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USA Today
Ivanka Trump will be in Detroit, joining Quicken Loans Chairman Dan Gilbert to promote STEM education and a significant pledge from the private sector to boost computer science education. The White House announced her visit on the same day President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum that directs Betsy DeVos, the U.S. Secretary of Education, to steer $200 million in funding Congress has already approved to expand STEM and computer science education in U.S. schools. Ivanka Trump said too many of the nation's K-12 and postsecondary schools lack access to high-quality STEM education.
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eSchool News
The benefits of hands-on, active learning are firmly established, yet a lot of difference exists between being able to touch something and being able to create something. The latter allows students to practice skills in demand in the modern economy. This past June, the exhibitor floor at the 2017 ISTE Conference provided an inspiring snapshot for the rise of skills-based learning options and environments across the American educational landscape. Educators and schools are realizing they need to provide more experiential learning experiences for the next generation of makers. One way is through learning environments called "makerspaces."
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Wonder Workshop invites teams aged 6-8 and 9-12 to compete in the Wonder League Robotics Competition. Three rounds of missions require teams to design solutions to real-world science and technology challenges by programming Dash & Dot. Teams who become eligible for the Invitational Round compete for a $5,000 STEM-grant Grand Prize!
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The Hill
The Trump administration will announce in Detroit that Facebook, Google, Microsoft and other companies are committing over $300 million towards computer science education programs over the next five years. The president's daughter and adviser, Ivanka Trump, will attend an event in the city championing technical training for high skilled jobs in computer science and engineering.Officials from Lockheed Martin, Quicken Loans and the Internet Association, a trade group representing major tech firms, which coordinated the $300 million donations, are also to attend.
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Education Week
The country's computer-science teachers, students and supporters received encouragement from an unexpected source yesterday. Former President Barack Obama, who prides himself on being the first commander-in-chief to write a line of computer code, joined a conference call organized by the CSforAll Consortium.
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NewCo Shift
Hadi Partovi and his family fled revolution in Iran, landing in the United States when he was just six years old. In his basement as a young immigrant, Partovi learned to code. This wasn't as incongruous as it sounded — before leaving Iran, Partovi's father worked at the country's main technology university, and he bought his kids a Commodore 64 and taught them programming. These coding skills became the foundation for a successful career in technology, culminating in roles at Microsoft, Facebook, and many other high-flying tech companies.
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Los Angeles Times
It is often said that women are absent from the sciences. But this is not true. Not anymore. Although a gender gap remains in the sciences overall, the gap is closing. Women are now more likely than men to earn undergraduate degrees in biology, and they are almost as likely as men to earn undergraduate degrees in chemistry and math. There are, however, several scientific disciplines that women are still much less likely than men to choose to study: computer science, engineering and physics.
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UGA
In today's increasingly technological world, students — especially young girls — who develop coding skills later rather than earlier in life are often less motivated to work in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, further contributing to the "engineering gap" between men and women. But thanks to a $2.1 million study funded by the National Science Foundation, the UGA College of Engineering and the UGA College of Education will develop a model course that prepares elementary school teachers to more efficiently teach mathematics, science and coding using interdisciplinary approaches, which may help increase student motivation in STEM fields of study.
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EdSurge
Remember the Oregon Trail? Of course you do, it's the game the internet won’t let you forget. Thirty-two years after the first full-color graphic version hit the Apple II, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt — the current owner of the Oregon Trail franchise — is teaming up with Microsoft on a new world that ports many of the landmarks and features of the original game into Minecraft. Announced in a Microsoft blog post, the new world, called The Oregon Trail Experience, is exclusive to Minecraft: Education Edition, the version that replaced the popular MinecraftEdu late last year. Microsoft acquired Minecraft from Swedish game developer Mojang in 2014.
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