There's a siege mentality about Michael Bay's movies, as though viewers are the enemy holed up in a bunker and he's the guy ordering heavy-metal music around-the-clock to wear down our morale and force us to surrender.

Honors biology student Ethan Gage from Mountain Pointe High School competed in the State Science Olympiad recently. He won the robot arm event beating out 34 other schools for first place.

In countless films about emergencies, crimes and police work, the 911 dispatcher is but a bit player, an anonymous, robotic voice briefly heard on the other end of a breathless call made by our movie's main players.

Everyday after classes are dismissed at Desert Vista High School, engineering and robotics students stick around campus to test, build and design their robots.

New Year’s Eve is the last day local school districts will be accepting tax credit donations for the year.

Kyrene Altadeña Middle School’s robotics teams recently competed in regional and state competitions, bringing home first and fifth place titles.

‘Amazing Women Needed for High Paying Careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).” Now this is a message that grabs your attention. Exciting our future engineers, scientists and innovators is critical to the future of our economy, yet enticing women to these fields is falling behind.

"Amazing Women Needed for High Paying Careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).” Now this is a message that grabs your attention. Exciting our future engineers, scientists and innovators is critical to the future of our economy, yet enticing women to these fields is falling behind.

After numerous incarnations in film, theater, television, opera, and radio, Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” has become one of the most heavily adapted novels of all time. Unless somebody can do something really original with the material, there isn’t much need to revisit “Anna Karenina” again. The latest version from director Joe Wright makes a few attempts to reinvent the exhausted story, such as setting a majority of the narrative in a theater house. While this direction is ambitious, it still doesn’t make the material particularly fresh. If anything, Wright’s distracting staging customarily makes the whole film feel overblown and pretentious. Much like Lars von Trier’s stagy “Dogville” from almost 10 years ago, Wright’s “Anna Karenina” is too self-righteous and in love with itself for the audience to love it back.

It’s really hard to tell sometimes.

It’s just the beginning of October, but for some it’s not too soon to think about what the kiddies will want for the holidays.

ASU Polytechnic officially opened Citrus Dining Pavilion and Century Residential Hall on Sept. 18, the first new dorm on the east Mesa campus.

Family household size and income will be used to determine eligibility for free and reduced-price meal benefits for the 2012-2013 school year in the Kyrene School District.

At Chandler’s Gangplank, adults can “be dangerous,” testing out ideas and launching start-up businesses, all with the support of like-minded individuals.

Hundreds of medical assistants and CMAs (AAMA) are scheduled to attend the 56th Annual Conference of the American Association of Medical Assistants Sept. 7-10 in Scottsdale, at the Doubletree Paradise Valley Resort. Attendees can choose from more than 30 topics, including robotic surgery, bariatrics, bullying in the workplace, drug recognition for the medical assistant, and legal issues to avoid in allied health education.

If you’re concerned the pool chlorine and video games are depleting your kids’ brain cells, then gather the crew and hit the road to see the new exhibit opening today at Arizona Science Center.

The boys of summer are back.

Chelsea Kozak has always been interested in technology. Through the use of various devices and with age, that curiosity turned into a desire for more knowledge.

Chelsea Kozak has always been interested in technology. Through the use of various devices and with age, that curiosity turned into a desire for more knowledge.