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Texas Leads in Making Youth Sports Safer from Concussions
by Sandra Chapman | Oct 29, 2016
Since 2010, we have gotten much better at recognizing, detecting, treating, and working to restore the brain after injury.
by Rachel Hawkins |
Oct 28, 2016
The 220,000-square-foot building will use a research lab neighborhoods design to foster more collaboration between disciplines.
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by Nicholas Sakelaris |
Oct 20, 2016
Dan Patrick was in Dallas to talk about education in Texas at the Dallas Regional Chamber luncheon.
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by Rachel Hawkins |
Oct 20, 2016
The fashion accessories company donates half of its profits to groups promoting girls' education in India.
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STEM vs. STEAM: Summit Attendees State Preference
by Rachel Hawkins | Oct 17, 2016
Sanjiv Yajnik believes that the ongoing debate between Science,Technology, Engineering, and Math education and Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math education has come to an end.
It seems that North Texas business leaders and educators attending last week’s CCBA summit have come to a consensus: the STEAM method is more beneficial to workers and students than the STEM method. ...
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by Rachel Hawkins |
Oct 13, 2016
Fort Worth Museum of Science and History is celebrating National Chemistry Week with hands-on activities.
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by Nealie Sanchez |
Sep 27, 2016
A new humanoid robot, named Jett, with African-American likeness, is designed to increase minority student participation in STEM courses.
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by Rachel Hawkins |
Sep 16, 2016
A program called Neighbor Up is created in order to help young adults receive education about job training.
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UTD’s Launchpad: Revving Startups Outside the Classroom
by Jeremy Vickers | May 18, 2016
University of Texas at Dallas Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship hosts the 10 week program, LaunchPad, providing students the lean startup environment to get their business concept off the ground.
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by Patrick Kobler |
Apr 15, 2016
A DFW startup is helping get students the help they need to improve in school.
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by Patrick Kobler |
Mar 22, 2016
Headquartered in Plano, Nepris aims to inspire a new generation of leaders for the fields of science, technology, engineering, math, and the arts (STEAM).
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by Patrick Kobler |
Mar 22, 2016
Sabari Raja talks about where the idea for Nepris came from, how DFW helped the company grow, and what’s next for the new company.
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In the early ‘90s, Texas Instruments Foundation had a problem. Simply put, the young children in their beneficiary Head Start programs weren’t ready for school. The kids didn’t perform well in kindergarten testing and showed a distinct lack of “academic readiness.”
LEAP Into School Rekindles Program’s Success
by Tara Nieuwesteeg | Feb 25, 2016
In the early ‘90s, Texas Instruments Foundation had a problem. Simply put, the young children in their beneficiary Head Start programs weren’t ready for school. The kids didn’t perform well in kindergarten testing and showed a distinct lack of “academic readiness.”
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 23, 2016
When the question is, “What’s in a name?” the answer can be unclear if the name is Tier One.
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by Patrick Kobler |
Feb 11, 2016
The living roof project is a solution, providing McKinney Boyd’s engineering club the opportunity for a hands on approach to learning –- one that puts classroom concepts into engaged learning with the community. The project has also given the young scholars exposure to professional engineers and paved inroads to future careers in the STEM fields.
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by Melanie Ferguson |
Feb 10, 2016
Written in 1985, the essays in "Imagining Dallas" evoked images of the city’s formation and evolution, its good ol’ myths as well as possible futures for the ever-aspirational Dallas, Texas. Leaders from a variety of disciplines, including Wick Allison, James Pratt, Robert Sardello, and Dr. Gail Thomas, contributed to the thoughtful book but it is the great educator Dr. Louise Cowan’s chapter that informed my perception of Dallas with a new civic sense of education and responsibility.
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