Your old vinyl records could be worth THOUSANDS – and these are the most valuable

Posted on www.coventrytelegraph.net, 10th December 2016 High street retailers have now started stocking the old-school disks, as they continue to soar in popularity The vinyl revival shows no signs of slowing down – with plenty looking to buy turntables and record players this Christmas. The retro form of listening to music has enjoyed quite the … continue reading

Community ties earn Gordonvale State High School STEM award

Posted on http://www.cairnspost.com.au, 9th December 2016 FAR Northern schoolchildren are putting a modern twist on ancient Aboriginal traditions under a program that has earned them national recognition. Gordonvale State High School will today receive $10,000 as the winning school in the inaugural Indigenous STEM Education Awards, which celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievements in the … continue reading

$3.9 MILLION TO INSPIRE GIRLS AND WOMEN TO STUDY AND PURSUE CAREERS IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHS

Posted on www.pm.gov.au, 6th December 2016 The Turnbull Government has announced $3.9 million in funding to 24 organisations to rollout projects that will encourage girls and women to study and pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and maths. The funding is the first round of the $8 million Women in STEM and Entrepreneurship grant program under … continue reading

Speeding up STEM education in low decile schools

Posted on nz.educationhq.com, November 21, 2016 Snail’s pace is how Melvin Din sums up the speed at which STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) education is being rolled out at New Zealand’s low decile schools. The Energy and Technology Education Centre manager has had a chance to see what is happening in schools around the country, teaching … continue reading

Arckit inspires young inventors at the Dublin maker 2016

We’ve just come back from Dublin Maker 2016 where we were one of 55 maker stands showing our creations to over 10,000 visitors! We lost count of the number of creative little hands and inventive minds we had gathered around our booth. Many of these budding young inventors stayed for well over an hour at … continue reading

INTERVIEW: UNLEASH YOUR INNER ARCHITECT

Boot Camp interview Damien Murtagh about our new Arckit range Listen to the interview below and find out how Arckit can unleash your inner architect! Arckit inventor Damien Murtagh spoke to technology correspondent Fred Fishkin about what inspired him to develop Arckit and the benefits of using Arckit within education in this live interview exploring … continue reading

Computer Science/STEM Leaders Explain How to Spark and Nurture STEM Interest in Youth

Posted on businesswire.com, 1st November 2016 Jeanine Cook, Students@SC16 Chair from Sandia National Laboratories (Photo: Business Wire) November 01, 2016 10:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time SALT LAKE CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The future demands a large, diverse pool of innovative scientists, engineers and mathematicians who can work together to solve big problems. The working scientists who lead SC16, the … continue reading

Don’t let innovation agenda run out of STEAM

Posted on smh.com.au, October 27 2016 If our Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) report is right that 40 per cent of jobs existing today will be gone within 10 years, children now in primary school need an education that prepares them for a very different future. One response is a greater emphasis on STEM (science, … continue reading

Don’t let innovation agenda run out of STEAM

Posted on smh.com.au, October 27 2016 If our Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) report is right that 40 per cent of jobs existing today will be gone within 10 years, children now in primary school need an education that prepares them for a very different future. One response is a greater emphasis on STEM (science, … continue reading

This modular drone will teach children how to code the fun way

Posted on Digital Trends, October 24, 2016 It’s not fair: back when I was a kindergarten student, we learned about coding using a computer that looked prehistoric even by early 1990s standards, and which ran educational programs so archaic it may actually have been a purposeful attempt to drive people away from tech. Jump forward to … continue reading