Students are invited to enter the annual National STEM Video Game Challenge, and organizers are hoping school librarians will help mentor and support kids throughout the process.
STEM Video Game Challenge Encourages Librarians to Mentor Students
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Lego Celebrates 15th Year of Mindstorms Robots With New EV3 Platform
By on January 9, 2013 Leave a Comment
The Lego Group has unveiled Lego Mindstorms EV3, a radically redesigned upgrade to its popular robotics platform that’s designed to introduce a new generation of tech-savvy kids to the world of robot building and programming. Lego announced the new platform earlier this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, timed to the 15th anniversary of the original Mindstorms debut.
Commentary: Dell Needs a Clue. Here’s One.
By on May 17, 2012 Leave a Comment
The recent ugliness in Copenhagen in which a misogynistic speaker was hired by Dell to address a company summit there hasn’t received much coverage in the general press and that’s too bad.
Cool Links: Highlights from the National Art Education Conference
By on March 9, 2012 2 Comments
School librarian Melissa Techman attended NAEA in New York and gleaned some great art-infused ideas for the classroom and media center
Resource Pick: The Encyclopedia of Life
By on October 30, 2011 1 Comment
Free, online resource the Encyclopedia of Life has been redesigned and vastly expanded to offer 700,000 pages on individual species, up from the 30,000 at EOL’s 2008 launch.
