Education

The center will give students research experience with companies such as AONDevices and BrainLeap Technologies, developing new products with artificial intelligence, virtual reality and other emerging technologies.

Andover Public Schools in Massachusetts purchased three MOVIA robots that can pair with iPad applications and give young autistic children practice at receiving verbal feedback and facial queues.

A $195,000 donation from a local senior citizens center will help Clear Lake Community School District in Iowa add an instructor to its industrial program, which offers technical training in a skilled-trades field.

College funding experts are expecting the popularity of e-gifting programs to continue growing as college gets harder to afford, 529 plans see double-digit growth, and supply chain problems delay other gifts.

South Dakota high school students worked in teams to design and build robots to snag small rings, drag larger mobile goals, manipulate platforms and perform other tasks in a weekend competition.

A new report from the Government Accountability Office calls for the U.S. Department of Education to work with CISA on updating cyber threat response plans for K-12 schools that are more than a decade old.

Teachers and students at a Catholic high school and a pre-K through 8th public school are learning to collaborate through FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a nonprofit robotics program.

Storing so much personally identifiable information, research and other data, colleges and universities have become frequent targets of cyber criminals. To qualify for cyber insurance, they must have some controls in place.

After administrators noticed unusual activity on the university's network on Nov. 11, users started reporting issues with Wi-Fi, email, coursework submissions and other functions, which some have attributed to a virus.

The University of Central Florida beat teams from 105 universities in a contest requiring them to build, secure and defend a complex network of systems and devices used by oil companies, electric companies and others.

Two months after a cyber incident may have exposed their personal data, thousands of educators took up an offer from the Missouri Public School Retirement System for two years of free credit-monitoring services.

Live panels of experts from private, public and nonprofit sectors, organized by the nonprofit Connected Nation, convened this week to discuss what the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act means for the digital divide.

Education policy advocates say the bill provides crucial funding for K-12 Internet access necessary for online learning, which continues to be popular following last year's COVID-19 school closures.

Initially launched with nonprofits, government agencies and schools who helped identify people who needed it, the program is being offered more widely to citizens in need of Internet or devices.

The university's new 74,000-square-foot building has an incubator space intended to grow startups that solve real-world problems, touching everything from cellphones to health care to education to the environment.

The University at Albany this week held a ribbon-cutting for its Emerging Technology and Entrepreneurship Complex, which houses programs such as atmospheric sciences, emergency services and homeland security.

The online cultural exchange platform Empatico connects classrooms in 160 countries for interactive lessons focused on social-emotional learning and building cooperation, cultural inclusion and empathy.

The Missouri State Library system in Boone or Callaway counties is administering the Excel Adult High School program, an accredited online high school through which adults 18 and up can earn a diploma.