Free ZUNI Access for Educators and Families

An Arkansas based educational technology company, ZUNI Learning Tree (ZUNI), is offering FREE access to its platform for individual teachers and families.

Teachers, students and families…  Don’t spend countless hours searching the internet for quality educational resources, ZUNI Learning Tree has already organized everything for you!  ZUNI links to free and open educational resources designed to support classroom instruction, build a love of learning in the home, and ignite learning movements.  You’ll find 1,000s of high quality resources for literacy, math, science, social studies, coding, STEM, and more at your fingertips.

Signup for FREE today to start making valuable connections that will inspire everyone to dream, learn, grow, and do together!

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Grant Opportunity for K-12 Robotics

VEX Robotics has recently released two additions to its robotics repertoire. VEX 123 and VEX GO now round out the VEX products providing schools the opportunity to provide K-12 aligned curriculum and products to support STEM education in the classroom. Each grade band product has free curriculum to be used in the classroom, after-school programs, or in out-of-school settings. If you or your organization is interested in an opportunity to be a part of a grant providing free products and curriculum, then please complete the form:

https://forms.gle/o9QVZjq4Xr2vioSh8

NEW! Learning Blade!

Learning Blade introduces the student to STEM technologies and career opportunities through an entertaining game-based format. In this system, the student pursues engaging missions that solve a problem such as helping an injured dolphin, building an orphanage after a major earthquake, or solving energy and transportation needs in a new city. Students can select missions from our ever-growing library. https://bit.ly/2Cmzds7

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NCSM Position Papers

NCSM Recently wrote papers on the importance of Computer Science and Math in STEM. Here they are below.

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Engineering Summer Camps at U of A

The University of Arkansas College of Engineering is offering Engineering Summer Camps for students in 1st through 11th grade. These camps include everything from a FIRST® LEGO® League, Jr. camp for the youngest students to the immersive Engineering Summer Academy experience for high school students. In addition to camps on the UA campus, programs for 5th – 8th  graders are also offered in Batesville, Bentonville, Blytheville, and Camden.

http://engineering-camps.uark.edu/

Learning Blade is a Success!

Governor Hutchinson’s STEM career awareness initiative is a success!  Teachers across Arkansas have embraced Learning Blade for STEM and Career Awareness. More than 500 schools have registered for Learning Blade, an online STEM career awareness program, that offers over 400 interdisciplinary STEM lessons aligned to middle school standards. Students in Arkansas completed over 240,000 online STEM lessons this year alone.  Learn more – read the year one report.   Get trained – contact us at [email protected] to find out our schedule this summer. Register your schools for a free account at www.learningblade.com/ar

Scott Charter School Students Create ‘Out of this World’ Museum

KATV has a video and nice article on the amazing job that students in the Scott Charter School’s STEM program did in creating an astronomy museum.

SCOTT (KATV) — Schools across the country are fighting for funding for science, technology, and math programs, but one Arkansas school is proving you don’t need a big budget to teach big concepts.

Dr. Constance Meadors meets with a dozen students an hour a day after classes, as part of Scott Charter School’s STEM program. This year, the group wanted to inspire kids outside the program, so they set about creating a museum. They had no funding – so they built their own equipment and asked for loans from universities.

Walking into the Scott Charter School Astronomy Museum, you might think these astronomy exhibits were put together by high schoolers or even college students. But this museum is the brain child of 3rd through 6th graders and their teacher.

View more at http://katv.com/news/local/scott-charter-school-students-create-out-of-this-world