Education Week is hosting a free webinar on how innovation and technology can improve student learning. The event will take place Tuesday, May 8, 2012, 3 to 4 p.m. ET.
See below for details of the webinar provided by Education Week.
Districts and schools across the country are leveraging digital technology to deliver individualized [...]
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We are super excited about the upcoming 2012 Connecticut Invention Convention (CIC). The final event program is being held on Saturday, April 28 and will be on the UConn Campus. Complete details can be found here.
This is a big event for us for a number of reasons.
The first being that everyone here at Why Science places a tremendous value on the role of events like this within the large “edu-ecosystem”. Science fairs, technology contests and invention conventions are wonderful opportunities for us all to celebrate the best in our field.
Continue Reading →“When I am not engaged, it is because the work is not intellectually engaging.” – HSSSE 2009 Student Respondent
The most recent results from the High School Survey of Student Engagement show that only two percent of students surveyed said they’d never been bored in school. Students who have thought about [...]
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Google is currently running a Google Science Fair 2012 in coordination a number of very well respected brands.
Needless to say, as we are a STEM Education Technology Company, we are also big fans of science fairs. In fact we try to write about science fairs often in large part because we hope that our simple act of shinning a bright light on these amazing events will in fact encourage even greater participation in subsequent science fairs.
Continue Reading →Recently computer manufacturer Lenovo released the results of a global survey called “2011 Global Student Science and Technology Outlook” where they asked students (4,800 of them) from seven different nations how they felt about science and technology and space exploration.
Lenovo and Text 100 have commissioned this study in order explore student attitudes [...]
Continue Reading →Why Science is a technology based STEM education company, so for us SCIENCE FAIRS ARE A REALLY BIG DEAL! With that in mind we have put together a list of some of the more well known New England area state science fairs:
Connecticut Science Fair [...]
Continue Reading →A long long time ago, Sir Isaac Newton (1643 – 1727) changed our understanding of the Universe by enumerating his Three Laws of Motion. What are Newton’s Laws of Motion? What do they mean? Can you prove Newton’s Laws? You can explore answers to these questions with Jameson Kief’s riveting account of his experience with [...]
Continue Reading →WHY SCIENCE is committed to encouraging excellence in all areas of STEM fields. One such area is sustaining long term student interest and engagement in science. To that end, WHY SCIENCE will be sharing science achievement stories, written by students, with you. The first story in this series, “Greener World”, is written by Sean Hackett, [...]
Continue Reading →Congratulations to all winners of the 63rd annual Connecticut Science Fair! Nearly 500 students participated in this year’s event. Of those, an estimated 150 students qualified as finalists. This year, Quinnipiac University provided two finalists with a four-year, $20,000 scholarship to the university. One of the awardees was Sarah E. Harkins, seventh grade student at [...]
Continue Reading →Each year when I volunteer to serve as a judge in a science fair, I am always happy to interact with the many talented young people out there ready to participate in exciting discovery and innovation that science has to offer.
Students who participate in science fairs increase their understanding of science and problem solving. [...]
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