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Student-run coffee shop
"There’s a new coffee shop in Cleveland, and it’s in John Marshall High School. The "Lawyers Café" serves lattes, healthy fruit smoothies, and Rising Star coffee, and it’s completely student-run. While they brew up the drinks as baristas and handle the budgets on the finance team, all of the scholars are getting hands-on job skills and learning what it takes to run their own small business."
Spring Sport
We are consolidating over 10+ years of coverage of sport standards by the season now. This is our first cut breaking the topic into four separate seasons. Join us today at the usual hour when we sort through stabilized literature and the codes and standards open for public consultation
Sports Equipment & Surfaces
ASTM International is one of the first names in standards-setting for sport equipment and facilities in education communities which present at least as large a market as the private sector. The parent committee meets again at the Hyatt Regency Dallas, May 5-7. 2026. (The ASTM business model rests heavily on income generated from participant hotel reservations.) Linked here is information about participation discounts to students and faculty.
Quadrivium: Spring
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. Titles are time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 15:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
Sport News
“Man’s life is brief, but through contests he touches the eternal.” -- Pindar, 'Nemean Ode 6.23-24'
A novel smart energy management system in sports stadiums
Collegiate sport venues consume huge electrical energy. This paper proposes a novel embedded real-time, smart, and active energy management system to monitor and efficiently manage such huge and typically uncontrolled energy for minimizing energy consumption and cost per day while considering spectators preferences, comfort level in behavioral modification program, and health aspects.
Swimming Pool Dimensions and Construction
The basics, with links to controversy over the "non-standard pool" at last year's Olympic Summer games and this year's USA competition at Indiana University.
Current Issues & Recent Research
We are tooling up for the NFPA 2029 National Electrical Code Technical Committee Meetings in September and the IEEE Industrial Applications Society Meetings in October.