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Friday Five – January 22, 2016
Five featured articles about what’s trending in STEM education: The president wants every student to learn computer science. How would that work? by Anya Kamenetz President Obama used his final State...
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5 Tips to Make Your STEM Classroom More Efficient
STEM classrooms are a great place for students to engage in real-world problem solving, and a great place to learn about important concepts in science, technology, engineering, and math, along with...
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Article: Robotic Competition Moves into Virtual World
The NWF Daily News in North West Florida published an article highlighting our Robot Virtual World competitions, focusing on our newest competition, the virtual Mini-Urban Challenge. The article talks...
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Friday Five – January 29, 2016
Five featured articles about what’s trending in STEM education: Practical Ways to Develop Students’ Mathematical Reasoning by Katrina Schwartz Traditional math class was all about solving problem sets...
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Latest High Scores for our VEX Virtual Programming Skills Challenges!
As some of you may know, we along with VEX Robotics and the REC Foundation have an exciting competition going on right now with the VEX and VEX IQ Programming Skills Challenges for Robot Virtual...
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Friday Five – February 5, 2016
Five featured articles about what’s trending in STEM education: Obama Wants $4B to Help Students Learn Computer Science by the Associated Press President Barack Obama said Saturday he will ask Congress...
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Explore National Robotics Week with Robot Virtual Worlds
To help celebrate National Robotics Week, we’ve created a FREE, online version of our Robot Virtual Worlds software, which you can use in your classroom to teach students about robotics and...
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Our 10 Favorite Robots of All Time
To celebrate National Robotics Week, we’ve decided to list 10 of our favorite robots of all time! R2D2 – There are so many reasons to love R2D2 that it’s hard to know where to start. He’s cute,...
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Congrats to our VEX Virtual Programming Challenge Winners!
We are very excited to officially announce the winners of our VEX Virtual Programming Skills Challenge for both VEX EDR and VEX IQ! Winners of each competition received an invitation for their team to...
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Register for a VEX Summer Training Course Today!
Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Academy has a great offering of certified technology training scheduled for VEX this summer, both online and on-site in Pittsburgh, PA! Register for one of their ROBOTC VEX...
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STEM Superheroes: Meet The Resolvers!
This week, our Motion Graphics Artist, Linda Heffler writes a guest blog about how she and her team created the STEM superhero characters for our computer science curriculum. Read Linda’s blog to meet...
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Innovation and Iteration: Student and Teacher Feedback
A curriculum that is focused on Big Ideas helps avoid the two sins of curriculum development: a focus on activities and an emphasis on covering as much content as possible. Once the Big Ideas are...
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Meet Socket, Our Newest Robot Friend!
This week, Michelle Johnson, our Digital Artist, writes a guest blog about how she created the new robot character for our robotics curriculum. Read Michelle’s blog to find out how Socket, our favorite...
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Innovation and Iteration: Creating a Quality Curriculum
There is a lot of buzz around computer science education these days, and that is a good thing. However, as we see more and more demand for computer science curriculum in our classrooms, it is important...
View ArticleCheck Out Robomatter’s Interview Segment on “Our Region’s Business”
Robomatter’s Tim Friez and Jason McKenna were interviewed for “Our Region’s Business” to discuss who we are and what we’re currently up to in the STEM Ed field. Dr. Daniel Castagna from the West...
View ArticleCool Project: VEX IQ Robot Chicken
VEX IQ Super User, Sebastian Trella, created a very cool project for this year’s VEX Worlds, the VEX IQ Robot Chicken! Sebastian says, “The program to make it move is really easy and a great start for...
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CS Careers: Digital Forensics
Nowadays, a good majority of the world is run by computers. They have made our lives and many jobs easier. However, because of this increase in the use of computer technology in most areas, everything...
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Organizing a Robotics Classroom
Getting your classroom organized for the beginning of the school year is an arduous task for even the most experienced teacher. It can be even more demanding for those that teach robotics. You’ve got...
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Exciting News with ROBOTC for VEX Robotics 4.55!
The ROBOTC Development Team has a brand new update for you, ROBOTC 4.55! A full list of changes and improvements appear below. But we have BIG NEWS to share first… We are excited to announce that the...
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CS Careers: Audio Engineer
Think about your favorite song … professional musicians write, compose, and perform it, but did you know that most songs have another key person working on it to make sure it sounds as perfect as...
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