Marking its 10th anniversary Tuesday morning, the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship said it received new funding commitments totaling $30 million from three of its original supporters, Microsoft, Boeing, and Gary… Read More
When school went virtual last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, parents’ carefully forged limits on technology went out the window. Every aspect of our lives — education, socializing and… Read More
Microsoft announced a scholarship program for U.S. community colleges and other initiatives to address what it describes as a national cybersecurity skills crisis. The company says it will offer free… Read More
A summer of spreadsheets, researching startups and wrangling data might not sound like “school’s out,” but that’s exactly what four high school students experienced over the past few months analyzing… Read More
Amazon is increasing its investment in the education and training of its front-line operations workers, announcing Thursday that it will spend $1.2 billion by 2025 to cover full college tuition… Read More
There are the conventional ways to start, fund and run a business, and then there’s Jelani Memory’s way of doing it. The CEO of A Kids Company About launched his… Read More
The University of Washington’s Husky Robotics team was the top-performing U.S. team and third in the world in the 2021 University Rover Challenge earlier this month. The competition, which involved… Read More
Update, June 29: A handful of teams from the Seattle area and another from southeastern Washington state made a strong showing in the finals this month of the American Rocketry… Read More
New funding: Kadama, the Seattle-based tutoring app which seized on its quirky social media presence to attract millions of followers and customers, has raised $1.7 million in a seed round… Read More
A team of University of Washington students whose mission is to simplify planning and transactions related to burial plots, has won the $25,000 grand prize in the 2021 Dempsey Startup… Read More
When Madisen Cordell was in elementary school, a teacher used to bring her into the hallway to give her more challenging math problems. Now a high school senior, Cordell is… Read More
It’s been a tough year for people everywhere. But Thursday proved to be an inspiring day, as the 2021 GeekWire Awards returned to honor some of the leading innovators and… Read More
The shift to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic caused plenty of technological headaches for families and educators. But one large company and one small one provide a glimpse into… Read More
The pandemic upended education in extraordinary ways, and shed new light on the social, economic and racial disparities in schools and communities across the country. But how can teachers, students,… Read More
The University of Washington will require all students get vaccinated against COVID-19 before the start of the autumn quarter, UW President Ana Mari Cauce announced Monday. In a message to… Read More
Amazon announced Tuesday that it is expanding one of its so-called “upskilling” programs to people outside of the company who are interested in acquiring training for roles in software engineering.… Read More
Annie Liu was always pretty conflicted about her identities. At home she would only speak Chinese, and out in the world she would switch to a different language and change… Read More
Washington’s K-12 system was woefully underprepared for the COVID-19 pandemic. While our educators have done an admirable job, too many children have lost learning opportunities that will be difficult to… Read More
Nearly a year has passed since Washington’s schools closed due to COVID-19. The state’s children are suffering a mental and behavioral health crisis so troubling that Gov. Jay Inslee has… Read More
Deena Pierott answered the phone and remarked about how glad she was that it was Friday. “I don’t know why I say that because I work seven days a week,”… Read More
Nithya Kemp has always known that she wanted to pursue some kind of career around technology. Her kind heart and compassion toward the emotional suffering of others is impacting just… Read More
Amazon is making a $15 million donation to Code.org to help the Seattle nonprofit launch a new Advanced Placement computer science programming course aimed at underrepresented groups of students. The… Read More
It’s widely understood that COVID-19 has been largely disastrous for schools, but the numbers behind that assertion are still pretty shocking. There are about 1.1 million K-12 students in Washington… Read More
The young founders of Seattle-based tutoring app Kadama have been learning for years how to launch and grow a startup, and even pivot in the face of a game-changing pandemic.… Read More
At the ages of 11 and 12, Merrill Keating wrote and published three books. It turns out her story was just getting started. Merrill’s long list of activities and achievements… Read More
Microsoft announced Thursday that it is committing more than $110 million in additional funds to help Washington state continue to deal with and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Microsoft President… Read More
Back in middle school, Archika Dogra considered herself a “humanities kid” who didn’t have a lot of interest in science, technology, engineering and math. Wrapping up her first virtual semester… Read More
There’s online teaching and then there’s cool YouTube-style teaching with a lightboard, neon-colored markers, a black backdrop and a Steve Jobs-worthy wardrobe on the instructor. Steve Brunton is doing the… Read More
Remote learning can be a stressful experience, but 15-year-old Maxwell Mamishev has come to love it, if only because it has given him more time to focus on the things… Read More
Seattle Public Schools will continue remote education through the first semester until Jan. 28. The district said its decision was based on increasing COVID-19 cases in King County, which have… Read More