/PRNewswire/ Blackbird today announced the official release of the world s first educational version of JavaScript. Blackbird s Educational Version of.
Thousands Of Orange County Students Learn About STEM Careers And Environmental Topics From Leading Global Experts
The nation’s largest event of its kind celebrated 24 years of educating students about water and the environment in an expanded week-long virtual format. The Youth Environmental Summit (YES), formerly known as Children’s Water Education Festival, is a free virtual field trip featuring live and on-demand programs for Orange County’s third, fourth and fifth grade students. More than 6,600 students from more than 90 Orange County schools registered to attend YES during Earth Week, April 19 through April 23, and approximately 4,500 students tuned in daily during three days of live presentations.
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PORTLAND, Ore., April 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Blackbird, creators of the world s first educational version of JavaScript, today announced the official launch of the Blackbird education platform. Successfully trialed in middle schools and coding academies throughout the country, Blackbird s offering was built from the ground up to address the middle school gap in coding education – in a platform that can be administered by non-technical and technically minded teachers, instructors and parents. Based around Blackbird s proprietary educational version of JavaScript, Blackbird provides students, even those who have not been drawn to STEM or coding, with an understanding and aptitude in one of the most commonly used programming languages on earth.
COMMUNITY CLASSROOM: Teacher hopes to help students become investigators
Teacher seeks funding for educational kits and games By Frances Weller | April 6, 2021 at 7:10 PM EDT - Updated April 6 at 8:04 PM
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - A first-grade teacher at Malpass Corner Elementary School is hoping to teach her students how to conduct investigations by providing them with educational tools.
Ms. Womble is asking for educational kits and games through the Donors Choose website, an online charity that helps teachers get funding for school projects.
“This project aims to bring science to life in my first-grade classroom by giving students opportunities for hands-on exploration, discovery, design, inquiry, and investigation into key scientific concepts that are the building blocks for future learning across a wide variety of scientific fields, Womble says on her Donors Choose page. “This idea flows from the 3-dimensional learning model for the Next Generation Science Standards
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Regional Winners of 29th Annual ExploraVision Competition Announced by Toshiba and National Science Teaching Association
March 12, 2021 GMT
ARLINGTON, Va. (BUSINESS WIRE) Mar 12, 2021
Toshiba and the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA) announced today the regional winners of the 29 th annual ExploraVision program, the largest K-12 science competition designed to build problem-solving, critical thinking and collaboration skills that are central to the
Next Generation Science Standards.
This year’s regional winners’ projects include innovative ideas ranging from technology toothbrushes to a novel and more cost-effective approach to launch space rockets using reusable electromagnetic repulsion systems. The 23 winning teams will advance to the national phase of the competition, where participants will have a chance to win $10,000 U.S. Series EE Savings Bonds (at maturity) an