Articles about Education – Page 5 of 19

Hey, kids: Name NASA’s 2020 Mars rover!

NASA says a student will provide the official name for its 2020 Mars rover, continuing a tradition that began 16… Read More

Geek of the Week: Annee Ngo engages students with e-sports tied to education and real money

The popular belief may be that gaming and e-sports can serve to distract kids from focusing on what’s “really important,”… Read More

Kids re-enact moon landing in robot challenge at Univ. of Washington — and win trips to NASA sites

Middle and high school students from across Washington state competed in a robotics challenge last week at the University of… Read More

Univ. of Washington names veteran data scientist to lead booming computer science school into new era

Professor Magdalena Balazinska has long been considered a leader in data management and data science at the University of Washington’s… Read More

Geek of the Week: Researcher, writer, mom Amanda Sullivan pushes importance of STEM for young girls

As a young girl, Amanda Sullivan never met any female engineers or scientists. She was never encouraged to pursue a… Read More

Amazon commits $700M to retrain 100k employees, acknowledging impact of tech on jobs

Amazon is embarking on a $700 million effort to retrain its U.S. workforce, in a high-profile acknowledgment of the impact… Read More

How entrepreneurship and coding training programs build a path from prison to employment

Incarcerated people and entrepreneurs, generally speaking, share some key traits. Both are willing to embrace big risks and to work… Read More

OK Go contest winners will launch their cosmic creations on Blue Origin spaceship

Three students are getting ready for a space experiment that will use gravity and magnetism to simulate the origin of… Read More

Amazon teams with Seattle schools to inspire underserved students to pursue STEM and robotics

It was already pajama day in Sae Kang’s third grade class at John Muir Elementary School in Seattle on Tuesday.… Read More

Geek of the Week: ‘Secret superpower’ helps guide Hannah Werbel’s success at the Univ. of Washington

Hannah Werbel’s impact at the University of Washington was recognized early at the school when she was awarded the President’s… Read More

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Harvey Mudd President Maria Klawe has a message for computer science grads — and the tech industry

In the 13 years since Maria Klawe took over as president of Harvey Mudd College, she has surprised skeptics and… Read More

Univ. of Washington’s Husky Robotics is on a roll, as Mars rover offers students a big engineering project

A team from the University of Washington just returned from a competition on Mars. Or, Utah’s version of the Red… Read More

Seattle U breaking ground on ‘new heart’ of campus with $100M Center for Science & Innovation

Seattle University prepared to break ground Thursday on what it is calling the “new heart” of its Capitol Hill campus,… Read More

6 teams of Seattle-area students competing in national finals of Team America Rocketry Challenge

Six Seattle-area teams are among the 101 finalists who will compete in this weekend’s Team America Rocketry Challenge, the aerospace… Read More

Elon Musk with XPRIZE executives and winners

Backed by Elon Musk, Global Learning XPRIZE awards $10M to two tech teams

Two educational companies shared the $10 million top award in the Global Learning XPRIZE, a contest backed by Elon Musk,… Read More

White House proposal to tap Pell Grant fund casts a pall over NASA’s moon plans

Will NASA’s plan to land astronauts on the moon by 2024 fly with Congress? The Artemis program’s implications are still… Read More

Amazon contributing $3M to Seattle U’s Center for Science and Innovation to expand STEM reach

Amazon is making a $3 million contribution toward Seattle University’s new Center for Science and Innovation — a push that… Read More

Amazon pays $700,000 as part of pact with Washington state AG to crack down on toxic school supplies nationwide

Editor’s note: This story has been updated with details from Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s announcement at 11:47 PM on Thursday.… Read More

Geek of the Week: Mitali Palekar’s exceptional Univ. of Washington experience will inform tech career

In pursuit of a degree in computer science with interdisciplinary honors at the University of Washington, Mitali Palekar is a… Read More

Microsoft teams up with UNESCO and kids to revive lost monuments with Minecraft

Can a video game reclaim centuries’ worth of lost cultural heritage in the Middle East? Microsoft’s Minecraft Education Edition is… Read More

Young founder of cloud unicorn HashiCorp giving back to Univ. of Washington with millions in scholarship aid

Armon Dadgar, the 28-year-old co-founder of cloud computing unicorn HashiCorp, only graduated seven years ago from the University of Washington,… Read More

Inspired by student’s use of Code.org in poor town in Kentucky, CEO Hadi Partovi reaches out with gift

In a Twitter thread on Tuesday, Hadi Partovi, the longtime Seattle entrepreneur and founder and CEO of Code.org, provided some… Read More

Tax hike on Amazon and Microsoft to fund higher ed in Washington state passes legislature

Update May 21: Gov. Jay Inslee signed the education bill into law. https://twitter.com/GovInslee/status/1130878840987721728 Washington state lawmakers passed a major tax… Read More

LEGO unveils new city-focused sets for kids who compete in FIRST robotics competitions

Kids who have caught on to the world of FIRST LEGO League competitions will have something new to build with… Read More

‘The hardest fun’: A high school robotics competitor shares why it’s such a big deal in the Seattle area

Editor’s note: Aedan Henry is an Issaquah (Wash.) High School junior and co-president of the Issaquah Robotics Society. GeekWire asked… Read More

Geek of the Week: PopSmartKids founder Priyanka Raha helps families find meaningful screen time

After a 15-year career in the tech industry in which she’s been a software developer and a technical program manager,… Read More

Three Washington girls among 100 winners of first ‘Amazon Future Engineer’ $40,000 scholarships

Amazon revealed 100 lucky winners who will receive the first “Amazon Future Engineer” scholarships as part of the tech giant’s… Read More

Why Microsoft is backing a major tax hike on itself … and Amazon

Microsoft is making an extraordinary habit of inviting regulation of itself, at least when the software giant has a say… Read More

Quantum computing is coming: Here’s why Seattle needs to get our computer science workforce ready

Editor’s note: Tom Alberg is a co-founder and managing director at Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group. He is… Read More

LEGO Lassies, a team of girls from Seattle suburb, ride robotics success to world championships

The LEGO Lassies, a team of sixth-grade girls from Kirkland, Wash., just keep racking up wins in FIRST Washington robotics… Read More