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Bluepoint Wind Awards $10,000 in Grants to New Jersey Teachers for Renewable Energy STEM Kits

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Newark, NJ – Offshore wind company Bluepoint Wind is announcing today the winners of grants to further STEM education for 10 teachers from schools across New Jersey. Each educator chosen by the Company will receive $1,000 worth of interactive STEM kits from KidWind , an international leader in renewable energy education.

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Pluralsight, Vista Equity Partners Agree to $3.5 Billion Acquisition Deal

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Pluralsight , the publicly-traded provider of online training courses on technology skills, has reached an agreement to be acquired by Vista Equity Partners in an all-cash deal worth approximately $3.5 Together, the company claims it serves over 17,000 customers, including 70 percent of Fortune 500 companies.

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Noodle Acquires ‘Key Assets’ of HotChalk to Expand Online Program Services

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But the New York City-based company has a new partner to help expand its footprint in an increasingly competitive market. based company that also offers online program management (OPM) services for higher-ed institutions. Yesterday, Noodle announced it had acquired the “key assets” of HotChalk, a Campbell, Calif.-based

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2023 CODiE Awards Announced

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The SIIA Education Division serves and represents more than 200 member companies that provide software, digital content and other technologies that address educational needs. I’ll be digging deeper into these companies and products in the coming weeks. has spent his life learning and educating. Stay tuned!

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KidWind Supports New Children’s Book Featuring Women in Energy

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November 8, 2021 – Following a successful Kickstarter campaign, the authors of the upcoming book Everyday Superheroes: Women in Energy have partnered with several energy companies. KidWind, an international leader in clean energy education, will give out books at trainings and workshops, as well as at KidWind Challenges.

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Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

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In 1998, for instance, researchers from the university formed a spin-off company called Carnegie Learning that popularized the math tutor software developed at the university. More recently, in 2013, a company called Acrobatiq was formed to try to bring lessons learned from the Open Learning Initiative to the market.

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Turnitin to Be Acquired by Advance Publications for $1.75B

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A company best known (and sometimes rebuked) for its plagiarism checker has just received one of the biggest checks in the education technology industry. Over the years, it saw the most success in education and the company shifted to focus specifically on that market. The founders had to bootstrap the company in its early days.

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