Author: Steven Davy

Michigan State summer camp has fun with German language

Senta GoertlerMichigan State University Assistant Professor of Second Language Studies and German Senta Goertler teaches an Immersion German Summer Camp for High School Students.

ChalkboardThe camp offered students the chance to find out about recent trends in German pop culture, listen to German music and watch German movies, meet other German high school students from all over Michigan, discover MSU and its campus, experience the German Program at MSU first hand.

Monday the students participated in several games including a German oriented scavenger hunt. See a map of where the scavenger hunt took the students after the jump.

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The camp takes place from Monday, June 22 – Thursday, June 25.

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Wednesday Security Industry

From my Security Industry beat. Click on headlines to read stories I filed under the UPI byline.

LINTHICUM, Md., June 24 (UPI) — The Maryland Procurement Office has contracted Raytheon to develop a protection service for sensitive data movement between security classification levels.

CALGARY, Alberta, June 24 (UPI) — The Canadian navy has contracted Raytheon to convert its Phalanx anti-ship weapon systems into a next-generation configuration.

MOORESTOWN, N.J., June 24 (UPI) — Lockheed Martin announced it has completed its latest Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System installation on the U.S. Navy’s USS Lake Erie cruiser.

GAITHERSBURG, Md., June 24 (UPI) — The U.S. Air Force has contracted Lockheed Martin to support the Defense Enterprise Computing Center Transition.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va., June 24 (UPI) — Augusta Systems Inc. has been contracted by the U.S. Navy to support the unmanned vehicle system intelligent network with testing and enhancements.

FARMINGDALE, N.Y., June 24 (UPI) — Telephonics Corp. has been contracted to deliver its search-and-rescue radar technologies for installation on Russian-built Mi-17 helicopters.

BLUE BELL, Pa., June 24 (UPI) — Unisys has been awarded a follow-on contract to continue its support of the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command’s Global Freight Management.

ST. LOUIS, June 24 (UPI) — U.S. company Northrop Grumman has contracted LaBarge Inc. to provide the Directional Infrared Countermeasure system with electronic technologies.

WARRENVILLE, Ill., June 24 (UPI) — U.S. company Navistar Defense Wednesday announced the debut of its specially designed International Husky Tactical Support Vehicle.

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