Education

Four students at Michigan State University have entered a statewide contest with an AI-driven tutoring platform called YouLearn.ai which asks the user how they're approaching a question, rather than just answering it.

Career and technical education programs in fields like information technology and health care are multiplying while surging tuition costs, the prospect of loan debt and availability of jobs deter students from college.

Deloitte and Amazon Web Services will donate robotics kits, curriulum and training materials to a middle school, with plans to extend STEM outreach to more middle and high schools in the nation’s capital by 2026.

With support from a local redevelopment commission, a career center at Logansport High School in Indiana is giving students space to work with tools used in advanced manufacturing, construction and other fields.

A Women in STEM Innovation event hosted by the Midland Business Alliance encouraged high-school-aged women and girls to hear from industry professionals about work-life balance, common myths and how to move up.

Following an audit by the state comptroller, a school district in New York has identified and disabled unneeded accounts that belonged to former employees, as those represented potential entry points for cyber criminals.

Anxiety, depression, stress and other mental health issues have been on an upward trend in K-12, and software tools that provide a holistic view of a student’s physical and mental health could be part of addressing it.

Following debate at one district, a civil liberties lawsuit and what was initially an 18-month moratorium, the New York State Department of Education is drafting recommendations for facial recognition in schools.

San Jose-area high school students built and trained the artificial-intelligence device SIREN to detect gunshots and instantly communicate with students and staff at an affected school, along with the police department.

T.J. Smith, director of technology at Cloquet School District in Minnesota, said online attacks went from a rarity in 2017 to an omnipresent, continuously expanding threat that has necessitated responses from lawmakers.

A computer science student at Amherst College and a technical manager at Nuance forged a mutually beneficial relationship through Thrive Scholars, a program that supports students of color from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The AWS initiative will partner with several major companies, workforce development organizations and international agencies to tailor technology and upskilling programs for the job market.

The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education located at a U.S. Department of Energy facility has served local children for decades. The programs have advanced AI, robotics and coding.

A cyber attack involving file transfer and encryption software called MOVEit exposed personal information of children in foster care, the Minneapolis and Perham school districts and Hennepin Technical College.

Autry Technology Center in Oklahoma will host summer classes for middle school students to learn about technical careers, giving them experience building robots and learning about electrical principles and wiring.

Chip-maker Nvidia joined the trillion-dollar club recently, and it’s eyeing AI’s transformative potential in life sciences, physics, climate, cybersecurity, data science, robotics and simulation.

A partnership with the University of Mississippi Medical Center allows 440,000 K-12 students to get medical attention online for minor illnesses or mental health issues while public schools are out of session.

Shift_ed, a nonprofit that promotes career and technical education, transformed a school bus into the Mobile Innovation Lab, a makerspace with hands-on activities to expose middle schoolers to STEAM fields.