In today's Digest we look at a new 3D printer that will soon be sent to the serve aboard the International Space Station, a Florida university's choice to offer drones at its media library, the continueing debate on what age kindergarten students should be to begin school, efforts by various MOOC providers to make their content available in countries currently banned due to trade embargos, and a look at Ford's use of 3D printing to drive its rapid pace of development.
We begin this week by examining the demographics of students enrolled in online courses, the targeting of universities for cyber-attacks, Harley-Davidson's new all electric motorcycle, the struggle between college libraries and e-book publishers over pricing, and a look at the impact the Common Core has had on investment in education technology.
This year, 2014, marks the 25th anniversary of OSC’s Summer Institute program for high school students. Since the Ohio Supercomputer Center grew from academic roots, it was only natural for the center’s founders to develop a program through which they could share with students the fascinating and empowering computational resources they’d assembled. It also was logical that they would create a pipeline to help educate and inspire future scientists and engineers.
This Friday's Digest highlights a strong projected growth for the HPC and data analytics market in the coming years, a school district's use of grant funding to develop low cost personalized education programs, a research data sharing platform developed by the San Diego Supercomputer Center, Louisiana's recent move to drop its Common Core Standards, and the Senate's decision to not consider a recently proposed student loan bill.
On this Thursday we take a look at Cleveland State's expansion of additive manufacturing, the completetion of the first ever U.S. House STEM App Competition, a ranking of Ohio's teacher education programs, the current passing rate of the new 3rd Grade Reading Garauntee, and a new set of bill's signed by Gov. Kasich aimed at improving the education and job placement of recent veterans.
In today's Digest we examine the impact that GRE scores are having on enrollment in STEM graduate programs, a partnership between the world's three largest electric car companies, the signing of Ohio's mid-biennium budget, the distribution of Ohio Third Frontier funding, and a claim from an English spy agency that they have the right to intercept online communications of anyone.
This morning's Digest will examine the move by a number of manufacturers to use more 3D printing in the aerospace sector, a new program at Starbucks that will allow employees to take free college courses, a recent report on Ohio's manufacturing economy, Ohio State's recent win of the 3 year long EcoCar 2 Competition, and the creation of 500 new jobs at Dayton's new "Racino".
The Digest for this Monday will take a look at a new ad from Verizon that is hoping to spark interest in STEM for young girls, a new federal bill that would help streamline the tax write off process for small businesses, a reboot of the Magic School Bus tv show that will focus on STEM topics, a new health services partnership for Ohio State's Wexner Medical Center, and a look at 2014's strong growth in additive manufacturing.
In today's Daily Digest we discuss the growing research into algorithms that will make the use of big data easier, the growing popularity of STEM degrees thanks to a variety of different factors, a recent report that ranks Ohio 25th fo having an innovation based economy, a new technology consortium headed by U of Michigan, and the launch of a new fundraising campaign by the Vitual High School to expand its offerings for summer courses.
These days, as modern philosophers like to say, the only constant is change. With that thought in mind, I decided to document some of the changes currently underway at 1224 Kinnear, but also to take a "deeper dive" into how that particular piece of property had evolved over the last century. What I found was far more interesting that I had suspected!
The Daily Digest today highlights a call from the U.S. Commerce Dept. for factories to rebrand themselves to make them more appealing to potential employees, a look at the strong growth in education technology spending for classrooms in the past year, a California judge's ruling that teacher tenure laws violate the State Constitution, a supercomputer that was able to convince a panel of judges that it was human in conversation, and a ruling from the Ohio Supreme Court that upholds the constitutionality of JobsOhio.
Today we take a look at the results of the recent Ohio Graduation Tests, changes being made to Ohio's teacher evaluation rules that will put less weight on student performance, a British company's use of 3D printing to create a phone for the visually impaired, Purdue's new interactive learning system that is helping retain engineering students, and an international competition to use big data to solve climate change related problems.
Today we will be taking a look at the affect that the Common Core standards are having on ed-tech spending, the potential environmental benefits of autonomous vehicles, the growing input from companies to help train college students for the jobs that are actually available, changes to the ACT tests to include more STEM topics, and the average decrease in state spending on education for the third year in a row.
This Monday's Digest takes a look at efforts by a number of colleges to provide degrees in high demand fields such as big data, Dayton's strong growth due to immigration, a new approach to teaching STEM topics, University of Wisconsin's new feminist biology degree, and Meijer's new dairy production plan thtat will add 100 jobs to Ohio.
The Supercomputer Users Group (SUG) meetings held at the Ohio Supercomputer Center over the last 26+ years have, not surprisingly, been bastions for academics. And, rightly so. In order to give meaningful input to the leadership of the Center, they necessarily discuss complex issues of vital importance to their computational research, involving such technical topics as FLOPS, allocations, algorithms, nodes, software, interconnects, peak performance and more.
The Digest for this Friday takes a look at a debate over how effective education apps actually are for children, a STEM camp being put on in Houston, TX to attract students to various STEM fields, a new bill proposed by the Ohio House to give more funding to charter schools that support dropouts, a Longfellow donation to promote STEM in the Durham, NC schools, and a new set of Legos that depict women as scientists.
The Digest for this Thursday will examine new changes being proposed by the Ohio legislature regarding how teachers are evaluated, the unusual number of enrollment spots still open at some of Ohio's colleges, a new makerspace in Columbus that is set to be the largest in the world, U. of Arizona's new supercomputer that has pushed its way onto the Top500 and Green500 lists, and the implications for learning caused by focusing on typing over handwriting schools.
Today's Digest highlights the difficulty of balancing student data privacy with use, a report from Google looking at minority and female involvement in STEm fields, the stagnant enrollment in science and engineering degrees, the strong opposition of allowing concealed carry weapons on campus, and a look at what jobs women are filling in STEM fields.
Today's Digest highlights a growing trend of using mobile devices on campuses to provide remote access to buildings, a new academic freedom policy at U. of Oregon aimed at allowing students and facult to express their opinions, the value of a college degree for the Millennial generation, big data's ability to predict health trends in a person, and where the U.S. falls in the Global Index of Cognitive Skills rankings.
This week starts with a look at a set of new data analytics programs that will tap into the goverments Medicare records to improve medical spending efficiency, a rebutal to the recent New York Times article discussing times where college degrees are not worth it, the approval of the FIRST Act by the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, a look at the importance of STEM for improving the lives of minorities, and the weather's impact on the U.S. economy for the first part of 2014.
Today we will be looking at the White House's fourth annual Science Fair, the push to create an education technology industry in Boston and Balitomore, the increasing demand for people who can work with big data analytics, a new Colorado library that provides a range of technologies for its community, and the shrinking number of summer jobs for teenagers in northeast Ohio.
For this Wednesday's Digest we will be highlighting a new set of regulations in California that will make it lega for autonomous vehicles to be drive, IBM's offer to some major universities to use the Watson supercomputer to aid in research, research showing the long term financial benefits of having a college degree, a new Australian supercomputer that will help in weather prediction, and reports showing central Ohio's strong economic growth.
The Digest for today takes a look at the impact that a college degree can have on lifetime earnings, a recent paper that STEM fields are not facing the shortages that many people claim, the impact that hands on demonstrations can have in sparking student interest in a topic, the role that community colleges are playing in preparing people for work in IT fields, and an 8th grade class's use of independent research time to allow students to pursue topics they are passionate about.
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Today we take a look at the impact that new start-up companies in northeast Ohio are having on the the economy, a proposal to increase the amount of grant money available to Ohio schools to improve security, the impact that big data and analytics are having on athletic performance, Cinncinnati's recent surge in employment, and a new grant that is allowing Pickerington schools to offer dual credit courses in manufacturing and pharmacy.
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