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Education

University of Washington announces campaign to raise $5 billion by 2020, in part to fuel STEM education

The University of Washington announced today an ambitious effort to raise $5 billion in philanthropic donations by 2020, with much… Read More

Brooke Owens on zero-G flight

Brooke Owens Fellowships will boost women in aerospace (and we’re helping)

Space industry pioneer Brooke Owens didn’t live long enough to reach the final frontier, but her life has inspired a… Read More

Amazon donates $10M for new University of Washington computer science building

Amazon is putting $10 million toward a second building for the University of Washington’s Computer Science & Engineering program, helping to… Read More

Inside the pioneering Seattle area school that’s shaking up how STEM education is taught

From the outside, TAF Academy is not much to look at. Housed in a series of bland, portable classrooms —… Read More

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Boeing awards $6 million in grants for STEM education (and its future workforce)

Three universities and scores of other educational programs stand to benefit from $6 million in grants from the Boeing Co.… Read More

Coding Bootcamp study

Coding bootcamp pays off: Grads report 64% increase in average salary, according to new study

Tech-minded students who graduate from a coding bootcamp are not only likely to land a job requiring the skills they learned,… Read More

What preschoolers can teach the tech industry about working on STEM problems

Tech engineers and managers struggling to improve productivity and performance could take a lesson from preschoolers. A new study from the… Read More

Can video games save the planet? Students and professors hope to inform and inspire with EarthGames

Millions of gamers love nail-biting, edge-of-your-couch “Call of Duty” scary games. Millions more adore cuddly, irresistible Pikachus, Eevees and Jigglypuffs.… Read More

GLOBE Observer app

NASA spotlights its GLOBE Observer smartphone app for citizen scientists

One of NASA’s longest-running citizen science programs isn’t just for kids anymore: A newly released app called GLOBE Observer can… Read More

Code Fellows wins approval to accept GI Bill to teach veterans how to code

Veterans in Washington state now have a chance to attend a very different kind of bootcamp using the GI Bill. The… Read More

Bill Gates Star Wars

The Jedi of Washington teachers schools Bill Gates on Star Wars and how it can connect to civil rights

Self-professed “big Star Wars fan” Bill Gates got a lesson in how the iconic sci-fi series can be used to… Read More

STEM

Four Washington math and science teachers among recipients of Presidential Award for Excellence

Four Washington educators are among the 213 mathematics and science teachers named by President Obama Monday as recipients of the Presidential Award… Read More

Bill Gates

Bill Gates thinks most high schools in America are obsolete — but not this one

At Summit Sierra, a personalized learning charter school in Seattle’s International District, students use software to chase their dreams. They set… Read More

Haiku Deck launches classroom platform to help teachers and students build presentations

Haiku Deck’s first four years were all about building a customer base for its free presentation software. It became popular… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Seattle moms launch Sproutable, an online learning hub for parents

After years working in public health and early childhood development, Alanna Beebe grew concerned that the latest science in her… Read More

Coding Dojo and Bellevue College team up to launch joint software classes

As demand for trained software engineers increases, universities and colleges are straining to keep up. Last month, the University of Washington’s computer science… Read More

Bill Gates

Bill Gates: Why young entrepreneurs are Africa’s greatest hope

Bill Gates believes countries throughout Africa can obtain economic prosperity and fairly distributed wealth — but only by mobilizing the… Read More

Facebook pledges $15M to Code.org to promote diversity in K-12 computer science education

Code.org, a Seattle-based non-profit that promotes computer science education around the world, secured a $15 million donation from Facebook, to be… Read More

Amazon launches education content sharing service for K-12 teachers and schools

Updated below with details of a copyright issue related to the site. Amazon is launching a new site where K-12… Read More

Coding bootcamps report

Growth still strong for coding bootcamps; industry on track to graduate 17,000 students this year

Coding bootcamps continue to show strong growth as the industry is expected to graduate more than 17,000 students and grow… Read More

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International Space University will bring its executive course to Seattle this October

For almost 30 years, the International Space University has prepared fans of the final frontier for executive jobs at places like… Read More

How this two-year college is tackling the tech industry’s talent shortage

Washington state’s tech sector is adding roughly 3,500 new jobs each year that require a computer science degree — but… Read More

ProjectWA

Students from tiny Lopez Island class make history with Washington state ‘insider’ app

A tiny eighth-grade history class on Lopez Island, Wash., has spent the school year learning enough about state history to… Read More

Microsoft gives teachers free early access to new Minecraft: Education Edition

Minecraft, the wildly popular game that lets users create infinite worlds, is undoubtedly on many students’ minds as last days… Read More

Inside the modern science fair: Wind-tunnel tests, spacecraft parachutes and Kevlar soccer socks

If you’ve been to a school science fair in the last decade or two, you already know that they’ve moved… Read More

Why a sewage survey gives the Gates Foundation’s CEO new hope for eliminating diseases through innovation

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann thinks a Nigerian health officer’s work collecting sewage is “a thing of beauty.”… Read More

AI2 CEO calls for ‘full disclosure’ in artificial intelligence after students learn their TA is really a bot

A class of students at the Georgia Institute of Technology recently learned that Jill Watson, the teacher’s assistant they’d been… Read More

Walk this way: New metric from researchers could help kids with cerebral palsy

For more than 20 years, clinicians working with children with cerebral palsy have been gathering “a deluge of data” to… Read More

Code.org lands $23M as U.S. business leaders implore Congress to fund computer science education

Code.org, the non-profit that promotes computer science education around the world, has secured $23 million in donations from Microsoft, Infosys, Google, Mark… Read More

Varsity Tutors taps former Amazon and Sears exec Ian Clarkson to lead new Seattle product office

Varsity Tutors, a St. Louis-based company that connects instructors with students for online and in-person tutoring sessions, is setting up… Read More

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