Interesting STEM News from K12Lab for Education

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A high school robotics class teamed up with a regional health care clinic and together they’ve created a Knee Brace Simulator. Utilizing LabVIEW for Education and the NI myDAQ. They developed a solution for keeping weight off the knee during recovery. Here’s a video with Evan Reyier, Rita Collier and Dr. Larry Kravitz explaining how it was done.

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Exploring the Fourier NovaScope

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Fourier Education has produced a wide range of Data Logging tools, Sensors, and Experiments that test, drive, and influence the learning of our students in many positive ways. With the wide range of use of the Fourier Data Loggers, it is not surprising that Fourier would be able to produce a tool as useful and as easy to use as the Fourier NovaScope.

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Wacom’s New Bamboo Line Up to Capture Your Imagination

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The new Wacom Bamboo line-up is based on you. The company has tried to focus the products on what the user is looking to do with them. You may be looking to edit photos, communicate visually with diagrams or sketches or maybe you want to be artistic, to paint, animate or draw. Wacom has designed the new Bamboo tablets with your specific interests in mind.

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Animation Contest from Reallusion

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The task is to animate everyday objects using CrazyTalk. Learn more and get started! This contest ends on October 31st. Prizes include the Sony 220GB HD Camcorder with Projector, iPad2, XBox 360, Wacom tablets and many more.

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The Future of STEM

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STEM is one of the fastest-growing job markets in the United States. Not only is it a huge job market, but it’s a cutting edge industry. STEM helps push scientific innovation, technological progress, medical advancements, and new inventions.

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Using fischertechnik in Your Classroom—Part 2:

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While the above example relates to an engineering classroom, a similar challenge could be posed to students using any of the other fischertechnik sets. Students working with, for example, the da Vinci Machines set might be asked how an improvement could be made to his original design of the file cutting machine which might improve the safety of use, or students using the Oeco Tech and Hydro Cell kits

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Meet the NEW LabVIEW for Education

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LabVIEW has a full range of data collection and control devices for science and engineering applications. With the hands-on training of the myDAQ hardware incorporated with LabVIEW, the engineering experience for the student will be the same as a professional where they will use the same tools and work flow.

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