Sentences with phrase «tech education nonprofit»

08/19/2017: Hypepotamus (Atlanta), Tech Education Nonprofit Celebrates the Power of A Decade of Digital Learning

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The Santa Rosa - based high - tech tester maker distributed $ 704,000 to local nonprofits last year and $ 200,000 for STEM education.

The vast majority of EP alumni work for other education organizations, including high - performing charter school networks and education nonprofits, state and federal agencies that allocate billions of dollars across the sector and impact millions of children, education policy and advocacy organizations, and ed tech companies.

Education Superhighway, a nonprofit advocacy group backed by tech entrepreneurs, estimates that 72 percent of America's schools lack sufficient Internet infrastructure for digital learning.

Tech Tales, run by Streetside Stories, a nonprofit arts - education organization devoted to cultivating the voices of young students, catches the momentum of the growing digital - storytelling movement and puts it to work in education.

On Wednesday afternoon in Radcliffe Yard, before a tent packed level full with degree candidates in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, keynote speaker Reshma Saujani, M.P.P.» 99, was telling a story about the classroom visit a few years ago that got her angry enough to launch Girls Who Code, a nonprofit that, by doing just what its name says, aims to send more women into tech.

Named as one of the Top 40 Innovators in Educations in 2013 by the Center for Digital Education, Chris Liang - Vergara is currently the Chief of Learning Innovation at LEAP Innovations, a nonprofit in Chicago that supports pilot studies of personalized learning models and provides training space to connect educators, entrepreneurs, tech companies, learning scientists, and students to develop next - generation models, share ideas, and co-develop solutions.

HTLA was conceived as a model school for the 21st Century by education entrepreneur Roberta Weintraub in partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District, a group of leading high - tech firms and nonprofit foundations.

EVALUATING PRIVACY IN ED TECH: The nonprofit Common Sense Media's education initiative this week launched a platform to evaluate the privacy and security of education technology software that's being used in schools across the country.

The DEI Expert Hub informs and connects leaders of schools, school systems, nonprofits, funders, and ed tech companies with experts who bring deep experience assessing, designing and implementing diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in education organizations.

Recognizing the contributions of pioneers in ed - tech and digital learning, Digital Promise — an independent nonprofit organization committed to spurring innovation in education — launched a series of awards showcasing examples of how companies like DreamBox use and conduct research to build better products and services in three categories: Learning Sciences, User Research, and Evaluation Research.

Previously, she was the Director of Community Education for Heifer International, a nonprofit organization dedicated to relieving global hunger and poverty, and also developed and directed the Center for Animal - Human Relationships at the Virginia - Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech, where her focus involved human well - being as it relates to interaction with companion animals.