K-12

Based on student interest and largely paid for by ESSER funds, the Pennsylvania district's new school will accommodate up to 1,000 students, potentially alleviating overcrowding at another school.

The New York City Department of Education's "A School Without Walls" program includes a hybrid option which blends in-person and remote learning, and a virtual option with daily synchronous lessons in STEM or humanities.

North Central Texas College this week hosted Go for IT!, a free, four-day camp to introduce middle schoolers to IT career possibilities in coding, 3-D printing, cybersecurity, drones and other fields.

With more students looking to fast-track technical job training programs to gain in-demand IT skills, states like Oregon and Colorado have placed more focus on workforce development programming.

The Boston-based startup accelerator has chosen five startups — four from the U.S. and one from Austria — for its 12-week Breakthrough to Scale program, and many of them propose tech solutions to workforce training.

As part of a plan to expand STEM instruction, a Pennsylvania school has hired a designated technology coordinator to design and implement programs, redesign curricula and advise the Technology Student Association.

The CyberPatriot Camp, hosted by Calhoun Community College's Decatur campus in Alabama, teaches regional high school students to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities in Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

The academy was established in 2009 by the Montana state Legislature to provide credit recovery and supplemental online courses, primarily for grades 5-12, in subjects that weren't offered in rural school districts.

The Wisconsin district's administrators gathered Monday with elected officials and other leaders of the solar installment project, which includes 292 roof panels to generate 20 percent of the school's energy needs.

Robeson Community College in North Carolina hosted middle and high school students last week in a camp that challenged them to correct security issues and change passwords and policies on user accounts.

A partnership between a Michigan-based STEM education center and Kellogg Community College is hosting hands-on tech classes at little to no cost for kids aged 8 to 18 throughout the summer.

In a co-authored report about a 2021 ransomware attack, former administrators of Broward County Public Schools in Florida shared information with Safer School Solutions that they had withheld from the public.

The Virginia-based wireless software and hardware company is deploying its private 5G platform on Google Distributed Cloud Edge, potentially lowering costs for schools to build and maintain their own wireless networks.

Recognized by TIME magazine as one of the country's most innovative teachers, Joann Blumenfeld of Raleigh created programs for students with disabilities to find STEM careers and learn about geospatial technologies.

The state budget allots no money directly for schools to improve safety, leaving local districts to find money in their own budgets for metal detectors, security cameras, radio systems, door locks and other measures.

The information technology workforce development training provider will provide career exploration and training for 72 sophomores and juniors at seven high schools in Cumberland and Dauphin counties.

With ransomware and other cyber threats increasingly targeted at school systems, New York-based risk intelligence company Flashpoint is offering its risk management and cybersecurity platform to K-12 school districts.

The North Carolina district is planning an open house to show off a scanner called Evolv Express that can scan 3,600 people an hour for potential weapons, without requiring them to empty their bags.