Education

After years of delays and $74.1 million in renovations, a new high school in Syracuse will offer concentrations including media technology, robotics automation, data analytics and semiconductor microchip technology.

Dow High School students Sophie Cai, Emma Huang and Gabe Nix not only took a memorable journey recently, but also came home with first place in the United States.

Pennsbury School District employees in Chester County, Pa., are using a chat app for official business that automatically deletes messages after just 24 hours.

A new data system in Washington, D.C., will track student outcomes from preschool through post-secondary education and employment, potentially informing decisions by parents, employers and community partners.

Driven by student interest and funded through student fees and philanthropy, a new esports facility with 25 new gaming computers is open for both competitive and recreational gaming.

As part of Gov. Wes Moore’s $90 million climate pledge to cut emissions, school districts can receive grants for up to 85 percent of the incremental price of purchasing qualified electric school buses.

School administrators at a district in Pennsylvania predicted some logistical issues with new AI-driven security devices, but on the second day of the new process, officials said it was running more smoothly than expected.

Leaders hope NVIDIA’s resources, training and networking opportunities will help improve competency in artificial intelligence among San Jose city employees, as well as faculty and students at San Jose State University.

Rhode Island is the first state that will use a federally funded service offered through MS-ISAC to automatically block all public school computers from connecting to malicious domains.

A need for skilled workforce development and technical training in Central Texas has prompted the college system to expand to a 12th campus, which will likely host programs in advanced manufacturing technology.

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, along with researchers from other universities and industry partners, will co-develop an advanced simulation platform between ground and air transport systems.

A high school in Colorado next year will start offering a course in unmanned aerial systems, with the high school providing an in-person flight teacher and Aims Community College leading an online, ground-school course.

A Bus2Grid project in Illinois will not only send electric school buses to 13 school districts, but enable them to discharge unneeded power back to the district, or an electric utility, when needed.

A community college in Southern California will offer a bachelor’s degree in drone and autonomous systems starting in 2026, aiming to prepare a workforce to use new technologies and applications of unmanned aircrafts.

This year, 18 states passed laws that make clear that sexual deepfakes depicting minors are a crime. Experts say schools should update their policies to account for these AI-generated images as well.

For New York City's largest solar project to date, a San Francisco-based investment firm will cover installation and maintenance while the city buys $85 million in solar power from the panels over the next two decades.

Allowing people to speak over Zoom has led to the average number of registered speakers at board meetings quadrupling, and the number of unique speakers tripled in the 2023-24 school year compared to the year prior.

The university is working with the nonprofit Operation HOPE and Sam Altman, who leads OpenAI, to start training people from kindergarten all the way through college on AI, focusing on south-side students.