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Pedro Rivera toured a STEM Lab at Northeast Middle School in Reading, as part of his effort to find out how the state’s emphasis on STEM teaching is progressing in Pennsylvania and what more needs to be done.
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A new company has grown out of academic work at Virginia Tech and is now working to develop innovative ways to help high school students benefit from VR lessons, beginning with Spanish classes and branching out.
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The Burbank Unified Schools have received a $434,805 California Career Technical Education Incentive grant, which will help fund three makerspace facilities that can be used by students pursuing technical career paths.
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Savannah-Chatham Public Schools are testing HP Classroom Manager, which allows teachers to control what websites students can access on their digital devices. The goal is to reduce distractions during lessons.
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Aiken Technical College, in Graniteville, S.C., is accredited to offer training and certification for fifth generation wireless technology, which would need to be installed on the country’s 250,000 cell towers.
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In Allegany County, Md., heightened school security has become the norm in the 20 years since the shooting at Columbine High School. And more is coming in the form of visitor tracking systems.
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The University of California, Davis, will test whether VR technology can help children between the ages of 8 to 12 with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder to reduce their sensitivity to distractions.
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The university’s School of Education has received its second National Science Foundation scholarship, worth $1.2 million, to bolster the number of students who want to major in STEM as their career in K-12 teaching.
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Madison’s West High School students are part of a pilot program to put their cell phones in special pouches at the start of the class. Educators report cell phone distraction has become worse in recent years.
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Lambda School teaches online coding for free, but expects students to pay 17 percent of their income over two years, capped at $30,000. The income share agreements are new, but unregulated, according to experts.
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Gadsden State Community College, located near Birmingham, will use the $435,169 grant from the National Science Foundation to create an automated industrial line for certification in mechatronics and robotics.
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The university has received a $50 million contract from the Army and will shift the focus of its Automotive Research Center to autonomous technologies for military transport through 2024.
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More than 340,000 students in rural parts of the state do not have access to reliable broadband, forcing them to come up with unconventional methods to finish their homework, making the effort a struggle.
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Germaine White has helped develop app-based field guides to the Flathead Reservation’s fauna and has built a NASA-funded platform to share knowledge about climate change with Native students.
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Facing a $2.5 million budget deficit, the Carbondale School District in northeastern Pennsylvania hopes that virtually-run charter schools will reduce the cost of educating students in physical buildings.
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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology opened the new state-of-the-art building to bring classrooms and mechanical engineering labs together under one roof, boosting the school’s tech reputation.
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The Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team and the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company are giving $1 million in support of STEM programs at Akron public schools and the Cleveland Metropolitan School District.
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A new study by Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education found America’s higher ed students outscore China, India and Russia when it comes to programming, algorithms and software engineering.
