Articles about Education – Page 17 of 19

Entire Seton Hall freshman class getting Windows Phone

Here’s one way to get Microsoft’s Windows Phone into the hands of more users. The entire incoming freshman class at… Read More

President Obama recognizes math and science teachers, including 3 from the Pacific Northwest

There’s a critical need in the U.S. to make sure that public schools are churning out kids who are strong… Read More

Meet the future: These 21 UW computer science grads are ready to change the world

It’s a good time to have a degree in computer science. And it’s not just because Amazon.com, Google and Microsoft are… Read More

Faye G. Allen, mother of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, dies at 90

Faye G. Allen, the schoolteacher mother of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, has died at the age of 90 due to… Read More

Startup advice from Zulily CEO Darrell Cavens: Move fast, because speed matters

For the past few years, Keith Vernon of Bristlecone Advisors has taken the stage at the University of Washington’s annual… Read More

Rooftop urban farm may sprout at Microsoft’s Redmond campus

Microsoft is one of the world’s biggest technology companies. But a new type of business may be sprouting on the… Read More

F5 Networks CEO John McAdam: Why Seattle works for his $1 billion company

F5 Networks has been operating in the Seattle area for more than 15 years, quietly building one of the biggest… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Saltbox looks to help sales forces stay on top

Saltbox co-founder and CEO John Delano admits that his company isn’t building the “most sexy mobile-social-big data app.” But even so,… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Game Collage makes kids’ apps to entertain, inspire, educate

Kids love apps. But not everything found in the mobile app stores these days is suitable for young, impressionable minds.… Read More

Northeastern University to open graduate school this fall, names Seattle attorney as dean

Northeastern University is continuing to push forward with its graduate school in Seattle, announcing today that it plans to open… Read More

Guest column: Let’s celebrate the geeks who ‘GiveBig’

Today is Seattle Foundation’s 1-day GiveBIG challenge. Seattleites will compete for $500,000 in matching donations for their favorite local charities.… Read More

Hacking Edu: tech’s role in the future of higher education

Call it a noble experiment: only a month to re-imagine institutions with centuries of tradition and, some might say, baggage.… Read More

DreamBox re-positions itself for focus on K-12 market

Digital education company DreamBox Learning has solidified its shift to emphasize the K-12 school market over the consumer market by… Read More

Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh on why we need to invest in education right now

Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh may be in the business of cracking people up. But the Seattle Internet entrepreneur also has some… Read More

Survey shows changes in tech use at state’s biggest university

Enthusiasm for technology runs wide and deep at the University of Washington, which recently took a snapshot of current tech… Read More

Y Combinator for high-school kids? It’s students only at this new startup incubator

StudentRND has been gathering geeky and entrepreneurial high school and college kids for weekend hackathons for three years now. Now,… Read More

Seattle schools to offer digital animation, game courses

Budding digital animators and game programmers will soon have another option for learning those skills — through Seattle Public Schools’… Read More

Check out these 14 ‘entrepreneur’ grants for STEM education

Washington STEM, a nonprofit that supports science, technology, engineering, and math education across the state, has awarded 14 grants to educators in… Read More

Check out this awesome basketball-shooting robot

Forget about “Linsanity.” Check out this sharpshooting basketball robot, created by students at Seattle’s Aviation High School. The robot will… Read More

What blows Bill Gates’ mind about U.S. education — and not in a good way

One of the cool things about Bill Gates’ website, The Gates Notes, is the feeling that you’re looking over his… Read More

7 steps to raise a geek child

It’s inevitable. New babies are coming into the world. I began to notice this when former colleagues were no longer… Read More

Porsches in the parking lot; Etch-a-Sketch in the sky; and other quotes of the week

The best insights, observations, comments, tweets and random zingers we heard this week. “This is much more than a building… Read More

From plasma speakers to robotic pipe organs: Meet the inventors of ‘StudentRND’

A lot of folks have been lamenting the state of education, wondering if the U.S. will lose its edge in… Read More

UW president pledges to double startup production as new campus incubator hatches

University of Washington President Michael Young today announced an ambitious plan to double the number of startup companies coming out… Read More

University of Washington to hatch startup incubator today

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jay Inslee earlier this week laid out an economic plan for Washington state that included ideas on how… Read More

Textbooks as software: Apple debuts iBooks 2, iBooks Author in new digital education push

At an event in New York City this morning, Apple unveiled a new version of its iBooks platform for reading… Read More

A FarmVille for wetlands? Students create Facebook game with proceeds going to wetland restoration

The University of Washington Bothell is located on the edge of a marshy wetland, created by a vibrant ecosystem around… Read More

Video: UW students utilize the Kinect to teach math

The study of mathematics is largely about abstract theories. But Jeb Pavleas and Jack Chang Keng-Wei — two enterprising students at… Read More

Dear Stanford: Now that your NYC campus isn’t happening, how about Seattle?

Dear Stanford, First, we want to express our deepest sympathies about the loss in the Fiesta Bowl last night. It… Read More

When will Santa be in Seattle?

It’s a big question on a lot of kids’ minds today, so I figured I’d just call and ask. When… Read More