Tag: STEM

Arconic Foundation and Discovery Education Receive Prestigious CODiE Award for Best STEM Instructional Solution for Grades 6-12

Stuart Mitchell

The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) – the principal trade association for the software and digital content industries – recently announced the winners of the 2020 CODiE Awards in education technology. Arconic Foundation and Discovery Education was named Best STEM Instructional Solution in the Grades 6-12 category for their Manufacture Your Future initiative. Through a suite of no-cost digital resources, Manufacture Your Future cultivates the next generation of manufacturing leaders and innovators. Manufacture Your Future provides hands-on learning for 3rd-12th grade teachers, students, and families that build the skills…

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Teenage STEM Competitors Engineer Hospital Ventilators

Stuart Mitchell

Teenage veterans of the global FIRST® Robotics Competition are helping coronavirus patients in Afghanistan by making ventilators out of car parts. The ingenious young women are using the engineering skills they developed in the Bechtel-supported FIRST engineering tournament along with the mentoring of Roya Mahboob, an entrepreneur who has been among Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World, to deliver ventilators to hospitals for around $600 each, a fraction of the market price. The girls, aged between 14 and 17, come from Herat, where Afghanistan reported its first…

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1851 Trust, INEOS TEAM UK’s official charity, launch new online STEM education platform to further support remote learning as summer term begins

Stuart Mitchell

With students across the country getting back to school work with the start of the Summer term, the 1851 Trust, INEOS TEAM UK’s official charity, has launched a new online platform, the Pupil Portal, on STEM Crew, supported by INEOS, providing young people with direct access to their learning resources inspired by Britain’s challenge to win the America’s Cup. In the current circumstances with most students still unable to go to school, home schooling has become more prevalent than ever. That is why the 1851 Trust is creating new ways of…

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Sparking the Next Generation of Young Scientists with Science at Home

Stuart Mitchell

With nearly 55 million students across the US still homebound due to COVID-19, STEM education has now moved from the classroom to the home. To facilitate science-based distance-learning, 3M is helping students and educators with the all-new Science at Home video series. Created in partnership with the Bakken Museum and Discovery Education, 3M Science at Home offers students ages 6-12 a series of fun and educational science experiments that can be easily completed at home using commonly found household items. These experiments, led by 3M scientists and special guests (like…

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iD Tech & Adobe Team Up to Provide Life-Changing STEM Experiences for More Than 150 Underserved Bay Area Students

Stuart Mitchell

This summer, 161 underserved students in the San Francisco Bay Area learned video production, digital photography, YouTube channel creation, game design and more, thanks to a partnership between iD Tech Camps, the world leader in summertime STEM education, and Adobe. Through the partnership, the students, who range in age from 7 to 18—and 50 percent of whom are female—were awarded full scholarships to attend iD Tech Camps at universities in the region, including Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Santa Clara University, and San Jose State University. While the camps are one…

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