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The Metaverse Hype Died Down. Where Does That Leave Colleges That Invested In It?

ED Surge

A public community college in east Hollywood, it wasn’t one of the original schools that got grants to build out a “ metaversity ,” a digital alternative campus influenced by the tech company Meta. Los Angeles City College has spent some time trying to refine its metaverse.

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Best STEM Summer Camps In Raleigh 2024

The Maker Mom

Raleigh is best known as the location of the Research Triangle Park, which is also home to several startups and prominent tech companies. Named the largest research park in the United States, there’s no better place to send your child to a STEM camp than in Raleigh.

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Synthetic biology: the power of modified microbes

Futurum

Yet, despite these many and varied uses, researchers believe they remain a mostly untapped resource for humanity. Professor Ian Paulsen is the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology, a research centre that spans nine universities across Australia.

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9 Good Collections of Videos for Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

This placed the responsibility for learning on the students, using teacher-prescribed methods, even though decades of research screamed that lots of kids perform better with images than pages filled with black-and-white text. The website showcases work at film festivals and on over 100 public broadcast and cable channels.

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Supporting small farms: how protecting local farms can protect local communities

Futurum

E’licia Chaverest , from the Small Farms Research Center at Alabama A&M University, USA, is supporting these farmers to help them run successful and resilient farms. E’licia Chaverest is the assistant director of the Alabama A&M University Small Farms Research Center (SFRC). © Dr Duncan M.

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Urban farming for urban families

Futurum

In the early 1990s, I was doing my doctoral research in Lesotho, Southern Africa. The liberal arts consist of the natural sciences, like biology, ecology and neuroscience, formal sciences, like physics and maths, social sciences, and the humanities.

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San Diego Zoo Global offers more than fun for kids with teacher training

STEMx

One such source is San Diego Zoo Global, which provides science teachers nationwide the chance for hands-on experiences in wildlife and conservation research that can be carried back to the classroom. Many of our “alumni” describe the program as the best professional development experience of their career.

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