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"The Solara is intended to lift a payload to 20,000 meters and then keep it there for five years, running entirely on solar power. It functions a bit like a satellite, except substantially cheaper and much more versatile. And, you can get it back when you're done."

"wearable computing and prevention-through-design to develop a practical sensing and alarm system that can tell when a worker's blood oxygen level is cratering and prevent carbon monoxide poisoning. The result was a standard construction hard-hat modified to include a non-invasive blood-oxygen monitor."

"Every teacher should have a class website to keep students and parents up-to-date. Even more important is keeping this website updated regularly - ideally on a daily or weekly basis. But don't worry about updating just yet, there are tips at the end on how to make the regular updates easily possible!"

"The Naked Scientists are a media-savvy group of physicians and researchers from Cambridge University who use radio, live lectures, and the Internet to strip science down to its bare essentials, and promote it to the general public. Their award winning BBC weekly radio programme, The Naked Scientists, reaches a potential audience of 6 million listeners across the east of England, and also has an international following on the web."

"Dropbox can also be a useful tool in managing student projects and presentations. In my classes students use Dropbox to submit the visual components of class presentations, for instance. It's a huge time saver, as it otherwise takes several minutes for students to log in/out of their school accounts to access presentations. If you don't have individual accounts, you'll quickly find ways to let Dropbox help you work around that issue."

"nearly 1,000 schools and uncovered a replicable design for successfully introducing technology into the classroom, improving student performance, and yielding cost benefits."

"There are many questions you can ask yourself, and many things to look for when you are considering the relevance of web sites."

"apps where the students are still presenters but do so digitally. This means they can share the presentation, embed it in the digital portfolio and even let mum and dad see their work. Some of these even allow you to create an avatar or use a photo and then import it into the app to have your students present as themselves."

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"science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) software that bridges the gap between the excitement of gaming and the fundamentals of curriculum-based learning. We are an extremely passionate educational software company committed to one mission: creating relevant, exciting and useful educational software with the same level of quality found in entertainment titles. Our newest product, Time Engineers, teaches engineering, science, and math without leaving the fun of gaming behind. Students travel in a cool time machine to three different time periods and encounter typical engineering problems to be solved in order to build pyramids, irrigate farm land, command a WWII submarine, raise and lower medieval drawbridges, and much more."

"program combines geometry with an Introduction to Engineering and Design in a freshman-year class that all New Tech ninth-graders must take. - combination gives students a way to apply their geometry knowledge to a real-world field so they can better understand its importance in a possible, eventual career. - second year, which combines Algebra 2 with Principles of Engineering,"

"The Palauan jellyfish, Mastigias. The researchers placed green fluorescent dye upstream of the animal body. As the animal continued to swim, it interacted with the dye volume and pulled a volume of dye along with it. This volume of fluid moving with the animal is drift (first identified by Sir Charles Darwin, the grandson of the Origin of Species author)."

"get students collaborating successfully and productively with one another. Check out these great tools for electronic student collaboration…"

"Many Bay Area engineers also grew up competing in the First Lego League, which also launched in 1998 with 200 teams. Since then the league has expanded - last year more than 280,000 children around the world, ages 6-18, participated."

"it was probably an engineer who created the wheel, and you know an engineer was instrumental in erecting the Pyramids. Unfortunately, no record exists of stone age engineers, but here is a list of 10 Engineers Who Changed the Course of History."

"job sites that can help you start a successful career in engineering."

" new iPad pilot needs to start somewhere. The list below isn't necessarily our 10 favorite apps, but rather the ones we see in use most often, and are worth considering for any pilot's tablet:"

"Edheads is an online educational resource that provides free science and math games and activities that promote critical thinking. Choose from Simple Machines, Virtual Knee Surgery or Stem Cell Heart Repair, among others. All activities meet state and national standards."