YES-2-TECH, the Youth Exploring Science (YES) team, took first place in the Instructables, Popular Science, and Treehugger.com Go Green Contest with their Geodesic Dome Instructable.

Instructables has always been a favorite site of mine. Whenever I visit it, I invariably spend entirely too much time browsing the creative ideas therein - social inventing.

YES is a St. Louis Science Center program that facilitates science, mathematics, and technology education and experience for low-income St. Louis teens.

Crazy idea: get a room full of programmers, designers, and various other creative professionals together for a weekend and emerge as a startup company with a launched product. A gaggle of entrepreneur/designer/hackers came up with this ingenious idea, and Startup Weekend which will actually take place July 6-8 in Boulder, Colorado.

Any creative and passionate souls with a weekend to spare can sign-up at www.startupweekend.com, and everybody who participates will get equal shares of stock in the company. The event begins Friday evening at 6pm with the presentation and discussion of three ideas and will end Sunday at 10pm with the product launch.

The location for Startup Weekend has yet to be announced. Check back at www.startupweekend.com for more information.

"The Oscars of the Internet," The Webby Awards, is now in its 11th year, and the nominees were announced yesterday. You can find the full list of nominees (in more than 100 categories!) and vote for your favorites at www.webbyawards.com.