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Big News for STEM Education Funding | Six Reasons to Get Excited
US Commits $3.1 Billion for STEM Education Funding What does this commitment to STEM Education funding mean for students? If you’re an educator or a well informed citizen, you’ve probably heard the news about the Obama Administration committing a significant amount of … Continue reading
Posted in Brands, Educational Resources, STEM Education
Tagged Education, educational programs, grants, STEM, STEM education funding, students
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What is Gamification?
Gamification design, as loosely defined by Wikipedia, is the use of game thinking and game mechanics in a non-game context in order to engage users and solve problems. In a nutshell, it is the application of game design methodology in disciplines outside … Continue reading
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Tagged Autodesk, business gamification, examples of gamification, gamification, Revit, Unity 3D
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Empowering STEM Teaching for Inspiration & Success
Improving STEM Teaching If we want to succeed in our efforts to create a more competitive workforce, STEM teaching is a pillar of our success. Google has recently announced its support for the national STEM Teacher Corps. With the rise in importance … Continue reading
How to Secure Grants for Education
The Educator’s Dilemma: Securing Grants for Education to Get Funding for your Students As you well know, we are currently in a period of major education changes. Teachers and administrators are deeply concerned with finding ways to address the new … Continue reading
Career Choices for STEM
Many years ago, long before my time at Studica, I worked with a non-profit, dedicated to assisting displaced, out-of-work individuals and those new to the work world to identify new career choices. I was amazed to learn of the education, … Continue reading
New Resource for Learning Unity 3D
Unity Technologies has just launched Unity Learn an amazing all-all-in one resource for helping you master Unity 3D. It includes tutorials, training, articles and even support. Plus you will find high quality assets that will help teach and inspire you. … Continue reading
New fischertechnik Robotics Competition Lab
fischertechnik Robotics Competition Lab is now an approved platform in the Skills British Columbia 2013 Competition.The New fischertechnik Robotics Competition Lab is now being used in another Provincial Skills competition. This complete kit offers Teachers the ability to deliver hands … Continue reading
Exporting 3D Models as 2D Sprites
There was a comment on our blog recently that asked whether or not it’s possible to use a 3D Design package like the Autodesk Maya 3D Animation software to create 2D Animations. This is entirely possible and the workflow is … Continue reading
Posted in Autodesk, Brands, Educational Resources, Game Development Tools, GameSalad, Maya
Tagged 2d animation, 2d game engine, 3d modeling, 3ds Max, animate, Autodesk, Blender, export, game development, gamesalad, Maya, video games
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National Instruments is Looking for Your Sweet Apps
Looking to share your ideas and innovations with someone?! Look no further than the National Instruments Developer Zone. Users can blog about which NI products they use in the creation of unique application solutions. Also, see what others are developing … Continue reading
Posted in Contests, Educational Resources, National Instruments
Tagged application, developer, LabVIEW, myDAQ, National Instruments
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STEM Education Webinar Announcement
If you are looking to engage your students in STEM you’ve come to the right place! We are presenting a webinar that will talk about solutions for STEM education that are designed to engage your students with hands-on, project based … Continue reading
Posted in Brands, Educational Resources, STEM Education, Webinars
Tagged curriculum, Education, educational curriculum, fischertechnik, Fischertechnik Curriculum, hands-on, high school program, mechanics, middle school program, National Standards of Learning, pneumatics, project-based learning, renewable energies, robotics, STEM, stem education, teacher resources, Tom White, webinar
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