education news

More than 1,500 high school students from Ohio, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin will compete in the ninth annual FIRST Buckeye Regional Robotics Competition for regional awards and an opportunity to advance to the FIRST Championship competition.

Cisco today signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd. CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd is a private company established to catalyze and accelerate the delivery of various eGovernance services through the CSC framework.

College Summit is honored to announce it has been awarded $125,000 of President Obama's $1.4 million Nobel Peace Prize award, which will support students in communities across the country on their path to higher education.

Together with several prominent German universities and the SAP® Education organization, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) has developed a postgraduate study program as part of its SAP® University Alliances program that culminates in an internationally recognized master’s degree.

Under this initiative, the company is establishing the IBM Institute for Advanced Security to help government and private sector clients, academics and business partners more easily understand, address and mitigate the issues associated with securing cyberspace.

Four SAS customers will highlight the many ways SAS technology improves K-12 education at next week’s Consortium for School Networking annual conference.

NASA is announcing a new initiative to launch small cube-shaped satellites for education and not-for-profit organizations. CubeSats are a class of research spacecraft called picosatellites, having a size of approximately four inches, a volume of about one quart, and weighing no more than 2.2 pounds.

Racial gaps exist in women’s heart-health awareness, women’s knowledge of heart attack warning signs requires attention and nearly half of women report they would not call 9-1-1 if they were having heart attack symptoms, according to new research published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, a journal of the American Heart Association.

Hampton Roads teenagers from Norfolk to the Eastern Shore have only a few weeks left to perfect their entry for a regional robot competition next month in Richmond.

With the support and guidance of the Ministry of Tourism, Oman Sail was set up in 2008 to rekindle Oman’s maritime heritage and to inspire a new generation of young Omanis to take up sailing as recreation and as a competitive sport.

Today, Microsoft Corp. and the Corporation for National and Community Service announced six schools — from California, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia — have been selected to participate in the Service & Technology Academic Resource Team (START).

The Global Monitoring Report, developed annually by an independent team and published by UNESCO, assesses global progress towards the six Education for All goals to which over 160 countries committed themselves in 2000.

The University of Tokyo and the University of California, Berkeley, formalized an agreement yesterday (Thursday, Dec. 17) to encourage research and educational exchanges between the campuses, which are considered to be among the top public universities in the world.

NASA and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) have signed a joint statement that allows for collaboration in lunar and asteroid science research. The partnership recognizes the Saudi Lunar and Near-Earth Object Science Center as an affiliate partner with the NASA Lunar Science Institute at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.

Logitech International (SIX: LOGN) (Nasdaq: LOGI), today announced that it has completed the acquisition of LifeSize Communications, a global leader in high definition (HD) video communication solutions, with more than 9,000 video conferencing customers across 80 countries in large enterprises, small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) and public healthcare, education and government organizations.

Harley-Davidson has announced plans for National Garage Party Month, when dealerships across the country will host Garage Party events during March 2010.

The space program has a unique ability to inspire students to pursue excellence in disciplines that drive science and technology innovation" said Joyce Winterton, assistant administrator for education at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

Collaboration Delivers Desktop as a Service that can be Delivered Anytime, Anywhere; New Multi-Platform Service Optimized for K-12 Schools and Community Colleges

On Thursday 19 November, the five apprentices of Volvo Car Australia's inaugural Apprenticeship Program will graduate as technicians securing ongoing employment within the Volvo dealer network.

After three days of seminars, teacher exhibitions and judging by an internationally renowned panel of education experts, today Microsoft Partners in Learning announced the winners of the 2009 Worldwide Innovative Teacher Awards at the Worldwide Innovative Education Forum.