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A Student Improved a Classroom Tech Solution—So the Company Hired Him

Edsurge

He had learned some coding and development on his own through freeCodeCamp.org , and he had polished some of those skills doing work for a small WordPress related company. at a company where customer feedback is vital to ongoing development, it’s his perspective as a student user of the product that is especially valued.

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Visual Math Brightens the Future of the STEM Workforce

MIND Research Institute

This neuroscience and social benefit organization is transforming the way students engage with mathematics and support their interests in other STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields — the industries that are building a brighter future for us all. Tools for Tomorrow’s STEM Workforce.

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Texas’ Richardson Independent School District Selects Discovery Education to Support New STEM Education Initiative

techlearning

- Unique Digital Content Combined with Sustained Professional Development to Help Create Vibrant Culture of STEM in Participating Schools - Silver Spring, Md. Through the “Future Ready: STEM for All” initiative, RISD seeks to transform the Berkner Feeder Pattern’s culture and pedagogy.

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Challenging the tried-and-true, to serve a younger generation of students

The Hechinger Report

Fried has introduced biochemistry to students of various ethnic groups and socioeconomic statuses in schools and museums, finding that all of them happily grapple with the curriculum. While men tend to dominate STEM fields, girls are as interested in these lessons as boys, he said. Now it is expanding. billion by 2024 from $1.7

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Answering the President’s Call for #CSforAll

Digital Promise

Talladega County Schools is partnering with the Alabama Math, Science, and Technology Initiative (AMSTI) to deepen teachers’ content knowledge in STEM education and promote strong pedagogical and technological skills for student instruction. Coordinating with the private sector.

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Better Representation in Artificial Intelligence Starts Early

Edsurge

In our flagship program, which we started in 2017, we run AI summer camps for underrepresented high schoolers. How do you talk to young students about jobs that might not be there anymore in the future? How does your organization do that exactly? And at each stage there are barriers preventing people from getting into it.

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How to Boost Classroom Engagement With the Tech Tool That 'Always Works'

Edsurge

When she became the district’s first educational technology director in 2017, Briana Allen looked for a better solution. She tried several options before jumping on a free trial of the wireless video streaming and screen mirroring technology by Vivi, an education-focused company founded in Australia.

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