthquakes that are directly or indirectly caused by horizontal oil well drilling is fracking ridiculous. Those who drill for oil and those who regulate their activity need to consider the consequences of such an environmentally destabilizing practice. Fracking is the simplified term used to describe the process of drilling hydraulic fracture wells and the subsequent extraction of unrefined oil. For those of you who aren’t petroleum engineering majors, drillers will basically shoot massive quantities of fluid into the ground to make it easier to pump oil out. At one point, this technique was the cutting edge of petroleum and natural gas drilling. It was so effective and unused, state legislators established a tax break for companies who used the method to get oil. These days, fracking is as common as the passed out guy with
a black marker mustache on his face at a party. Fracking is still shaking things up, but not in a good way. A study published Wednesday in Seismological Research Letters shows that fracking triggered 90 percent of 3.0 magnitude or greater earthquakes in Western Canada. If and when an earthquake caused by fracking manages to do serious property damage, those affected may face a difficult time getting restitution to pay for the damages. Some insurance policies may have language in them that only covers “natural” earthquakes, or an “act of God.” In these cases, somebody whose home is unsafe to live in because of a frack-quake might have to sue the drillers, themselves. That’s extremely difficult to do, for a number of reasons. First, some of those drillers may be multinational oil companies like Royal Dutch Shell or ExxonMobil, which have teams of lawyers waiting to drop more than 500 pages of legal documents on the victim’s doorstep to intimidate them. Even if those trying to seek
restitution make it past the flood of discovery requests and motions to dismiss, the odds are stacked against the victim. The scientist involved in the study cited earlier said fracking directly caused only one percent of those quakes. It’s not just Canada. Fracking in Oklahoma is tied to an increased number of earthquakes, especially in the areas around fracking sites. Since fracking is common in Louisiana as well, this should scare residents of parishes where there is a lot of drilling. Further, it’s exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to establish legally-sufficient proof that a specific fracking operation caused a specific earthquake. Try proving it to a judge who doesn’t like to rule against oil companies, and you end up leaving victimized property owners on their own to pick up the pieces. If you don’t believe me, take the example of secondhand smoke. Even though it’s scientifically proven repeated exposure to secondhand cigarette smoke has the potential to damage lungs, there’s no way some-
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This image provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows the USGS forecast for damage from natural and induced earthquakes in the U.S. in 2016. body can successfully sue people around them who smoke. Earthquakes aren’t the only problem with fracking. The high-pressure fluids injected into the ground often contain chemicals many consider toxic to humans and the environment, including acids, detergents and poisons, according to an opinion by geoscience professor Susan Brantley published in The New York Times. If these chemicals get into drinking water, there could
be serious health impacts for those who rely on it. For those oil well operators trying to scrape together a living in a bad market, fracking is an invaluable tool for them to make money. However, the risks to the environment, the public and private property mean we need to find a better, cleaner and safer way. Jack Richards is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from New Orleans, Louisiana.
Setting goals is essential for personal finance, future success JAY TALKING JAY CRANFORD @hjcranford In school, our personal goals can change how we follow advice. For example, I didn’t care about making an A in music appreciation, so I didn’t study. The same applies to personal finance. Our personal goals will change what rules we follow. The basic rules of personal finance are to save money, avoid debt and invest for growth. Most advice on personal finance has to do with the science behind finance — yearly investment returns and proper insurance coverage. However, we often overlook the “personal” in personal finance. While following the rules of finance will put you on the path to financial security, your behavior and attitude about money
are just as important. If you’re like most people who dedicate themselves to personal finance, you think of your habits in two ways — spending and saving. Even more so, we categorize spending as bad and saving as good. This trap is easy to fall into and eventually prompts you to save money for the sake of saving money. In reality, money is a tool for achieving your short- and long-term goals and not something to be saved until it’s necessary to use. Thinking of money as a tool makes planning significantly easier. Let’s use the issue of retirement as an example. Most resources on retirement will tell you the same thing — max out your employee-sponsored savings plan and save a certain percentage of your salary based on your age. This formulaic approach arbitrarily builds your retirement
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savings account because you have not set your specific retirement needs. While this is better than no plan at all, you may be ineffectively utilizing those hard-earned dollars. Now, let’s shift our mindset to money as a tool to achieve our goals in life. Most people want to travel when they retire. Let’s say you want to buy an RV and go on a cross-country trip for a year. Assigning a dollar value to the expense of your future trip is easy. Now we have a specific goal to work toward, whereas before we were vaguely saving money for travel expenses. After clearly defining our goals, we may find that we’ve been saving too much money and some of our paycheck could be better spent in short-term enjoyment, like going out to eat more often. Before you make a budget, sit down and write out your
short- and long-term goals. Figure out the financial impact of your goals. This will serve as the base for your personal financial plan. An effective financial goal can be described three ways — achievable, specific and measurable. A few examples include paying off a $30,000 house down payment in three years, paying off credit card debt in six months and saving $4,000 for a vacation next year. These goals are much more effective than the standard, “have $1 million by retirement,” or, “live debt free.” Having a budget and financial plan based on your comprehensive list of goals eliminates the “saving good, spending bad” mentality. If you know you are on track to meet your goals, then spending money here and there can be guilt-free. The basic rules of personal finance will always be the same,
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no matter if you learn them on the Internet or at a fancy seminar. But only you can define the goals you want to achieve. Jay is a 21-year-old finance senior from St. Simons Island, Georgia.
HOW TO SET FINANCIAL GOALS 1. List goals and time frame 2. Estimate the cost 3. Set a specific target date 4. Determine monthly/ weekly savings rate 5. Rework budget with the new goals
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Monday, April 4, 2016 STEM, from page 1 inspiring them,” she said. Physics junior Irene VargasSalazar said exposing children to the fun side of science helps dispel potential prejudices surrounding who goes into STEM fields and what they do. Many children assume physics is limited to solving mathematical equations, but making the activities relatable helps open their eyes and spark interest, she said. After getting them interested in science and engineering, the
volunteers encouraged attendees to consider a future in STEM for themselves. Computer science sophomore Leslie Morgan said breaking down children’s sense of limitations, especially girls’, is one of her personal missions. The TigerRacing Formula SAE team member said events like Engineering Day show children their dreams are achievable. “Events like this really draw a lot of different kids in from a lot of different socioeconomic backgrounds,” Morgan said. “It’s
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really great for kids to see events like this because not only do they not know that it exists, but they don’t know that it’s so easy to become involved in this.” Many children think racing is limited to wealthy men with sports cars and don’t realize becoming involved is as simple as attending the University and joining the TigerRacing team, she said. Allowing them to get in the car, ask questions and interact with team members shows them that anything is possible. Aside from encouraging
page 7 personal potential, the event also explored engineering’s potential as a diverse and creative field. Andrew Pfalz, a second year Ph.D. student in the University’s Experimental Music and Digital Media program, said his field explores new and different ways to
create music through technology. While engineering is a largely analytical field, Pfalz said, it can also be a creative endeavor. “It’s especially important for them to realize that just because they’re in a STEM field doesn’t mean they can’t be creative,” Pfalz said.
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FUSION, from page 1 around the world. The show commenced with an audience greeting in a variety of languages. Performances included magic tricks, Bengali dancing, Chinese Yue opera and Costa Rican violin solos. “It is a very good opportunity for people from all over the world to get familiar with other’s countries and cultures,” said
addition to everything else he does, including his podcast, TV appearances and blog. “We’re certainly really excited about having the first food service location with my name on it,” Ducote said. The entrepreneur plans on being heavily involved in the hiring process for Gov’t Taco. While he plans to be at the eatery as much as he can, Ducote said his hires would oversee the day-today operations of the booth. “Getting to put forward whatever flavor combinations we want and whatever’s seasonal and fresh in the form of a taco, that’s the idea behind Gov’t Taco — to be a very kind of modern American-type taco joint,” he said.
Shamkhali. Bands like The Oligarchs and Chai And Coffee made of players from a variety of countries combined influences from diverse backgrounds in their music. The festivities briefly halted for representatives of the LSU Alumni Association to take the stage and announce the recipients of the 2016 International Student Scholarships. The group presented four awards to eligible
undergraduate and graduate students, two for men and two for women. After the performances ended, audience members, performers and organizers alike were invited to meet at the International Cultural Center for a dinner featuring a variety of dishes from around the world. “The world is beautiful, it is a diverse place, and that’s what I want them to know,” Alambo said.
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leaving class, to a couple grabbing dinner. “It’s beer and baseball and Barcadia for the day. We thought it would be a really fun way to spend the day and watch all the baseball games,” Ducote said. “To do it in a social environment, where we can invite anybody in town who’s a baseball fan to come join us.” Barcadia general manager Mikal Stall said the restaurant is enthusiastic about hosting the event and collaborating with Ducote. “Having more sports available to people, we think it’s a great way to kick it off,” Stall said.
Both Stall and Ducote are expecting a large turnout for the day-long watch party. “How could you really pass all [the food and drink specials] up, while watching baseball at the same time?” Stall said. Ducote agreed that people in the area shouldn’t miss this event. “Students should swing by and try to enjoy the experience of being in a bar that really is trying to celebrate baseball’s opening day,” Ducote said. Along with Barcadia’s upcoming event, Ducote is working on more ways to expand his résumé. He recently signed on at White Star Market as a tenant to open his newest project, Gov’t Taco. The booth will be an
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Barcadia, a bar, restaurant and arcade near the University’s campus on Highland Road, opened its doors with limited hours for the first time during last year’s Super Bowl on Feb. 01, 2015.
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EFFORT, from page 3 and sophomore left fielder Beau Jordan hit a two-run home run to tie the score. In the top of the fifth, LSU managed to further its edge against Auburn. After sophomore designated hitter Bryce Jordan got hit by a pitch for the 11th time this season, LSU knocked in three consecutive singles to court two runs before a Deichmann fielder’s choice brought in a third to give LSU a three-run lead. “I think it says a lot about the character of our team to earn a series win on the road after we fell short in the first game,” Mainieri said. Auburn rallied in the bottom of the sixth when junior left fielder Joshua Palacios blasted a home run in the lead off spot. Then, LSU senior pitcher John Valek III loaded the bases, before being replaced by junior pitcher Alden Cartwright who injured his arm in the middle of the next at-bat. Junior pitcher Parker Bugg replaced Cartwright and allowed a walk to give Auburn a run in the bottom of the fifth. It was the only run Bugg would allow all game. In the top of the seventh, junior catcher Jordan Romero blew the lid off of the game with a three-run home run to push LSU’s lead to four. Junior shortstop Kramer Robertson further expanded the gap in the eighth with an RBI single.
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LSU junior infielder Kramer Robertson (3) hits the ball during LSU’s 7-1 loss against Tulane on Tuesday at Alex Box Stadium. “We’ve played back-toback road series against the top two offensive teams in the SEC (Texas A&M and Auburn), and we split those six games,” Mainieri said. LSU hit 5-for-10 with runners in scoring position and connected 13 hits. Auburn hit a mere 1-for-5 with runners in scoring position and had eight hits. Auburn struggled defensively all series. Auburn gave up two errors on Sunday after giving up
five errors to LSU on Saturday. In contrast, LSU gave up zero errors on Sunday and just one in the entire series. LSU’s 10 runs on Sunday are its most in SEC play this season. LSU hosts crosstown rival Southern on Tuesday in Alex Box Stadium on 6:30. “We’re right in the thick of the league race, and our team will continue to develop as we move through the conference schedule,” Mainieri said.
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