In the News & Updates section of our blog, you'll find updates on many of the latest STEM developments. These include happenings from the STEM and MakerEd worlds as well as important Eduporium announcements. This is where we'll share updates on product additions, announce the recipients of our monthly educational technology grant, pass on company news, highlight upcoming events, and discuss a whole lot more when it comes to cool topics in STEM education. Beyond our STEAM coverage, we also touch on various elements of 21st century learning. These include remote instruction, special education, social-emotional learning, and equity and diversity. If it's happening in the world of education, we're interested. And, we'll offer our analysis on what's affecting students, teachers, and administrators, attaching our genuine thoughts to keep you updated.
This is an area for us to keep a repository of recent happenings. Whether it's the release of a new type of technology, any additions to an EdTech product line, the arrival of new brands to our store, or some thoughts on the current state of education, there's a good chance you'll find it here. As time has gone on, we've participated in more STEAM and makerspace events. So, we've started to keep curated collections of those experiences. You can find them all throughout the News & Updates category. As Eduporium continues to expand and we get to participate in more STEM education projects with educators in some of the country's biggest school districts, we'll share those stories, too. We hope our collective accomplishments and partnerships with members of the K–12 community inspire others to innovate in new ways!
Andy made stop No. 7 on Monday, visiting Yanaka Bernal at the Newark Charter School in Newark, Delaware. He presented her with the seventh of 10 Merge Cube donations and got a quick tour of the school. Yanaka and some of her colleagues have some pretty cool technologies to use with their students, including her own set of Merge Cubes!
On Thursday, we made our sixth school visit in a series of 10 while one of our team members is on a road trip around the country. So far, we’d visited schools in Vermont, Illinois, two in California, and Alabama. This sixth visit took place at the Socrates Academy Charter School in Matthews, NC as he made his way from
Shirley has an extra area within her library designated as a Transformation Space that changes every few weeks. For their next project, Shirley will be challenging her students to build a 9-12 foot wall keyboard using some of the materials she’ll receive from our grant, which include a liter of the Bare Conductive Electric Paint and a Bare Conductive Touch
He’s dropping the cubes off to 10 educators across the country and has already made stops in Burlington, Vermont, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Diego. Yesterday, he made stop No. 5 and visited Jennifer Fischer, who teaches STEAM at the Mary B. Austin Elementary School in Mobile, Alabama!
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Our Merge Cube donation tour continued at the beginning of this week as Eduporium’s Andy made the fourth stop on his road trip. After driving down the entire coast of California, he made it to San Diego on Sunday night. Rumor has it Andy left the world-famous San Diego dog beach, where his dog was having a blast rolling in
Andy is traveling the country on a 74-day road trip, so he brought along some EdTech donations to gift to some teachers thanks to our friends at Merge VR. The latest educator to receive one was Jennifer Nishimoto, a tech coach at the Santa Monica school, which is located just steps from the famous Santa Monica Boulevard.
We’re excited to be able to provide Sharon and her students with some new alternative energy tools to use in their classroom and can’t wait to see how things shake out! Sharon submitted a great application with some wonderful background information on the work she has done to better learn how to teach STEM to her students, which we loved!
We had the chance to deliver our second new Merge Cube in this series of 10 school visits yesterday in the great state of Illinois. For anyone who may not yet have read about this cool initiative, our social media and marketing professional is on an 11-week US road trip. At stop No. 2, we were glad to donate one
Boston’s Museum of Science is located right across the Charles River from us. Since they’re all so focused on science, teaching, and STEM education in particular, we have always been big fans of their work, and our CEO and President, Rick Fredkin, in particular has always found himself intrigued by these experts. Now, he will have a more prominent role
