Rolling & coasting: Foam and marbles help teens avoid summer ‘brain drain’
Excited chatter and laughter filled an activity room at the Boys & Girls Club of Columbus Wednesday morning. The collective sound was positive — made moreso because it came from 20 or so teenagers some might expect to be wasting a summer day sleeping, or hunched over a device of some kind. Not this group.
Fairview Elementary receives 5K grant for technology
Fairview Elementary students will begin next year building their understanding of computer technology from the inside-out. Literally.
SOCSD issues 600 iPads to teachers
Middle and high school classrooms in the Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District will be a little different as class resumes today after the district deployed hundreds of iPads to its teachers on Friday.
Testing the water: CHS ‘SMART Kids’ use grant to build STEM skills
Each Monday right after school, five students file into Deborah Pounders’ biology classroom at Columbus High School for a special project they’ve been working on since August.
Gaining a seat at the table: Bulldog Bytes STEM camp encourages girls to pursue computer science
Women teaching women in a field traditionally dominated by men.
That’s the idea behind the Mississippi State University sponsored Bulldog Bytes camp hosted this week at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Columbus.
New Hope High freshman to represent Miss. at national STEM conference
A New Hope High School freshman will travel to Massachusetts this summer to represent Mississippi in a three-day conference hosted for high school honors students who are passionate about science, technology, engineering or mathematics.
‘Programming is problem solving’: Local senior conducts STEM camp for girls
Rising Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science senior Mary Lee says technology and computers are pivotal subjects for students to learn and master in order to succeed in the future.