Sentences with phrase «teams of students build»

Diverse teams of students build a stronger school culture by working together on service projects to address community needs.

Having teams of students build their own waterwheels gave them the same opportunity the early colonists had at the Saugus Iron Works — to learn to harness the power of water through trial and error.

Not exact matches

That includes doing market research, developing a business plan, building a team and seeking outside funding — all of which students will do for course credit.

A new course that brings together computer science and business students in a sort of mini Silicon Valley sees interdisciplinary teams develop ideas for software startups — from a platform connecting students for tutoring, to 3D computer puzzles that mimic building IKEA bookshelves.

Students would function as teams under the guidance of faculty members, and the intention and expectation would be to build on the work done in previous years and produce papers that would be of use to the public.

According to a story published on the website, OnlyNews.com, the weekend after the election, a girl's volleyball team from Archer City, TX (about 2 hours north of Dallas) was playing against a team from Fort Hancock ISD in Snyder, TX (a town on the Texas / Mexico border which happens to be 97 percent Hispanic) when students from Archer City starting chanting «Build a Wall!»

Students will rotate through a variety of sports and training disciplines with a focus on fundamental skills and team building.

Australia - based RMIT University has been awarded first place in the Chartered Institute of Building's Global Student Challenge competition, fending off opposition from five other teams from leading international universities.

Team Saltire from Glasgow Caledonian University have won the second annual Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) Global Student Challenge competition.

Under «strict» rules, limited resources, and an «intense» six - week time limit, teams of students are challenged to raise funds, design a team brand, «hone» teamwork skills, and build and program industrial - size robots to play a difficult field game against like - minded competitors.

To prove it, they're using their team of 300 faculty and students and their $ 50 million annual budget to build bots that will explore everything from Mars to your mouth — and perform surgery when they get there.

«We applaud this latest achievement of our many Penn State scientists and students who have helped to build and are helping to develop this innovative new technology and its system of international collaboration among many research teams worldwide,» said Nicholas P. Jones, Penn State's Executive Vice President and Provost.

Undeterred, graduate student Mingyuan Ge and other members of Zhou's team built on their previous work to develop a cost - efficient method of producing porous silicon particles through the simple and inexpensive methods of ball - milling and stain - etching.

To build a prototype of their hybrid system, Shepard's team, led by PhD student Jared Roseman, packaged a CMOS integrated circuit (IC) with an ATP - harvesting «biocell.»

Parker is one of 36 students from Clinton High School in Clinton, Massachusetts, who designed and built Gael Force as their entry in the First (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition, an annual challenge that brings together hundreds of teams of junior high and high school technophiles from around the world.

Thirty - four of the 36 students who make up Clinton High School's First robotics team cluster on the full - size practice playing field they built in a Nypro corporation warehouse.

The contest, organised by PhD student Danny Tarlow of the University of Toronto, Canada, invites people to build algorithms to predict the outcome of the 64 - team tournament.

The 20 Challenges, addressed by a team of education experts, range from «Enable students to build on their own enduring, science - related interests» to «Shift incentives to encourage education research on the real problems of practice as they exist in school settings.»

Up to 100 PhD students are divided into eight or nine groups, each with a «tutor» to encourage them to play a variety of team - building and business games, and to discuss what they are learning about themselves and about how well they work in teams.

Thad Starner at the Georgia Institute of Technology and technical lead on the wearable computer Google Glass, built CHAT for Herzing with a team of graduate students.

Vijayvargia's team of master's degree students recently designed and built a DNA gel electrophoresis unit with power pack and ultraviolet illuminator that would cost as much as $ 2000 commercially; their version cost about $ 35.

So we engaged a team of undergraduate students to build ExoplanetSat, a prototype nanosatellite that could monitor a Sun - like star for two years.

Ames student Fruit - Fly Experiment (AFEx), for which the payload and hardware was planned, designed, built and tested by a team of master's - level and bachelor's - level students with guidance and mentorship from NASA civil servant scientists and engineers at Ames.

Led by Vanderbilt Associate Professor of Astrophysics Kelly Holley - Bockelmann, the FAST program focuses on building serious, long - term research relationships between faculty / student teams and SDSS partner institutions.

The Mars Society and Team Mars are jointly producing a special limited series of t - shirts and rover decals to mark the annual University Rover Challenge (URC), the leading world - wide competition for college students to design, build and field the next generation of Mars rovers.

Summer II (Team - building Research Experience): After the second year of classes at CCP, students return to The Wistar Institute and affiliated biomedical research institutes and companies for a 12 - week full - time Internship.

Summer II (Team - building Research Experience): After the second year of classes at the Community College of Philadelphia, the students return to The Wistar Institute and affiliated biomedical research institutes and companies for a 12 - week paid Internship.

Before getting into team work, students might do a team builder to set the tone — have them do the human knot activity as a fun way to demonstrate collaborative problem solving, or have them each give a brief «weather report» on how they're feeling that day as a way of building trust within the community.

While half of the teams are building the towers, have the other half of the students stand around them in a circular «fishbowl» as silent observers.

As a team we are no strangers to the innovative repurposing of buildings to create outstanding educational spaces that deliver a «wow factor» for both educationalists and students.

This lesson uses group and team discussion, allows the students to share and build on their own ideas therefore encouraging independent discovery and learning and looks into biased writing, identifying biased language and phrases and ends with a final writing task of their own with a peer marking assessment.

A team of college professors and K - 12 teachers discovers how building video games can elevate student performance.

The steps guide teams through three phases — prepare, inquire, and act — and outline the key tasks involved in building the skills necessary for looking at data, identifying a problem of practice, developing an action plan, and assessing to what extent it succeeds in improving student learning.

A personal SEN budget could: add to existing learning support, providing a more consistent offer of support to the child or young person; fund time to bring all key parties together to bridge the gap between home and school / other learning provision and to build a team of dedicated support people (including family); fund some specialist input; fund work experience or a work - based learning opportunity; and add to the technology available to promote a student's individual style of learning.

Your student team will learn how to build, program and control autonomous LEGO robots to complete a series of short, exciting space missions using LEGO Mindstorms Education EV3 sets.

Integrated curricula, team teaching, and technology tools have built up the academic achievement and self - esteem of these rural Louisiana middle school students.

Each year, teams of high school students, coaches, and mentors build game - playing robots that can weigh over 100 pounds.

Built on the work and ideas of the team at King's College London, this is the second part to a unit introducing students to the pedagogy of CRE.

I built a great team and with them helped create a sense of urgency on behalf of students, families, and schools.

Combining their desire for an extracurricular computer activity students would enjoy and the need to alleviate some of the demand for their technological assistance, Cousins and Terry McNitt, another technology educator in the building, hit on the idea of a «tech team.»

Members of Education World's «Principal Files» team recently took time to share the wide variety of ways in which they greet parents and welcome students during August and September in hopes of building a bond that will last the whole year through.

It seems, if our P - Files team is an indicator, that the majority of schools start building bridges to parents and students long before the first day of school.

Julie's leadership had a lot to do with that, as she built a talented team that remained focused on each individual student — not a batch of them — at all times.

If you weren't able to connect during that week, every moment of the #PennFinn13 trip was captured on our team's blog of 30 + entries to encourage continuous dialogue, learning and relationship - building among trip attendees and those students, teachers and leaders who continue to carry the conversation on Twitter and our Facebook page.

«Students wore their shirts and competed in team - building games of human knots and human bridge.

The unpacking process led to building teacher capacity and understanding, and the development of plain language statements that classroom teachers could use to make accurate, fair and consistent judgements about student progress and achievement within and across teams in the school.

Students in Years 5 - 12 are invited to form teams of between one and four members and work with a nominated adult (such as a teacher) as a mentor to design, build, test and create an original video game.

In addition to designing a lander for their egg and earning tokens to purchase the materials to build it in teams, they must also design a lander that will release the egg safely on impact!!!!! In addition to Science and Maths, there is an element of enterprise here too as the students earn tokens through maths challenges, to purchase the materials that they need to build their design.

School leaders play a critical role in fostering schoolwide activities and policies that promote positive school environments, such as establishing a team to address the building climate; adult modeling of social and emotional competence; and developing clear norms, values, and expectations for students and staff members.

Teacher teams designed and built an exemplar model themselves before assigning it to the kids to make sure it was possible to do in the time frame allotted and with the number of students involved.