Along with their partners and mentors, STEM Challenge has planned a ton of events and hands-on workshops designed to teach the basics of game design.

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You know, even as we enjoy each other's company tonight, we're also mindful of the incredible struggles of our fellow Americans in the Gulf Coast, both those leading the efforts to stem this crisis and those along the coast whose livelihoods are in jeopardy as a result of the spill.

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The Syrian army has also boosted its presence along the previously unpatrolled Lebanese border, to stem the movement of people and weapons from loosely-policed Lebanon.

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There was a pilot investigation program, which, among other things, traced a 1904 fruit-decay crisis in California to cuts in the fruit from stem clippers and the fingernails of handlers (and, along the way, introduced modern packing methods industry-wide).

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