Studica Ltd., our Canadian office, completed another CAMaster Stinger I install recently for a school in Ontario. The flexibility and functionality of the Stinger line of CNC Routers combined with their excellent price has made CAMaster very popular with Canadian Schools. Studica currently offers CNC Routers in Canada only. Robust CNC Router The Stinger I is an exceptionally robust CNC … Read More
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Over 5,295,000 students currently use SumDog to take educational games that help them learn about math, reading and writing. Teachers have full control over the content and lessons they learn. SumDog has a powerful learning engine that can tailor questions to meet individual student needs. It is also intuitive and easy to set up and monitor your students work. SumDog … Read More
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How does interactive 3d technology and Leonar3Do help in education? The one word answer is the “WOW-effect”. 3D visualized curriculum piques students’ interest. Full engagement from students makes them thinkbetter. The engagement can be further increased with the possibility of interaction with the digital curriculum. “Digital” is an important keyword. Why? Because digitization allows us to visualize anything in the virtual … Read More
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Lumion is a powerful rendering program for Architectural Visualization. We have written several articles about Lumion here on our blog. This article is going to detail what I think is the best workflow of bringing your Revit model into Lumion. As with any program, there are many ways you can accomplish something. However, I had to recently do a demonstration … Read More
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Pre-order Unity 5 Unity announced the impending release of Unity 5 at the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco. This news comes 16 months a after the release of Unity 4. In typical Unity fashion, Unity 5 will improve upon its predecessor in many ways. It comes as no surprise that Unity 5 improves upon the easy-to-use, affordable game engine … Read More
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With the advent of affordable 3d printers like the DaVinci 1.0 (costs less than $500 in the USA), Studica wanted to see how this technology can best benefit education. We are always looking for ways to help our education customers marry new technologies with their teaching goals to help create a stronger learning experience for students. We knew that with this new level … Read More
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Explore Advanced Career (AC) pathway programs – new types of career-technical curricula that better prepare high school students for more options. AC pathway programs provide a rigorous and relevant blend of technical and academic skills in authentic projects that engage students in preparing for postsecondary options and careers. High Schools That Work, a part of the Southern Regional Education Board … Read More
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In our last fischertechnik blog entry, we looked in at the students at Westfield Vocational Technical School in Westfield, MA, as they worked through their initial design challenge as part of the fischertechnik STEM Lab Program, that of creating a braking system for a racing bike. We shared photos of some of the prototypes they created, as well as excerpts … Read More
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I recently had the opportunity to visit the National Instruments headquarters in Austin, Texas. While I was there, I was shown a demonstration of their myRIO Data Acquisition device. The myRIO basically takes the NI myDAQ to the next level. It has a built-in processor as well as its own memory so it can meet the demands of higher-end projects. … Read More
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As a sweet way to celebrate their one year anniversary Sumdog is allowing everyone to access Sumdog Reading free from February 10th until Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14 – still looking for Sweet Deals?). If you haven’t heard of Sumdog, they offer a ton of educational games to for teachers to use to help motivate their students to learn math and reading. … Read More
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