Kentucky selected to join computer science alliance focused on expanding access to quality computing education
Kentucky is among a cohort of seven states selected to join the Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP) Alliance.
Climate change challenge invites students’ ideas
The Innovate to Mitigate project, funded by the National Science Foundation, invites middle school and high school students and student groups to participate in a competition to reduce climate change by coming up with ideas to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Students will compete for cash prizes in the two-phase competition. In round one, students are asked to submit [...]
Farmer, Works receive presidential awards
Suzanne Farmer Two Kentucky elementary school teachers have been honored as 2012 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching recipients. The winners were announced Dec. 20, 2013. Suzanne Farmer, a mathematics intervention teacher at Toliver Elementary School (Boyle County) and Patti Works, a science teacher at Cassidy Elementary School (Fayette County), are the Kentucky honorees. Recipients [...]
Teachers can’t wait to get their hands on nanoparticles
Teachers did research at UofL and UK this summer to take real-world experience back to the classroom.