Lessons from the pandemic: Top STEM educators offer their insights on the future of learning
Kim Williams, science department head at Cougar Mountain Middle School, providing a lesson in genetics during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Bethel School District Photo via Twitter) The pandemic…
NASA gives a lift to 57 high-flying student experiments, including one from the Seattle area
NASA launches a Raven Aerostar high-altitude balloon. (NASA Photo / Bill Rodman) NASA has chosen 57 winning teams — including a team from Interlake High School in…
Amazon donates $2.2M to fund helping students in Seattle and Bellevue afford basic needs
(BigStock Photo) Amazon is donating $2.2 million to help students from underserved communities in Seattle and Bellevue, Wash., afford basic necessities, the company announced Tuesday. Amazon first…
Amazon donates $1M in STEM education collaboration with Seattle’s Pacific Science Center
(Pacific Science Center Photo) Seattle’s Pacific Science Center is teaming with the Amazon Future Engineer program to deliver more science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) interactive education programming…
Code.org bands together with Coldplay to get kids dancing and coding via #codeplay contest
Seattle based mostly laptop schooling nonprofit Code.org is teaming with the British rock band Coldplay for a contest aimed toward inspiring extra kids to study coding via…
Two Seattle-area students are finalists in NASA design contest for lunar dirt-digging robots
Project Stardust by Ke “Max” Jiang, left, and Terebro, by Mason Lysaght. (Lunabotics Images) Dig this — two Seattle-area students were semifinalists in a national contest run by…
Ungrading? Letting kids teach IT? GeekWire Award-winning STEM teachers share innovative strategies
The GeekWire Awards’ STEM Educator of the Year honorees, from left to right: Devina Khan, instructional designer at the West Valley Innovation Center; Stephanie Winslow, teacher at…
NFL star Bobby Wagner helps kids get the tech exposure that shaped his life outside football
Former Seattle Seahawks star Bobby Wagner, who has since moved on to the Los Angeles Rams, during a stop at Step, a financial services company, on his…