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

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The top-performing teams are: High School Division (Grades 9-12) THS Wind Breakers from Tabb High School in Yorktown, Va. Mauston Gummy Bears from Mauston High School in Mauston, Wis. The Quilt Blockers from Darlington High School in Darlington, Wis. from Smithfield Middle School in Smithfield, Va.

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Middle schools take part in Department of Defense math games

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Educational video game developer DimensionU hosted the 3rd Annual Department of Defense Math Games Tournament at four military research laboratories around the country. Middle school students from four states competed in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade level teams. In Illinois, the U.S. In New Jersey, the U.S.

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Is the maker movement putting librarians at risk?

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Stories, stories and more stories,” she told the school board last month. The Ray Marsh Elementary School directory lists Bombeck as “librarian” because she is state-certified to be one. But at least four Shawnee Mission grade schools have hired “innovation specialists” to run their libraries when fall classes open.

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In One of Connecticut’s Most Innovative Districts, Belief in Every Student Comes First

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At NPS, we've had our share of challenges, just like any other community, yet we remain a high performing, progressive school district. Our 1:1 initiative, for example, began at the first grade level, proving that these tools could extend and enhance learning and be used successfully even by a 5-year-old.

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Computer science courses still a rarity in California

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Those requirements include history, English, mathematics, laboratory science, foreign language, and visual and performing arts. There is computer science being taught in the elementary schools. They are literally doing robotics in the second grade.”.

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A Glimpse Into the Playful World of Seymour Papert

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Many years before formally learning about how gears work, playing with gears “did more mathematical development than anything I was taught in elementary school,” he wrote, noting that he later created mental gear-driven multiplication tables and equations with variables.

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New for This Year’s Back-to-School Shopping List: Face Masks

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At the Starkville Oktibbeha School District in Starkville, Miss., face masks are featured on the school supply lists for every grade at every school in the district, from Pre-K to high school. The school supply list of an elementary school in the Starkville Oktibbeha School District.