Darden, who worked at NASA for 40 years, was not portrayed in the movie “Hidden Figures,” but knew the lead characters: Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson — African American female mathematicians who aided NASA during the early years of the space program. The movie was nominated for Best Picture at this year’s Oscars and has made over $100 […]

Stephen Grzybowski, a STEAM Museum presenter, facilitated a STEAM Robotics exercise and showed what a robot could do to the New London Elementary School students before allowing them to experience hands-on educational exhibits. STEAM stands for science, technology, engineering, art and math. NEW LONDON — Olivia Yetter and Pailee Wilson each enjoyed the interactive robot [...]

Australia’s biggest student film competition, Screen It, is a free annual competition open to all Australian primary and secondary school students. This year, there were 587 entries created by 2,521 primary and secondary school students, and we spoke to some of the winners to find out what they got out of the experience. The Screen [...]

At the turn of the 21st century, public interest in games as learning tools took hold. In the eyes of digital game-based learning proponents, the general public and today’s teachers finally understood something that students and educational researchers knew all along. To put it in the words of an elementary student at the 2004 Serious […]