Category: STEM
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Batumi
is the second-largest city of the country of Georgia, located on the coast of the Black Sea in Georgia’s southwest, 20 kilometers north of the border with Turkey. It is situated in a subtropical zone at the foot of the Caucasus. Much of Batumi’s economy revolves around tourism and gambling (it is nicknamed “The Las…
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Architecture, Beach Front
Architecture Batumi is like a beach front resort with the best hotel and casino chain names in the world like the Sheraton, Hilton, Marriott, etc. There has been a huge boom in the construction of high rise buildings since the former US President Donald Trump announce his intentions of building a Trump Tower there, but…
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Petronas Towers
New Year’s Eve Celebrations 2023. The Petronas Towers at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia may not be the tallest sky scrapers in the world, like the Burj Khalifa sky scraper, but I think they are the most beautiful of all. A marvel of engineering and architecture the inspiration for their design had to come from no other…
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The Opera House, the Farmers, the Children, the Drone, and I
Skanderbeg Square, Tirana, Albania. I think this is my favorite place in Tirana, Albania. Here is where I learned to use my drone and I also discovered, as a STEM professor, that children have a natural affinity for drones, they love them. I used to fly my drone low and slowly around the words #TIRANA…