Brian Niekamp, Technology Education Teacher at Hastings Middle School in Upper Arlington City Schools created a slide presentation on [...]

Engineer Your Life is a website guide to engineering careers for high school girls. Their goal is to inspire girls to get involved in engineering by showing how other women are designing pollution controls to preserve the environment, life-saving medical equipment, or low-cost building materials for fighting global poverty.
If you have a student who you [...]

There is a special section of iTunes (called iTunes U) where schools can create custom iTunes Pages where they upload podcasts and videos that give the public a look into that school’s culture. Some examples from Carnegie Mellon’s iTunes U Page include commencement speeches, an interview with Bill Gates, inspiring podcasts from professors, and a [...]

This idea/project/game is almost too hard to describe in a quick little blog. If you want to travel to space via an elevator someday, and are interested in an engineering competition that is dedicated to building that elevator, visit The Space Elevator Games Website!
Their goal is to infect the engineering and science community with a [...]

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“I get bored easily. Construction kits just couldn’t hold my interest. So I invented an entirely new system that gives anyone the freedom to build, battle, and race anything you can imagine. I call it MINDS-i.” —Mike Marzetta, MINDS-i Inventor
We gave MINDS-i The Brain Robotic Controller and look what they created!
Using [...]

For purposes of engineering design and modeling, the absolute best system we have ever worked with is fischertechnik®, a German manipulative that has been around for over 40 years and is used throughout the world for industrial modeling, university engineering courses, and K-12 science and technology activities.

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Fischertechnik elements are the design tool of choice [...]

Podcast of Little Red Riding Hood
Ms. Comstock’s 5th period English 10 Class at the Boise Language Academy is using the PCS Digital Podcasting Lab to assist them in learning English.
Listen to their recording of their retelling of Little Red Riding Hood as performed over the loudspeaker for the entire school.

“The use of this [...]

As educators we know that project based learning naturally enables students to simultaneously apply concepts at a higher level of thinking, but it also applies to every age and grade level.  The key to using project-based learning is being able to recognize where students are in reference to their skill development and mastery.  This knowledge [...]