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
Long before COVID-19 thrust how we teach and learn using technology into an uncomfortable spotlight, Mike Tholfsen was imagining the tools that would make learning more inclusive and empowering for… Read More
— Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. says it’s signed an agreement with HawkEye 360 to support multiple launches of the Virginia-based company’s radio-frequency mapping satellites. Spaceflight will provide mission management services for… Read More
Amazon is donating more than $2.5 million to bolster its commitment to students from underserved communities in the Seattle region and help meet their needs during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic,… Read More
Now a few weeks into remote back-to-school, some of Washington’s K-12 students and educators are finding that internet connectivity is a digital divide that they still can’t span as COVID-19… Read More
It’s hard enough for parents and kids trying to navigate remote learning from home. But for teachers forced to conduct classes online with just a small laptop, the experience can… Read More
[Editor’s Note: Seattle tech entrepreneur and hacker Adam Doppelt, co-founder of local business recommendation startup Fresh Chalk, previously co-founded Dwellable and Urbanspoon. GeekWire asked him to expand on a recent… Read More
With remote learning ramping up in school districts across the country, T-Mobile is launching a $10.7 billion initiative designed to help connect millions of underserved student households to the internet… Read More
As the vast majority of Washington’s kids are returning to school this month via Zoom conferences and online assignments, a statewide effort called the Digital Equity Initiative is launching Wednesday… Read More
Seattle’s Pacific Science Center took its own messages about innovation and ingenuity to heart this summer and created a slate of camps for kids in the time of COVID-19, conducted… Read More
Sheshank Shankar was 8 years old when he started to learn how to code. Seven years later, the high school student has years of real-world computer science experience under his… Read More
The White House is enlisting major tech companies and research institutions to teach K-12 students quantum information sciences, the new frontier in computing technology. The Trump administration is launching the… Read More
When Heven Ambachew was unsure how she could integrate technology with her other interests, she found direction through Geeking Out Kids of Color (GOKiC). Three years later, the high school… Read More
The Trump administration is walking back a controversial rule that would not allow international students to remain the country if their universities plan to hold all classes online. U.S. Immigration… Read More
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced plans to sue the federal government over new rules that would ban international students from the U.S. if their course load is offered entirely… Read More
The University of Washington’s leaders — and their colleagues across the country — are walking a tightrope as they plan for the fall term amid rising coronavirus cases and controversial… Read More
Microsoft plans to provide digital skills training for 25 million people this year under a new, multi-million dollar initiative that will bring together multiple branches of the company, including LinkedIn… Read More
Two Washington state students are among 100 winners of Amazon Future Engineer college scholarships, the company announced this week. This is the second year that Amazon has selected high school… Read More
Locked out of hair salons by the coronavirus pandemic, Simmi Sen was looking for a way to provide her style-conscious middle school friends with a new ‘do. So what she… Read More
After receiving an offer letter in February to work as an intern at Amazon, Yaminee Patel envisioned a summer “running around Seattle.” Having lived in small towns and cities her… Read More
The University of Washington is launching a new Center for Research and Education on Accessible Technology and Experiences (CREATE) and Microsoft is helping to fund the effort with a $2.5 million… Read More
As the University of Washington prepares for the first virtual graduation in its 159-year history, President Ana Mari Cauce is focused on what happens a few months later. Speaking at… Read More
A longtime contact of mine recently emailed a New York Times article from June 18, 1998: “Virtual-Classes Trend Alarms Professors.” Viewed through the lens of 2020, the headline was worthy… Read More
XPRIZE’s latest program to incentivize innovation is going after a new demographic: young people between the ages of 10 and 18 who are up for developing video games that play… Read More
NASA has awarded the University of Washington a $499,864 grant to develop a competition that calls on students to turn a simulated lava tube into a habitat suitable for harboring… Read More
Bill and Melinda Gates have been working for years, through their philanthropic efforts, to address some of the biggest challenges in health care, education, energy, poverty and more. Now they’re… Read More
A team of students from the University of Washington is among the global finalists in Microsoft’s annual Imagine Cup after putting their imaginations — and technical skills — to work… Read More
Picking up on a suggestion from an Alabama high-school junior, NASA has given an ingenious name to the first helicopter due to take flight on Mars. The new name, Ingenuity,… Read More
When she’s not competing in wrestling, whipping up recipes in cooking club or volunteering at her local library branch, Isabella Arreola is busy excelling at the science, technology, engineering and… Read More
Like many people working from home these days, Bill Gates hopped on a Zoom call Wednesday morning. The Microsoft co-founder just happened to be joining thousands of students from across… Read More