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Sibin Mohan, Research Assistant Professor at the Information Trust Institute (ITI), the department of Computer Science and the Coordinated Science Lab, and his students have been teaching computer science concepts at Urbana Middle School using curriculum resources created by Lenny Pitt in Computer Science and MSTE staff Jana Sebestik and Judy Rocke. Information about the project can be seen on the Inspiring Future Programmers article on ITI web page.

For the ninth year, the University of Illinois Department of Physics is bringing "Science at the Market" on selected Saturday mornings to Urbana's Market at the Square. Various U of I and other experts will be on hand each week with demonstrations illustrating the science they represent and to answer questions from the public about the researchers' disciplines.

October 2018 Schedule:

• October 6, 2018: Physics
• October 13, 2018: Robotix
• October 20, 2018: Illinois Geometry Lab
• October 27, 2018: AstroIllini

For the second year in a row, BeeSpotter has reached a record number of verified submitted bee spottings!

In 2017, bee spotters contributed over 800 spottings to the project, the most BeeSpotter had ever received in a single season up to that point. This year, bee spotters surpassed last year's number by late August and the hope was to crest 900 this year.

Well, as it turns out, those goals were too modest. BeeSpotter just identified their 1,000th spotting! At the time of this writing, BeeSpotter has 1,016 verified bee spottings for 2018. The 1,000th spotting of this year was a honey bee submitted by the St. Louis Bee Brigade. Thanks go out to the Bee Brigade for all their excellent work spotting bees and submitting those spottings these past two years!

Visit BeeSpotter.org to view a listing of all the 2018 spottings.