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Kidwind Celebrates Top Renewable Energy Innovations From Students At The 2023 National Kidwind Challenge

eSchool News

Elementary School Division (Grades 4-5) Hutch STEM Blue from STEM Magnet School at Allen in Hutchinson, Kan. Since the first competition in 2009, the KidWind Challenge and its partners have successfully implemented events in 42 states, with roughly 50,000 students competing in 400 events across the country.

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Edtech and Social Emotional Learning #sel

The CoolCatTeacher

Her original research went into the design of Renton Preparatory in Seattle, which was a 2016 Top Three STEM School in the nation. See: Creating Elementary Portfolios and One Note in the Classroom. She has also spoken at New York Academy of Sciences for Scientific American and Macmillan STEM Summit, NYU, UCLA, UW. Vicki: Cool.

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TenMarks Shutdown Leaves Teachers Wanting, Competitors Circling

Edsurge

School and district users had ample warning about the demise of the adaptive K-12 math and writing software—the company issued a notice on its site 15 months ago—and yet many say that the off-boarding process was not a smooth one. Its parent company, 3P Learning, promises to price-match on districts’ most recent TenMarks contract.

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

The Hechinger Report

Around 2009, Lee learned about the Junior Theater Festival (JTF) in Atlanta, where students from across the country gather for three days to compete, take workshops and nerd out over musical theater. Elementary schools like P.S. 124 are the “new frontier, because upper elementary is a great time to introduce kids to theater.”

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Microsoft to spend $75M to boost computer science

eSchool News

This marks a major expansion of Microsoft’s YouthSpark program, the company’s effort to get young people hooked on computer science and build a larger, more diverse talent pool for the technology industry. Microsoft, like other major technology companies, is wrestling with gender imbalance. ” ©2015 USA Today.

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An After-School Education Program Aims to Diversify the Tech Industry

Edsurge

Soon, employees from one of the world’s most influential companies will arrive to teach these students about computer science: how to program computer games, how to work with data and how to found and run a business. It's like kids are already getting knocked out for the count in elementary school.”

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

The Puerto Rican rate is from 2009-2010, the latest available in a territory whose government produces few up-to-date statistics, and which federal counts often don’t include; experts say it’s likely only gotten lower since then. “It It’s also true, she said, that, “If you don’t have resources for the future, the companies can’t stay.”.

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