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Cruising low and slow: The ‘Lowrider Capital of the World’ is seeing a rolling revival—thanks to local pride, pageantry, and hydraulics
“Car culture is central to life in many American small towns: Rituals like weekend cruises and fixing up a first beater become rites of passage where distances are long, gas is cheap, and public transportation nonexistent. But even among the most car-crazy of small towns, Española, New Mexico stands out. It has long been the…
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Artist: Jerome Rocha
2019 Southwest Choppers Softail – Not Off The Shelf Jerome Rocha is no stranger to custom cars and bikes, he has building cool rides for over 35 years. He owns a small shop in Albuquerque New Mexico called Southwest Choppers. https://www.motortrend.com/features/2019-southwest-choppers-softail-not-off-the-shelf/
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Artist: Kate Russell
“Kate Russell’s only salaried job was when she worked for a circus, and then Meow Wolf happened. Prefers not to eat vegetables that start with the letter A. Can be compensated with fresh raspberries. Loves a good handstand. Grew up in a town of 2000, with only 2 paved roads. That town; Calais, Vermont, now…
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Artist: Luis Tapia
“Luis Tapia is a pioneering Chicano artist who for forty-five years has pushed the art of polychrome wood sculpture to new levels of craftsmanship and social and political commentary. Tapia’s extraordinary figurative works speak to the complexity of a multilayered Latino/Hispano/Chicano identity, history, and contemporary culture, offering compelling insights and challenging perspectives on life in…
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Artist: Jack Parsons
Photographer Jack Parsons has spent almost forty years investigating the light, landscapes and cultures of the American Southwest. In September 2006, New Mexico honored his unique career with the Governor’s Award for Excellence and Achievement in the Arts. http://www.jackparsonsdigital.com
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Artist: Richard Maddox
CardoMadd Photography https://www.cardomaddphotography.com/ Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/cardomaddphotography/?fbclid=IwAR15TkQ2eCsDiHyOKDdZWI6IWtxJ8OB6AURpaWC__0UM8_3CVPeEIw63g80
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Lowrider Lifestyle – Raising the Bar on Chrome and Banana Seats
“As the story goes in the early 1960s kids all over California started taking part in the lowrider lifestyle by customizing their bicycles and mimicking what they saw their older brothers or fathers were doing to cars and motorcycles. Just because you were a kid, it did not mean you could not have some cool…
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Experiment: Build your own airbrush – Applying Bernoulli
“Rapidly moving air will be at a lower pressure than when it is stopped. This is called Bernoulli’s principle. So when you blow across the top of the straw, the rapidly moving air is at a lower pressure than the air above the water in your glass.” https://www.thenakedscientists.com/get-naked/experiments/build-your-own-airbrush-applying-bernoulli
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Teacher Tool: APPENDIX J – Science, Technology, Society and the Environment
“The Framework specifies two core ideas that relate science, technology, society and the environment: the interdependence of science, engineering and technology, and the influence of science, engineering and technology on society and the natural world. “
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Teacher Tool: APPENDIX I – Engineering Design in the NGSS
“The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) represent a commitment to integrate engineering design into the structure of science education by raising engineering design to the same level as scientific inquiry when teaching science disciplines at all levels, from kindergarten to grade 12. There are both practical and inspirational reasons for including engineering designas an essential element of science education.” https://www.nextgenscience.org/sites/default/files/resource/files/Appendix%20I%20-%20Engineering%20Design%20in%20NGSS%20-%20FINAL_V2.pdf
