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SpaceShipOne lands in the classroom
June 19, 2013 – There’s more to the latest glider kit from Pitsco Education than meets the eye – there’s decades of groundbreaking history behind it. Developed by Jeff Rutan for Pitsco, the new SpaceShipOne Foamie Glider is like many other model . . .
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New guides give TETRIX® System a leg up
PITTSBURG, KS (May 28, 2013) -- Pitsco Education's TETRIX® Building System is getting a boost with the release of the TETRIX Builder's Guide and A Teacher's Guide to Integrating Simple Machines in Robotics. The original 24-page TETRIX user guide . . .
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Pitsco enters into service agreement with LEGO® Group
PITTSBURG, KS – The LEGO Group of Billund, Denmark, and Pitsco
Education of Pittsburg, Kansas, have entered into a service agreement
that will see all LEGO® Education products for North America continue to
be shipped out of and serviced through Pitsco’s facilities. As part . . .
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The Stars of the Star Academy
PITTSBURG, KS (May 1, 2013) – Pitsco Education has awarded $500 scholarships to two 2013 Star Academy Program students who have found success in the acceleration program and embody its ideals. All finalists in the scholarship competition were nominated by teachers . . .
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Pitsco miniSystems work with National Instrument’s myDAQ
April 25, 2013 – A complete and functional closed-loop control system that encourages high school and college students to experiment arrives with a down-to-earth price tag.
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LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 Platform Available August 1, 2013
April 24, 2013 – Announced in January 2013, the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 platform is the third generation of LEGO Education robotics technology designed for classroom use. It is a full teaching solution developed with . . .
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Working together to maximize STEM value
PITTSBURG, Kansas (April 8, 2013) – School administrators from across the region came together to experience and discuss the transformative power of hands-on STEM education at Pitsco today. In recent years, educators from around the country have increasingly emphasized . . .
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LEGO® Education's WeDo STEM Expansion Pack Encourages STEM and Language Arts Learning
April 11, 2013 -- LEGO® Education introduced the LEGO Education WeDo STEM Expansion Pack at the 2013 National Science Teachers Association. The new Expansion Pack incorporates reading, writing, and vocabulary activities with STEM . . .
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LEGO® Education Announces 2013 LEGO Education Advisory Panel (LEAP) Members
Fifty educators from across the United States and Canada were selected by LEGO® Education to join the 2013 LEGO Education Advisory Panel (LEAP) and provide product feedback to the LEGO Education Innovation and Marketing teams.
LEAP members collaborate with LEGO Education . . .
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Defining STEM site gives educators a voice
March 19, 2013 – Feeling lost amid the overwhelming amount of STEM
education information out there? Tired of listening to all the high-tech
hype? Need to bounce your ideas off someone who isn’t trying to sell
you the latest classroom gadget? If you answered yes . . .
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LEGO® Education Expands Learning Offerings in 2013 Catalog
Inspiring students through hands-on creativity and problem solving is the cornerstone of the learning continuum provided by LEGO®
Education. The 2013 catalog offers a wide selection of products that provide
educators from preschool to university with viable, 21st-century
solutions for their . . .
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Pitsco’s math IPLs™ move to the Cloud, gain any-time accessibility
February 4, 2013 – Pitsco’s Individualized Prescriptive Lessons™ (IPLs), with real-world threads; relevant storylines; and diagnostic, mastery-based lessons offer a new approach to algebra. Now, all 193 of the popular math lessons have moved to the Cloud, . . .
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2013 Pitsco Education catalog: Hydraulic kits, air-powered racers
January 16, 2013 – Challenge the minds of students with some of Pitsco Education’s new STEM-based offerings. Featured in the 2013 Big Book catalog, these items include the AP Bottle Racer and Launcher; four new hydraulic-powered syringe kits: B-Bot Biped . . .
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Next Generation LEGO MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 Platform
January 7, 2013 – Today, LEGO® Education announced the LEGO MINDSTORMS®
Education EV3 platform, the next generation of robotics for the
classroom, continuing 15 years of MINDSTORMS robotics technology for
education. The EV3 platform was created based on feedback . . .
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2013 RoboRescue Challenge hones skills
December 18, 2012
– The 2013 RoboRescue Challenge: Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD)
tasks students with creating a mobile robot like those employed by
emergency service personnel (fire, police, military). Students design
the robot to secure an area by locating, . . .
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Santa Ana (CA) USD takes nontraditional, blended approach to Algebra
SANTA ANA, California – “We had to find a way to get the attention of our students by making Algebra not only fun, but relevant to them,” says Jeff Bishop, principal at Sierra Preparatory Academy in Santa Ana, California. That is a familiar challenge for many schools in . . .
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