Maker & STEM
Our nation’s continued economic prosperity is closely linked with student success in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Use these resources to explore the critical role STEM education plays in driving innovation, and how schools and districts can expand the capacity and diversity of tomorrow’s STEM workforce.



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Cracking the Code to STEM with ArduinoWhen teacher Casey Korder won an Arduino kit from Intel Education, it helped his school's STEM program to flourish. |
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The HP Sprout: Helping STEM to Take Root in SchoolsWe gave one lucky winner an HP Sprout in one of our giveaways. See how she is incorporating the device into STEM lessons for her students. |
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Rethinking the Library Media CenterFour library media specialists share stories about transforming libraries into next-generation resource centers that students and teachers love to visit. |
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Dell Chromebooks and Classrooms: A Winning CombinationSee for yourself how today’s teachers are using Intel-based Chromebooks to bring 21st Century learning to their students. |
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Math is One of Many Stars at Walter Payton PrepMath teams and contests, exciting electives, collaborative problem solving, and a culture of experimentation and exploration make this Chicago Magnet School a very special place. |
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Narrowing the Divide and Nurturing Tech Experts in Sterling Morton Schools96 percent of students at the Chicago-area Morton 201 High School District qualify for free or reduced-price lunch but that didn’t stop the district leadership from finding ways to get Dell laptops into students’ hands for one-to-one use. |
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1:1 Laptops Set the Stage for District-Wide InnovationTwelve years ago, Roanoke County Public Schools (RCPS) in Virginia handed out Dell laptops to the ninth-grade students at its new high school and students attending the Engineering Academy. Today, all 5,000 high school students and 1,400 teachers in the district are part of the Dell Latitude 1:1 program. |
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Enhancing Sharing in Simple and Meaningful New WaysEd-tech company Clarity Innovations worked with the Math Learning Center to create a dynamic new way to share math learning with teachers and peers. |
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Reflections on Tech Use with Young ChildrenIf technology isn't "good enough" for the children of the Silicon Valley innovators who created it, how can we defend its use in schools, especially with young children? |
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Augmented Vs. Virtual Reality: Which Will Transform Education?Numerous studies have shown the strengths of both virtual and augmented reality use in the classroom. But which is the best fit for today's schools? |
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Using Visual Models to Spark Mathematical DiscussionWhen I reviewed my students’ work, I noticed that only one drew a picture of their solution strategy. The rest lacked a visual context for making sense of the problem. |
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Top Science Education Take-Aways from NSTA18The National Science Teachers’ Association (NSTA) Annual Conference was an enormous success this year. Here are my main takeaways. |
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STEMming the Tide: STEM Tools for All Levels of EducationUtilizing hands-on curriculum is the key to inspiring our children to pursue STEM-related fields. It is vital that these lesson plans be engaging and accessible to all students. |
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Reality Bytes: Virtual Reality and K-12 EducationMaking learning more personalized, more relevant, and more immersive have always been the moving goal-posts of education. Digital media has helped create infinite opportunities in terms of access to dynamic content, but it’s still, for the most part, an extension of traditional learning: groups of students watching and absorbing static information with minimal interaction. |
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Making Progress: Evaluating the Success of Your MakerspacesDownload the Evaluating the Success of Your Makerspaces resource from our Maker & STEM toolkit to learn what makes a successful makerspace and how that success can be measured. |
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Five Things to Know about Design ThinkingDesign thinking is a pretty hot topic for teachers and for schools. David Jakes has invested five years learning design and shares his five key points to consider. |
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Ed-volve or Ed-perish: The Science That Will Deliver the FutureIt’s not news that the evolution of education technologies and models of transformed learning are moving at the speed of sound. |
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