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

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Over the course of the three-day event, these highly skilled students were tested on their knowledge of renewable energy, their design and problem-solving skills, and their wind turbines’ energy output by a team of renewable energy educators and industry professionals. from Smithfield Middle School in Smithfield, Va.

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Students see the future through robots

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.” Dozens of students from Vista View and Mesa View middle schools and fourth- and fifth-graders from Westmont and Lake View elementary schools, in teams of two or three, worked over the school year to create their robots, said Sandi Lewis, a STEM teacher with the district who acted as mentor to the kids throughout the project.

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Vernier Software & Technology Takes Science to the Next Level

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This standalone data-collection platform takes the award-winning LabQuest interface and enhances it with a robust set of new features and functionality for middle school, high school, and college students to use during classroom, laboratory, or field investigations.

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Stem Education in 2020

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Now it is possible to create virtual reality and virtual laboratories for students to practice in. She claims that the development of spatial skills in a pre-school has a further impact on the learning abilities of students in STEM disciplines. Grants and New Opportunities. Early Childhood STEM Education.

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Computer science courses still a rarity in California

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On Friday, it listed over 1,000 openings within 25 miles of Sacramento that mentioned programming or database analysis as desired core or secondary skills. There is a stark disconnect between those numbers and the amount of computer science education offered in California public high schools.

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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. We wanted to prove that it wasn’t just “the best and the brightest” who could achieve at this level—and it certainly wasn’t only elementary and high school students.

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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. Learning Stories.