U.S. News STEM Solutions - June 17-19, 2013 - Austin, TX National Instruments, a partner of Pitsco Education, will be sponsoring this conference while showcasing our miniSystems in booth 521. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) - June 23-26, 2013 - Atlanta, GA Visit booth 504 and check out all of our featured engineering products showcased by Dr. Zoon himself! International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) - June 23-26, 2013 - San Antonio, TX Mr. Robot and other great Pitsco...

The Clearly Solar Car Kit allows your student to test things like the angle of the solar panels, different gear combinations, and switching from series to parallel circuitry on the solar panels. These features insure a larger amount of flexibility in the design and engineering process, while learning about solar energy, electricity, and gearing. This would be a great project to do at home or as a COOP project. There are also two activities available on the Pitsco website that you can use to expand...

In an earlier “Grant Funding Leads” article, we referred to an R.L. Sharpe song noting that each person is given a “bag of tools” and must endeavor to make a “stepping stone.” The key to all positive change in education is a combination of great teachers and the curricula. Highly effective teachers seek the most effective tools with which to build their students’ stepping stones. These are people who utilize the benefits of technology, can engage students...

In a report released by the Institute of Medicine on May 23, 2013, the committee on Physical Activity and Physical Education in the School Environment made six recommendations and potential actions for schools. One of these recommendations is simply that students should be engaged in 60 minutes of vigorous or moderate-intensity physical activity per day, with more than half of this time to be completed during regular school hours. In addition to physical activity during physical education (PE) class...

The next time you notice food wrappers littering the beach or miles of debris strewn along the coastline, don’t just pick it up – report it! Now, thanks to the Marine Debris Tracker app developed by the University of Georgia College of Engineering’s NOAA Marine Debris Division and Southeast Atlantic Marine Debris Initiative, ordinary citizens can assist in the collection of scientific data while also helping keep the coasts clean and the waterways flowing freely. The app, compatible...

The president has proposed his budget, and “the budget is built around key themes that span the cradle-to-career continuum,” said US Education Secretary Arne Duncan. The goals of this experiment will not manifest a Lake Wobegon Effect as each state will utilize the largesse in their pursuit of the objectives to create the ideal STEM or Core Curriculum results for students under their auspices. Not the “prettiest, handsomest, or most intelligent” will be sought, rather the...