Sentences with phrase «d models students»

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Founded in 2012 by a group of San Diego State University students who built their own 3D printer after having trouble finding an affordable one, Robo 3D delivered its first consumer printer model in 2013.

The Show Me Cost Rica Project project taught me to become more flexible, open - minded, and self - aware in my daily actions to remain a positive role model for the students who would come after me.

The tutoring industry's business model has always been to charge students by the hour for each session.

The model, called Lean LaunchPad, is based on a method of starting new companies that has been largely championed by Steve Blank, a serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur who partnered with UCSF in 2013 to offer the program for students with ideas for health - related businesses.

Coursera, like most MOOC providers, has had moderate success sorting out a revenue model (Coursera charges students for identity verification and certificates of completion), but it will need to do a lot more than that to justify the $ 85 million in venture funding it's raised.

In an announcement on Wednesday, EDI stated that the Model X would be part of its Platinum Driving Course, a set of lessons aimed at training student drivers in the operation of high - performance, luxury vehicles.

Engineering students from the University of Illinois have come up with a miniature model of Elon Musk's hyperloop concept proving that the high speed human transport system is feasible albeit on a scale of 1:24.

Financial Aid: In 2017, for the first time ever, America's public universities received more revenue from tuition than they did from tax dollars — a funding model that places a higher burden on students and their families and risks widening economic inequality, even as the population of would - be students becomes more diverse.

Each year, we will issue a handful loans to NFTE student entrepreneurs who have a subscription business model and actually want to launch their business.

At Tesla, Elon has overseen product development and design from the beginning, including the all electric Tesla Roadster, Model S and Model X. Transitioning to a sustainable energy economy, in which electric vehicles play a pivotal role, has been one of his central interests for almost two decades, stemming from his time as a physics student working on ultracapacitors in Silicon Valley.

Her books with Rita Nakashima Brock, whom I also claim as a PhD student, are models of the sort of writing from which I have hopes of spiritual change in the church.

Moreover, the standard of comparison would be not the performance of other students but the best available models of what is true and excellent.

If anything, this protest suggests that the college has excelled in its stated goal of allowing «students to observe different models of achievement, then set their own course with conviction.»

One of their students was Nicholas of Cusa (c.1400 - 1464) who has often been regarded as the model of a «Renaissance man»; he became a cardinal, yet he was also a mathematician, a diagnostic physician, and an experimental scientist.

It should be pointed out, though, that nothing in the social - constructivist position legitimates the denial of rights... Assertive gay liberationists have argued that it may be strategically wiser to concede the possibility that a few students might be influenced to become gay by having an openly gay teacher as a role model, and to say, «So what?»

The Model United Nations movement, for example, has become something of an international phenomenon and yet, despite the Vatican's presence with permanent observer status at the UN, it is virtually unheard of for students to assume the role of the Vatican at such conferences.

As early as 1917 he was protesting against a then - current model of students as portmanteaux, to be packed with «inert ideas,» which were then unpacked on occasions of external examinations3 (The contents, on that theory, were the mental images which have passed since Locke as «ideas» in the British empiricist tradition.)

I have tried to draw from the history of spirituality to acquaint students with workable models.

The theological school, for its part, would assume responsibility for course work that studies Christian congregations in all their variety, as well as course work that focuses on models of practice, thus cultivating students» capacities to reflect on ministerial practice (cf. 121 - 25).

He does many things that would make him a great role model for our students.»

Having failed to follow McGirt's instructions to box and move in that fight, Gatti was a model student in the rematches.

(While this was also arguably the original goal of academies / universities centuries ago, the modern university model has become a vocational school of sorts — preparing students for success in future endeavors, rather than seeking discovery, enlightenment, and progress through the efforts of its constituents.

The Extraordinary Courage Award recognizes student - athletes and coaches who have persevered through challenging circumstances and overcome adversity to develop and excel as model participants.

He has been a model student and citizen ever since.

She has spoken to a variety of groups — including parent educators, psychology students, conference attendees, and juvenile probation officers — about parenting as a prevention model for societal violence.

IRONWOOD — A national program aimed at bringing positive male role models into the lives of students has made its way to Ironwood.

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

He has served on several professional committees including the NATA CUATC Value Model, board member of the Athletic Trainers of Massachusetts, and the MIT Division of Student Life Professional Development Committee.

IRONWOOD — A national program aimed at bringing positive male role models into the lives of students has made its way... Read More»

I'm drawn to educational models like Expeditionary Learning, which emphasize long - term, project - based learning and use assessments in which students are much more involved - for example, student - led conferences where students themselves help to assess how they've done.

¨ Gloria Giarratano, LSUMC School of Nursing, New Orleans (a study of nursing students who had been educated in a radical feminist model to determine how they had fared in their hospital jobs);

«Breakfast After the Bell,» meaning any service model that provides students the opportunity to eat breakfast after the official start of the school day, has proven to be effective in transforming school breakfast programs and increasing participation by students from all income groups.

While it does not fit the model of a college town, Garden City is also the site of Adelphi University, which has almost 8,000 undergraduate students.

Schools have a real opportunity to model healthy choices that will benefit students their entire lives.»

We have found that our relationship based, holistic model is more effective in allowing students to identify and address the factors that lead to anger, anxiety and poor choices.

Some of the cooks have even become mentors and role models for the students.

Second, raising the threshold also undercuts the cost share model of CEP, where schools pick up costs for the very small percentage of their students who would not otherwise qualify for free or reduced meals.

Figueroa has provided an excellent, real - time model for ways knowledge of different food options can be a huge education opportunity, especially for lower income students.

Under the budget language, the department would be required to develop a new evaluation system based on a «matrix» model, which would include student performance on state exams as well as observations but differs from the current model in that it is not based on percentages.

She has also called on teachers to be effective role models to students and guide them to become successful future leaders.

In the last decade, the Early College High School model has become increasingly popular across the country as educators are finding new ways to prepare students to enter the job market.

The Amagansett artist and Columbia University grad student recently discovered that Ms. Daniels, the porn star whose alleged 2006 affair with the president has captured international attention, had modeled for her in 2002 under a different name.

«They tend to be relatively cost - effective for sponsoring governments because each of the programs use a «last - dollar» model whereby the state subsidizes tuition costs after the student has exhausted all other available state and federal financial aid.»

A state Supreme Court Justice has ruled in favor of a Great Neck teacher who sued the state over its teacher evaluation model after she received an «ineffective» on the rating tied to students» test performance — one year after being rated «effective» for similar scores.

REVERE, Mass. (AP)-- Governor Deval Patrick has asked a task force to develop a model plan that Massachusetts school districts can use to keep students, teachers and staff safe in emergency situations.

«While the funding and educational models of our schools have largely stayed the same, the needs of students and communities have continued to increase,» one superintendent from the Mohawk Valley told the survey.

Parents are allowed to have their students opt out of sex ed, but the New York City Parents» Coalition statement said choosing not to take the class requires «a lengthy and arduous process» that results in no sex ed rather than an alternative model.

Meanwhile, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Friday hailed the successful rescue of the six kidnapped students of Igbonla Model College, Epe, assuring that the government would utilise the academic break to reinforce security in all schools in the State, especially in the suburb and riverine areas to prevent a reoccurrence.

Raubvogel, the school's principal, said moving down to the Financial District would give the students, especially the boys, more positive role models along with much - needed facilities.

Generally, they show that free schools haven't improved student attainment to such a degree that the model is desirable for other countries to copy.