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A new survey from the research firm Britebound finds parents are increasingly open to career and technical education, even as traditional college remains their top preference for after high school. -
The university's College of Medicine will collect data through eyeglasses and smartphones to capture student-patient interactions, then provide personalized feedback on clinical reasoning and communication skills.
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Council Bluffs Community School District will spend funding from Google on an autonomous robot, new welding booths and specialized Project Lead The Way engineering devices and IT hardware for interdisciplinary courses.
The CDG/CDE AWS Champions Awards honor AWS customers who are setting new standards for innovation in the public sector.
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The National Science Foundation recently awarded St. Edward's University $1,181,608 million to recruit and train undergraduates for future teaching careers in biology, chemistry and mathematics.
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Tallahassee Community College has earned international recognition for its Digital Rail outreach program, a fully-equipped mobile unit that brings technology training to Tallahassee's impoverished school neighborhoods.
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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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The Center of Ethics, Society and Computing has been unveiled by the University of Michigan, with a mission to intervene when digital media and tech replicate inequality, exclusion, deception, racism or sexism.
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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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A Pitt task force will study algorithms used by Allegheny County, Pa., to spot possible bias. This initiative aims to ensure that historical discrimination and inequalities are not reinforced.
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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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