by Sarah Green | Jul 11, 2018 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
There is a great deal to be learned inside a virtual lab environment. Students can access real research while trying to recreate the experiments that generated it. Teachers can model the scientific process or design custom programs for their students to theorize,...
by Sarah Green | Jul 4, 2018 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Fifteen years ago, Ricky Arnold was a middle school science teacher with an incurable wanderlust. His career as a teacher took him from Maryland to the Middle East to the islands of the Pacific. But even that wasn’t enough. In 2006, Arnold completed Astronaut...
by Sarah Green | Apr 4, 2018 | News, Student Issues
The Regeneron Science Talent Search (Regeneron STS) is the oldest and most prestigious of student science competitions. Finalists win purses that add up to nearly $2 million from the Society for Science and the Public, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit. The...
by Sarah Green | Mar 21, 2018 | Parent Issues, Teacher Issues
When we decide to homeschool, it’s important to evaluate our own shortfalls as teachers. Everyone has an area of interest, and that’s wonderful, but it’s so very important not to let our children be left behind in topics we don’t like or...
by Sarah Green | Jan 9, 2017 | Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
One of the hardest things about getting kids interested in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields is that they simply don’t have a lot of exposure to it beyond being users of technology. Girls in particular get shorted when it comes to STEM...
