This was a very busy year for us, full of excitement, new ideas, new people, all promoting Tesla in the best possible way.<\/p>\n
Right after the conference at the New Yorker<\/strong> in January of 2014, we started building a team that worked very hard, with weekly meetings and later on almost every day, to organize the event that happened on Jun 28th, 200 years of Serbs in America<\/strong>. This event, with Tesla as one of the most\u00a0important Serbian people that came to the US was organized by the TSF. We had around 700 people present for the weekend, and 120 for the Gala dinner and the awards.<\/p>\n More busts were donated:<\/strong><\/p>\n The busts were a creation of a young artist, Mr. Bojan Mikulic, who graciously joined the team several years ago, and made it possible for us to make this idea come true. We have worked with many groups and institutions this year, and loved working with the Art Institute of Phialdelpia<\/strong>, creating promotional videos for the foundation. We are looking forward to: Tim Eaton,<\/strong> Film Script Presentation Unveiling of the Tesla bust happened in the evening, with many guests and press involved. The sign on the bust will be cast in bronze will replace the temporary one and which says: \u201cNikola Tesla is the Serbian American scientist and inventor who invented the AC Electrical Power System used throughout the world today and other great inventions including the radio. The bust was blessed by Father Djokan Majstorovic of the St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church and unveiled by Nikola Lonchar, the President of the Foundation. Tesla Spirit Awards were awarded to:<\/strong> Plaque awarded for the first school that started Tesla\u2019s curriculum Preformances by: Tesla Science Foundation USA\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This was a very busy year for us, full of excitement, new ideas, new people, all promoting Tesla in the best possible way. Right after the conference at the New Yorker in January of 2014, we started building a team that worked very hard, with weekly meetings and later on almost every day, to organize […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teslasciencefoundation.org\/new_TSF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teslasciencefoundation.org\/new_TSF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teslasciencefoundation.org\/new_TSF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teslasciencefoundation.org\/new_TSF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teslasciencefoundation.org\/new_TSF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/teslasciencefoundation.org\/new_TSF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/teslasciencefoundation.org\/new_TSF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teslasciencefoundation.org\/new_TSF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teslasciencefoundation.org\/new_TSF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teslasciencefoundation.org\/new_TSF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teslasciencefoundation.org\/new_TSF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nto help the victims of the serbian floods that happened last May.<\/li>\n
\nPhiladelphia in June this year. This was the result of several years of relationship with the Franklin
\nInstitute. Our organization takes part in the Science Fair that they organize in march of every year, as
\nspecial guests. We had a reception and the ceremony of a Tesla bust unveiling where the
\nrepresentatives of the institute, of the city of Philadelphia, Serbian consulate, and the Prime Minister
\nof Republika Srpska, amongst many other guests and media were present.<\/li>\n
\nTesla Electric Light & Manufacturing company in 1887.
\nMany people there remember Tesla, and we were welcomed by the town’s Mayor and the towns
\nrepresentatives for the ceremony. Tesla’s bust will proudly stand where once his first electric street
\nlights were installed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\nsections that represent countries of the world. Serbia has a nice section with dozen of monuments
\nfor important people, including Tesla. This year, unfortunately, there was some vandalism and Tesla’s
\nbust was stolen.
\nThe Tesla Science Foundation decided to donate one bust of Tesla to replace the old one.
\nThis bust will be unveiled soon and we will be present at the ceremony.<\/li>\n
\ngesture to connect Serbian diaspora and their Embassy in the motherland.<\/li>\n
\nCanada and Vienna, Austria, to install these monuments.
\nThe purpose of these donations are to further promote Tesla, make him seen again, and noticed, to
\nprovoke questions and teach people of who he was and all of the wonderful things he did for the
\nhumanity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nWe will also donate bronze plaques, our “Tesla Spirit Awards”<\/strong>, to every school that starts using the Tesla curriculum, and we will start with our good friends, the Tacony Academy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n
\nWe were also special guests with the Evolve Festival<\/strong>, and looking forward to the new one, in September.
\nWe prepared this conference, connected with the teachers, book writers, scientists, artists and
\nothers.
\nThis year we connected with the UN<\/strong>, with the Unesco<\/strong>, while keeping in touch with old friends, like Tesla Science Center in Long Island<\/strong>, and the New Yorker Hotel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
\n2nd of June in Belgrade, Serbia, where “Tesla’s People” will have a gathering, 10th of July in Philadelphia, also for Tesla’s people, and Tesla’s Birthday.
\nWe are all volunteers, we are scientists, artists, musicians, teachers. JOIN US there are many positions open for all that want to help. We all work hard and we are all proud of our Nikola Tesla.<\/p>\nConference January 2015, New York – Who was presenting:<\/span><\/h4>\n
\nMichael R. Powel<\/strong>, Ph.D., Tesla Science Education in China
\nW. Bernard Carlson<\/strong>, Ph.D., Book Presentation
\nPhillip Baldwin<\/strong>, Ph.D, Tesla \u2013 Future
\nJane Alcorn<\/strong> for Tesla Science Center in Long Island, report on what has been done and what is
\nplanned
\nYuri Blanarovich<\/strong>, Tesla Art and Technology Camps
\nMaja Herman-Sekulic<\/strong>, Ph.D., Book Presentation \u201cA story of Youth Told by Age\u201d dedicated to miss Paula Fotich, by Nikola Tesla
\nChildren: Magdalena Frances Waters<\/strong>, Julian Driebeek<\/strong> and Kyle Driebeek<\/strong>
\nSchool Curriculum Program:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
\nNikola Tesla occupied rooms 3327 and 3328 at the New Yorker Hotel from 1933 to 1943.
\nTesla Science Foundation Logo Donated to the New Yorker Hotel by the Tesla Science Foundation on the behalf of the People\u2019s Republic of Serbia and Srpska\u201d<\/p>\n
\nTesla Exhibition was an important part of the event. This exhibition was acquired by the TSF from the Tesla Museum in Belgrade for events like this and the future Exhibit :\u00a0Tesla – Past, Present and Future\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>and was exhibited for all to see prior to the evening event.
\nTesla Spirit Awards:<\/strong>
\nAfter the opening remarks by Nikola Loncar, pre President, and Marina Schwabich, the director, we have heard the remarks and the speeches of \u2022 Serbian Ambassador to the U.N., H.E. Milan Milanovic<\/em><\/strong>
\nand a very important guest, \u2022 Moufida Goucha, Director, UNESCO Representative to the UN.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Jane Alcorn<\/strong> (Tesla Science Center of Wardencliff)
\n\u2022 Telefonica<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Serbian Church in NYC<\/strong> (bronze plaque awarded)
\n\u2022 Marina Arsenijevic<\/strong> (for music in Tower to the People, film about Tesla)
\n\u2022 Ashley REDFEARN<\/strong> and TESLA CURRICULUM TEAM<\/strong> that started to build the curriculum -bronze<\/p>\n
\n-For relentless dedication to Tesla\u2019s legacy
\nTesla Spirit President\u2019s Award: to Mark Passio & Michael Falseta (Some of the founders and long time supporters of the TSF)
\n-For memorializing Tesla\u2019 image in a bronze bust Tesla Spirit Fine Art Award to Bojan Mikulic
\n-Tesla Spirit Digital Education Award: to Brian Yetzer, the digital artist
\n-For keeping Tesla legacy alive Tesla Spirit Memorial Award- Nikola Radosevic, Posthumous<\/p>\n
\n-Mano Divina<\/strong>, Divine Hand Ensamble (Mano Divina and his ensamble were chosenn to be playing for
\nthe Pope in Philadelphia in the summer of 2015, and he will be presenting the TSF there)
\n-Brit Walmsley<\/strong>, on gusle, Tesla\u2019s favorite Instrument
\n-Ivan Bosiljcic<\/strong> and Jelena Tomasevic<\/strong>, our guests from Belgrade, velena-videos from Eurovision and\u00a0Ivan was reciting. some Tesla quotes.
\nTrailer for the \u201cTower to the People\u201d<\/strong> , film about Tesla, by Joseph Sikorski<\/strong> was played.<\/p>\nZvezdana Stojanovic Scott<\/strong><\/h4>\n