I was at the famed Lawrence Berkeley National Lab yesterday to drive my son Rahul and some of his teammates from Lynbrook High School for the Regional Science Bowl tournament. The event was hosted by the Center for Science and Engineering Education.

The Regional Science Bowl competition test students’ knowledge of astronomy, biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, earth, computer, and general science. There are are couple of Science Bowl tournaments in the Silicon Valley Bay Area, one at Stanford, Berkeley and another at Lawrence Livermore. This is not a surprise given the concentration of high tech in this area. At this …

I was in Stanford to attend Wonderfest 2009 & and to watch the finals of the Bechtel WonderCup Challenge 2009, in which my son Rahul was participating.

Bechtel WonderCup is the Bay Area high school science quiz & innovation competition. The Klein bottle trophy, the WonderCup, goes to the Bay Area’s best science challenge team. A Klein bottle is a closed 2-dimensional surface with no distinct inside or outside — a WonderCup indeed!

The Silicon Valley has a very strong science and technology culture, which permeates into the schools around this area.  It is not a surprise that a large number of …