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ACT
Aerospace Corporation
Aleph Objects Inc.
American Physical Society
American Society of Civil Engineers
American Society for Microbiology
The Atlas Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (at New York University)
Big Kid Science
Biosense Webster Inc.
Bucknell University College of Engineering
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute
Consortium for Ocean Leadership
Destination Imagination
EurekAlert!/AAAS
Explore Mars Inc.
Georgia Institute of Technology
George Mason University College of Science
George Mason University Volgenau School of Engineering
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
James Madison University
Leonard Gelfand STEM Center at Case Western Reserve University
National Center for Women in Information Technology
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
NumbersAlive!
The Pennsylvania State University
PicoTurbine International
Polytechnic Institute of NYU
Rice Space Institute
San Diego State University
Skilled Trades=America
Skilled Jobs Direct
SpaceCamp
Sparticl
Science Societies - American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America
Society for Leukocyte Biology
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
Society of American Military Engineers
Stevens Institute of Technology
The Edward Lifesciences Fund
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
The University of Florida
Turner Industries
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
United States Naval Academy (USNA)
University of Georgia
University of Rochester
Vanderbilt University
VCU School of Engineering
WashingtonExec
West Virginia University
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