At the second Future of Learning Forum, University of Virginia faculty and local schoolteachers spoke about the present shortcomings of public education, and shared ideas for changing the status quo. The forum, held Wednesday at the Darden School of Business, was organized by the Darden Education Club, the Education Council at UVa’s Curry School of […]
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St. Anne’s hackathon a crash course in tech, problem-solving
Last weekend, the third annual SPARK! Hackathon at St. Anne’s-Belfield School encouraged local high-schoolers to learn new technology skills and apply them to difficult societal problems. Fifty-five students from St. Anne’s and other Central Virginia schools participated in the two-day coding and design challenge, with 20 more students volunteering as mentors and event organizers. “We […]
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Local renewable-energy companies launch shared internship portal
A group of renewable-energy companies in the Charlottesville area believes there is strength in numbers when recruiting interns. The Charlottesville Renewable Energy Alliance recently launched an online portal that enables college students and recent graduates to send their resumes to multiple local energy companies through a single internship application. Charity Pennock, director of the CvilleREA, […]
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Super-social: Moran leaving digital legacy of 103,000-plus tweets
Retiring Albemarle schools superintendent building thriving online community for educators In her first tweet, Pam Moran told her followers that she was “… thinking about simplicity, creativity and [pre-K]-12 education.” Those are topics the Albemarle County Public Schools superintendent has not stopped thinking, or tweeting, about in the nine years since. “[Social media] has changed […]
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Computers4Kids Annual Showcase, 2017
Computers4Kids hosted its annual showcase on Aug. 25 at its Clubhouse in the Ix warehouse complex. C4K’s mentoring program lets low-income middle and high school students work on a creative project with the guidance of a volunteer mentor each week. C4K members who demonstrate commitment to the program receive a free refurbished computer that they can keep.
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Local high schoolers gain tech experience through summer internships
As Virginia’s public schools seek to prepare students for high-paying jobs in technology industries, some students aren’t waiting to graduate to get their first experiences in the field. This summer, two friends and classmates at Charlottesville High School wrote code for software companies on opposite sides of the Downtown Mall. James Nachbar worked at Astraea, […]
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Open Bio Labs hosts conference for community-based science
Over the past decade, community laboratories across the world have allowed people to become DIY biologists, inventing technology and investigating the natural world regardless of their scientific background. About a dozen amateur and professional scientists gathered in Charlottesville this past weekend to discuss ways to increase these labs’ visibility to the public, and how to […]
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St. Anne’s-Belfield hosts computer science institute for educators
Educators from Albemarle County and beyond came to the St. Anne’s-Belfield School this week to practice coding, try out new educational technology and to learn from their peers at a two-day Computer Science Institute. The free event, which concludes on Friday, was open to all K-12 educators, after-school instructors and other organizations and individuals that […]
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DataClassroom brings science visualization to high school classrooms
Aaron Reedy noticed something was missing from high school science classrooms. A former Chicago public school teacher and current Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia, he was unsatisfied with the available data analytics software options and felt that in order to simulate a professional lab setting, something had to be done. With input from […]
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National pilot program for “maker learning” finds inspiration in Albemarle County
In the middle of summer vacation, Albemarle County Public Schools still had plenty to show a group of educators interested in helping students learn through “making.” Last week, the county school division played host to the Digital Promise Maker Learning Leadership Project, a professional development program for school districts that have demonstrated a strong aspirational […]
