8 Upcoming Education Webinars free | Advanced Career

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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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Classroom Spotlight: STEM Project Based Learning in Action

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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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Students Learning STEM – Creating a Braking System

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Hello all! It’s been awhile since we’ve posted about fischertechnik, so let me pick up where we left off in November.  Last time around I was telling you about the students learning STEM at Westfield Vocational Technical High School in MA, and how they were beginning their first hands-on project using the fischertechnik STEM Lab Program. As I mentioned previously, … Read More

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Why Art is a Key Element of Game Design & STEM Education

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Back in 2012, I wrote a blog post talking about how Game Design fits in with STEM Education. I still use those same talking points when I deliver webinars on the subject. Really, none of that has changed. Game Design is still heavily involved in every aspect of STEM education. However, I left out a very important part of Game … Read More

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The Infinity Project Announces Free STEM Education Webinar

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The Infinity Project is offering a free STEM education webinar on January 16th. If you aren't familiar with the Infinity Project, it is a powerful engineering STEM education program that prepare students for futures in the field of engineering. Created by team of world-class researchers, professional engineers, University faculty and secondary educators. The Infinity Project provides dynamic STEM curriculum, classroom … Read More

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STEM in Action: Westfield Vocational Technical High School

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Here’s a look at how teacher Dave Roberts and the students at Westfield Vocational Technical High School in Westfield, MA are progressing with the fischertechnik STEM Lab Program. When we last visited them, the students had just started to familiarize themselves with the fischertechnik construction system itself. Now, just a few weeks later, they have already completed the initial unit … Read More

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Westfield Vocational Technical selected as a model school STEM Program

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In case you missed the big news that was all over the wire services and the internet a week or so back, Studica recently selected Westfield Vocational Technical High School to act as a model school for the fischertechnik STEM Lab Program. As you probably know from our past blog postings, the fischertechnik STEM Lab Program incorporates the state-of-the-art fischertechnik … Read More

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Making PLC (Programmable Logic Control) Accessible to Students

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Studica Ltd, has partnered with Burton Electro-Technical to create a new way to teach Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) and Automation to Secondary and Post-Secondary students. Bringing PLC into the Classroom Norman Burton of Burton Electro-Technical has just completed an installation for a University in Ontario which included PLC integration with the fischertechnik 3D Robot and the fischertechnik Indexed Line.  These … Read More

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