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Striving for a curriculum of role models

Striving for a curriculum of role models

​[[{“value”:” Striving for a curriculum of role models Published: Stemettes is an award-winning social enterprise, working to connect girls, young women and non-binary people with the world of STEM and STEAM. It is also taking a close look at the UK’s STEM curriculum. Advocacy analyst Callie Winch tells us about the Stemettes’ white paper on equitable curriculum reform and the…

SurrealDB is helping developers consolidate their databases

​[[{“value”:” Brothers Tobie Morgan Hitchcock and Jaime Hitchcock spent years building cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) systems together, ranging from tools to let golf courses measure “golfer engagement” to online platforms designed to assess job candidates. While the systems they built had wildly different functions, the unifying thread running through all of them was a dependence on databases […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Loop Golf looks to take the stress out of booking a tee time

​[[{“value”:” Golf has exploded in popularity in recent years thanks to the pandemic and the popularity of Netflix’s Full Swing documentary series. More than 531 million rounds of golf were played in the U.S. in 2023 alone, according to the National Golf Foundation. Because of this surge in interest, golfers are finding that nabbing a tee […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Bitsensing raises $25M for its high-resolution radar in autonomous driving

​[[{“value”:” Self-driving vehicles rely on many sensors to detect objects and the world around them. The conventional approach is to work with cameras and lidars. But some tech companies and startups have built advanced high-resolution radar technology for autonomous vehicles, also known as 4D imaging radar.   Among them is a South Korea-based startup called bitsensing. The […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Earthquake-Resistant Structures STEM Project

Earthquake-Resistant Structures STEM Project

​[[{“value”:” Post by Kristina Klammer Posted: June 17, 2024 Why do earthquakes happen? How can we protect people and buildings during an earthquake? These are just some of the questions students explore in the Earthquake 5E STEM challenge. In this challenge, students learn about earthquakes and how engineers design structures to be earthquake-resistant. Students work in groups to design their…