digiLEARN: Uniting educators and entrepreneurs by Alisa Herr | September 4, 2016 “How can we create an environment that increases opportunities for educators and entrepreneurs to collaborate?” This was the question on everybody’s brains...
Featured Facebook’s TechPrep seeks to diversify tech with outreach to minority families by Alisa Herr | July 5, 2016 On a beautiful summer evening, the gym at the Emily K Center in Durham was packed — not for a...
Featured How one school program gave students wings by Alisa Herr | June 14, 2016 If you walked into the courtyard at Kingswood Elementary last Tuesday or Wednesday — anytime during school hours except for...
Featured Celebrating STEM at the NC Science Festival by Alisa Herr | April 12, 2016 Saturday was a cold and blustery — yet sunny — day. Nevertheless, the UNC Science Expo had been on our...
Featured Introducing the EdData Dashboard by Alisa Herr | March 15, 2016 Often people disagree about the facts. But data can help us find common ground. We think good data leads to...
News Former N.C. Gov. Perdue leads SXSW panel on innovations and challenges for classroom tech by Alisa Herr | March 10, 2016 Former North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue led a South by Southwest (SXSW) Education forum on Wednesday on how education technology can...
Featured Opportunity for teachers: Duke Energy offers $75,000 for classroom STEM projects by Alisa Herr | January 26, 2016 Duke Energy is offering to help teachers develop new, engaging ways to help students reach their full learning potential. Through a...
Featured Schools, businesses partner to enrich student learning by Alisa Herr | January 12, 2016 Last Tuesday, business leaders from 43 companies and organizations gathered with educators at Biogen in RTP for the annual STEM and...
Featured 5 predictions for STEM in 2016 by Alisa Herr | January 5, 2016 I always loved math and science when I was in school. Solving problems and discovering how things work always got...
Featured Innovation in practice at Kingswood Elementary by Alisa Herr | December 22, 2015 When I attended Kingswood Elementary in Cary as a kindergartener in 1989, it was a pilot year for Wake County’s year-round program....
NC STEM Center e-Update: Best of STEM in North Carolina for 2015 by Alisa Herr | December 11, 2015 Twice a month the NC STEM Center provides an e-update on what’s happening in STEM, and their latest edition is...
Featured Young women leaders prepare to take on the world: Chelsea Clinton visits Raleigh school by Alisa Herr | December 1, 2015 “I think we often don’t know where we’re going to wind up when we start.” –Chelsea Clinton For the last school...
