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Colorado State University's custom-built chatbot was developed on a secure network, so sensitive research and student information can be safely entered into it. -
A new STEM school in Council Bluffs Community School District is expected to have areas of concentration in medical technology, engineering, robotics, AI, aeronautics, cybersecurity and bioscience, plus a P-TECH program.
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Google has given money to support STEM education at Glenwood Community School District, apprenticeships at Iowa Western Community College and IT boot camps at Avenue Scholars Southwest Iowa, among other programs.
The CDG/CDE AWS Champions Awards honor AWS customers who are setting new standards for innovation in the public sector.
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Fears about misinformation, AI hallucinations, cheating and the long-term undermining of education persist, but college students and professors are finding AI useful for administrative tasks and tutoring.
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University at Buffalo joins Transportation Infrastructure Precast Innovation Center, where five schools will spend $10 million to improve ways precast concrete is used in highway and bridge construction.
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Announced at the G7 summit in Japan, the tech giants have committed $150 million in funding to the University of Chicago and University of Tokyo’s plan to create the world's first quantum supercomputer.
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Some educators and advocates say the best way to break the cycle of poverty is by accessing well-paid STEM jobs, as well as the many scholarships that go unawarded each year due to a lack of applicants.
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San Diego Unified School District recently confirmed that a data breach in October 2022 compromised student names and medical information, and the district is working to notify those affected as it identifies them.
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Two universities and a software company will use a $5 million award from the National Science Foundation to design, build and distribute robots to others across the U.S. robotics research community.
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Through a partnership with Electrada and Holman, electric shuttles will be in service on the Tennessee campus in August. The switch from gas-powered buses is part of a university initiative to go carbon neutral by 2050.
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In a local event mimicking the popular reality TV show Shark Tank, students used Tinkercad, a free app for computer-assisted design, to create a prototype of an invention or innovation to solve real-world problems.
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(TNS) — The National Institute of Science and Technology awarded the University of Colorado Boulder $94.5 million to continue its research partnership for another five years.
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The New York City public schools are loosening the reins on emerging technologies such as ChatGPT, while putting new rules and resources in place Thursday to promote artificial intelligence in classrooms.
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The funding will establish an Institute for Inclusive and Intelligent Technologies for Education on the Urbana-Champaign campus. The research focuses on non-cognitive learning skills among K-12 students.
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The university is set to add the new college, its first in more than 50 years — and is providing free curriculum to help spread data science to California community colleges, California State University and more.
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Researchers at the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences have been awarded nearly $4 million from the federal government to develop a climate-smart "4-D Farm."
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The Allegheny Valley School District joined a growing list of school districts nationwide that are in the process of pursuing legal action against social media companies like TikTok, Facebook and YouTube.
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Nonprofit OpenStax, which makes free online learning materials, has partnered with tutoring firm Scalar Learning. Enhanced algebra and trigonometry books featuring YouTuber Huzefa Kapadia will be out soon.
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Repowering older, internal combustion school buses as battery-electric versions can extend the life of bus fleets and save districts a lot of money as they transition to EVs.
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The grant looks to build off of last year's Internet Safety Labs study which noted that almost all ed-tech apps had shared students' personal info with third parties. New funding will allow the research to continue.
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The social media business model is simple: Trade Americans’ data for dollars, which has led companies to exploit our children’s anxiety and obliterate their attention spans by keeping them online as long as possible.
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