August 15, 2022
STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Organization Dedicated to Breaking Barriers in STEM

STEM for Women is a student-led organization that provides free opportunities to women who would like to learn more about STEM. The organization aims to break barriers in education and professional areas by encouraging and empowering young girls and teens to be more involved in STEM.

juxtapose.knightlab.com
Digital Learning • Learning Support
Tools to Tell Stories in Innovative Ways

Northwestern University’s Knight Lab comprises a team of designers, developers, students, and educators who are working together to generate new ways to communicate digitally as a means to enhance journalism in the ever-changing digital age.

Digital Learning • Learning Support
Language Building Tools for Children with Autism

STAGES Learning is the authority on autism education, providing award-winning solutions that range from picture card sets and apps to the first—and only—comprehensive curriculum in the field: the “ARIS” Academic Readiness Intervention System. Founded by Angela Nelson in 1997 and dedicated to helping every child thrive, STAGES is trusted by educators and therapists worldwide, anticipating their needs with proven teaching tools that build learning readiness. Easily adaptable, wraparound offerings set STAGES apart, and with development of an innovative new digital platform, it’s the complete destination for those seeking to improve the lives of learners with autism and other cognitive delays.

veative.com
Mobile Learning
Immersive Curriculum-Aligned STEM Content

Veative‘s 3D, virtualaugmented, and mixed reality educational technologies and content enhance learning experiences in K–12 and higher education. The content is adapted to suit all classrooms, curricula, and languages.

linqd-up.com
Funding & Recognition
Program Honoring School Nutrition Professionals

Do you know a Lunchroom Rockstar? If you know someone who makes school nutrition “rock,” LINQ invites you to nominate the Rockstar.

Funding & Recognition
Funds for Budget-Tight Times

GetEdFunding is a grant-finding resource sponsored by CDW•G that is dedicated to helping educators, schools, and other institutions identify the funding they need in budget-tight times.

wikimedia.org
Digital Learning • Learning Support
Interactive Virtual Civics Learning Journey

The International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina, invites teachers and students to take a virtual journey through the spaces of the museum with a senior docent who will bring their encounter to life and engage them in America’s story.

Professional Growth
Videos Redefining Special Education and Student Support

Everyone Included is a series from Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) that features a special education expert who takes viewers into classrooms to look at aspects of special education and ways to successfully integrate it into all classroom settings.

ecotarium.org
STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Interactive Virtual Science Explorations

The EcoTarium offers interactive, educator-led programs aligned to current science standards. Children in prekindergarten through grade 8 can join an EcoTarium educator live on Zoom and engage in science explorations on topics such as Animal Adaptations and Understanding Weather.

Funding & Recognition
International Space Apps Challenge

NASA is inviting coders, entrepreneurs, scientists, designers, storytellers, makers, builders, artists, and technologists to come together on October 1 and 2, in a global hackathon. Over two days, participants from around the world will form in-person and virtual teams to solve challenges using NASA’s open-source data.

shakespeare-vr.library.cmu.edu
Digital Learning • Learning Support
Shakespeare “Karaoke” Theater

To immerse, or not to immerse? Shakespeare’s plays written in the late 1500s and early 1600s have received all kinds of digital makeovers in the 21st century. Two current efforts designed by academics for use in teaching draw on extended reality tools that invite users to actively participate in scenes from works such as Romeo and Juliet.

Funding & Recognition
National Effort to Increase Accessibility and Inclusivity in STEM Fields

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is awarding a total of $39 million to establish four new university-based alliances focused on the preparation and inclusion of individuals from historically underrepresented groups for careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

mikejerowsky.com
Digital Learning • Learning Support
Virtual Reality Tour Enhancing Outdoor Environmental Education

The Camosun Bog 360º Field Trip is a self-directed tour of a bog that rests on the unceded, ancestral territory of the Musqueam people in Pacific Spirit Regional Park, Vancouver, Canada.

Professional Growth
Podcast with In-Depth Science Stories from Around the World

A program of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in the United States, Science Sessions present brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, academy members, and policymakers as they discuss topics relevant to today’s scientific community.

STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Data Analysis Investigations for Young Children

The Oceans of Data Institute began as an initiative of the Learning and Teaching Division at Education Development Center (EDC). Over three years, the institute’s Preschool Data Collection and Analysis project created and tested problem-solving activities for young children.

Professional Growth
Podcast Revealing How Math Drives the World

Carry the Two pulls back the curtain to reveal the mathematical and statistical gears that turn the world. An initiative of the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation, the podcast presents unique perspectives from the fields of mathematics and statistics and uses stories to convey how mathematical research drives the world around us.