Articles about Education – Page 2 of 20

Code.org CEO on the nonprofit’s first 10 years, and the impact of AI on teaching computer science

When the Seattle-based nonprofit Code.org launched in 2013 with a mission to spread computer science knowledge, co-founders Hadi and Ali… Read More

Education services company Perdoceo acquires coding bootcamp school Coding Dojo for $52.8M

Coding Dojo, the Bellevue, Wash.-based software engineering bootcamp operator, has been acquired by Perdoceo, a publicly traded Illinois-based company that… Read More

‘It changed my life’: Microsoft vet creates mentoring program for tech-focused college students

The current economic slowdown aside, employers have long lamented a shortage of skilled tech workers. Tech companies have made pledges,… Read More

New renderings show Univ. of Washington building that will house clean energy research and more

Newly released renderings show a building planned for the west campus of the University of Washington in Seattle that will… Read More

Washington state to add 500 seats in cybersecurity college programs in effort to bolster safeguards

Washington leaders trying to bulk up the state’s cybersecurity workforce are boosting community and technical college cybersecurity program enrollments by… Read More

Targeting ‘everyday givers,’ Melinda French Gates to teach MasterClass on impactful giving

If you’ve already mastered a skateboarding ollie thanks to Tony Hawk or the art of storytelling courtesy of Malcom Gladwell,… Read More

Galvanize co-working space and coding bootcamp closing Seattle location after seven years

Galvanize, the Denver-based company that offers co-working space and coding education bootcamps in several U.S. cities, is closing its location… Read More

NFL star Bobby Wagner helps kids get the tech exposure that shaped his life outside football

Former Seattle Seahawks star Bobby Wagner looks back fondly on the opportunity he got away from football to learn more… Read More

Seattle U students tackle real-world computer and engineering projects for Amazon, F5 and others

Technology moves so fast, it can be difficult to teach computer science and engineering students the very latest in their… Read More

2022 GeekWire Awards revealed: Community celebrates big winners in Pacific NW tech

Community. It felt good to say it and hear it, and it felt even better to see it in action… Read More

Amazon donates $1M in STEM education collaboration with Seattle’s Pacific Science Center

Seattle’s Pacific Science Center is teaming with the Amazon Future Engineer program to deliver more science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)… Read More

Amazon donates $2.2M to fund helping students in Seattle and Bellevue afford basic needs

Amazon is donating $2.2 million to help students from underserved communities in Seattle and Bellevue, Wash., afford basic necessities, the… Read More

DubHacks Next Demo Day brings student innovators center stage at Univ. of Washington

College is a pivotal time of self-discovery. Many of us discover what we might want to accomplish as we enter… Read More

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Ungrading? Letting kids teach IT? GeekWire Award-winning STEM teachers share innovative strategies

Innovation is alive and well in STEM classrooms across Washington state, inspiring students to seek opportunities in science, technology, engineering… Read More

Two Seattle-area students are finalists in NASA design contest for lunar dirt-digging robots

Dig this — two Seattle-area students were semifinalists in a national contest run by NASA in which kids in grades K-12… Read More

Seattle-area high school senior awarded $250,000 for gravitational wave research

Christine Ye, a senior at Eastlake High School in Sammamish, Wash., has won the top award in the nation’s oldest… Read More

Code.org bands together with Coldplay to get kids dancing and coding via #codeplay contest

Seattle based computer education nonprofit Code.org is teaming with the British rock band Coldplay for a contest aimed at inspiring… Read More

Seattle Colleges and Amazon create new opportunity for computer science degrees

The pressing need for more computer science graduates combined with tech companies’ pledges to build more racially and ethnically diverse… Read More

NASA gives a lift to 57 high-flying student experiments, including one from the Seattle area

NASA has chosen 57 winning teams — including a team from Interlake High School in Bellevue, Wash.— to receive funding… Read More

Seattle school district says no evidence of specific threat after ‘TikTok challenge’ spreads across U.S.

Seattle Public Schools issued an update to families in the district on Friday morning about a so-called “TikTok challenge” involving… Read More

Microsoft, Boeing and Rubens family pledge new funds to Washington State Opportunity Scholarship

Marking its 10th anniversary Tuesday morning, the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship said it received new funding commitments totaling $30 million… Read More

Still caught in a screen-time tsunami with your kids? Tech leaders share their experiences and tips

When school went virtual last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, parents’ carefully forged limits on technology went out the… Read More

Microsoft allies with community colleges to help U.S. train 250k new cybersecurity workers by 2025

Microsoft announced a scholarship program for U.S. community colleges and other initiatives to address what it describes as a national… Read More

These high schoolers spent their summer analyzing the GeekWire 200 — here’s what they found

A summer of spreadsheets, researching startups and wrangling data might not sound like “school’s out,” but that’s exactly what four… Read More

Amazon to spend $1.2B to pay college tuition and expand skills training for operations workers

Amazon is increasing its investment in the education and training of its front-line operations workers, announcing Thursday that it will… Read More

This Portland startup wants to build the ‘most inclusive and the most diverse’ kids media brand

There are the conventional ways to start, fund and run a business, and then there’s Jelani Memory’s way of doing… Read More

University of Washington’s Husky Robotics is top U.S. team at Rover Challenge

The University of Washington’s Husky Robotics team was the top-performing U.S. team and third in the world in the 2021… Read More

Seattle-area students make strong showing in national finals of American Rocketry Challenge

Update, June 29: A handful of teams from the Seattle area and another from southeastern Washington state made a strong… Read More

Seattle tutoring app Kadama gets quick lesson in success as it raises $1.7M, grows social following

New funding: Kadama, the Seattle-based tutoring app which seized on its quirky social media presence to attract millions of followers… Read More

Funeral planning idea wins $25k top prize at UW student startup competition

A team of University of Washington students whose mission is to simplify planning and transactions related to burial plots, has… Read More