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The Dell Foundation's $100 million gift to the University of Texas is a 10-year commitment to provide funds and services to Pell Grant recipients.
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The Hudson County, N.J., Schools of Technology are being awarded a $100,000 grant by the state Department of Education to create a pre-apprenticeship program focused on design and fabrication.
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A new campus will feature a sensory garden for special needs students and play areas, and it is near the Smithfield TEXRail station along the route from Fort Worth to Terminal B at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport.
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NextLight, the municipal broadband service for Longmont, Colo., offers a community-driven program that puts low-income families with school-age children on a path to high-speed Internet for no charge.
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Saturday’s competition in Ebensburg, Pa., will include a total of 60 different technology-related categories across the high school and middle school divisions, including a wide range of topics.
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The project has won over officials who’ve provided information and guidance and helped win it a state championship in the FIRST LEGO League robotics competition, which encourages STEM-based experiences for students.
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Collins Aerospace and the Discovery Center Museum have forged a partnership to create an outreach program that will offer hands-on, interactive STEM activities to students in Rockford, Ill., schools.
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The district is partnering with the Technology Access Foundation to boost outcomes for students of color, boost STEM education and improve culture at the Central District school, where turnover has been a problem.
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Phasing in electric cars and trucks is a widely recognized benchmark in cutting greenhouse gas emissions, but now Maine’s long, ambitious climate-change journey is turning to battery-powered school buses.
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Robotics competitions are becoming part of Alabama’s attempts to help science, technology, engineering and math — or STEM — become a staple in student lives. There are more than 860 registered teams in the state.
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Created by a handful of graduate students at the University of Michigan, the new mobile application encourages others – specifically their peers – to volunteer with nonprofits in the community.
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The students at the University of South Florida are working to launch a rocket past the established boundary for outer space in order to earn a $1 million prize while also fostering greater interest in STEM fields.
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The Butler County, Ohio, project saw 5th and 6th graders presenting a project that uses Legos for robotics to show how county officials could better handle trains that pass through the area’s downtown.
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Wesley Lowman, 18, built a computer application from scratch that helps elementary students improve their math skills while playing a game, and now he will show it to lawmakers in Washington, D.C.
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An initiative will pair black and Latino educators with learning scientists to examine best practices and create an advisory group of school districts, colleges and universities, museums and education tech companies.
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The Indiana Department of Education has distributed K-12 STEM Acceleration Grants to 24 school districts across the state, working to support science, technology, engineering and math programs.
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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has announced that his office will partner with the Augusta University School of Computer and Cyber Sciences to ensure the state’s new electronic voting systems are secure.
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Wayne State University has launched a teaching residency project for the Detroit and Dearborn public school districts that aims to address the state's shortage of STEM teachers and support workforce development.
