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1. Microsoft wants OneNote to be the go-to classroom app
(English/engadget)

Microsoft has been quietly focusing on the education market with its OneNote app for some time now. It's offered free Office 365 subscriptions for students, an integrated math tutor and a classroom-centric ...

2. Google gives students interactive tools for STEM and internet safety
(English/engadget)

Google launched a new browser-based Google Earth this past April, adding educational tools to make it easier for teachers to show the world off to students without having to leave the classroom. The company ...

3. From Sketch to CAD to 3D Print
(English/instructables)

When I'm staffing at the Invention Studio, I like to teach skills that aren't typically practiced among engineering students - particularly sketching. While teaching a colleague to do quick sketching by ...

4. Evolution Will No Longer Be Taught in Turkish Schools
(Italiano/gizmodo)

Claiming that evolution is “debatable, controversial, and too complicated for students,” Turkey’s board of education has decided to stop teaching Darwinian natural selection in its schools. The move has ...

5. Microsoft Whiteboard app leaks -- download Windows 10's newest inking tool
(English/Betanews)

... Windows 10, but we can also get hands on with it. The tool is part of Microsoft's recent education focus, and it gives students and tutors the chance to collaborate on an interactive whiteboard. Features ...

6. Cluster kids: Meet the students giving all for science and HPC glory
(English/TheRegister)

If LINPACK would pack wood... and other computer sports posers HPC Blog  As part of our continuing coverage of the most exciting events in the computer sporting world, Student Cluster Competitions, we ...

7. Self-driving shuttles are coming to the University of Michigan
(English/engadget)

The University of Michigan is a hotbed for self-driving car research, so it stands to reason that students and faculty should use self-driving vehicles to get around, right? The university clearly thinks ...

8. Gear, racks, software hacks – what the cluster kids are rockin' at ISC17
(English/TheRegister)

Students show all at Frankfurt HPC showdown HPC Blog  The tension is rising at the ISC17 Student Cluster Competition being held this week in Frankfurt, Germany. Eleven university teams are vying for the ...

9. Whirly Birds - a Study in Hydrodynamics and Biomimetics
(English/instructables)

I know. It's a mouthful, isn't it? But this is a great project.I've been doing it for a long time, and every time, the students love it, whether they are in 2nd grade or 6th grade.An important disclaimer ...

10. Dashcam video shows killing of Philando Castile
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... second thought, and that the rush of killing people leads to "the best sex of their lives" In the class recorded for “Do Not Resist,” Grossman at one point tells his students that the sex they have ...

11. Watch These Impossibly Precise Japanese School Kids Set a New Jump Rope World Record
(Italiano/gizmodo)

With a mind-blowing display of precision and timing, 14 students from the Fuji Municipal Harada elementary school in Fuji, Shizuoka, Japan, set a new Guinness World Record for the most skips over a single ...

12. Rope-skipping world record set by Japanese schoolchildren
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... 12 skippers leap over the rope more than 18 times, setting incredible new group record of 225 skips. The kids take the record from rival Japanese students from Hiromi Elementary School, who achieved ...

13. Cluster-wrestling kids pimp their HPC rides in Frankfurt
(English/TheRegister)

This one goes to 11: More rig pr0nz from students at ISC17 HPC Blog  Eleven teams at the ISC17 Student Cluster Competition will go head to head live in glamorous Frankfurt, Germany, this week. Yep, this ...

14. Brit uni blabs students' confidential information to 298 undergrads
(English/TheRegister)

Spreadsheet of extenuating circumstances attached to email The University of East Anglia has sent almost 300 undergraduates an email detailing other students' extenuating circumstances.… Read all  ...

15. In Rhode Island, students and parents must let schools spy on them day and night through their laptops
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

A majority of the Rhode Island school districts with "1-1" programs where each student is issued a laptop have a blanket policy of spying on the students and everything they do on their laptops, during, ...

16. 5 Minute Stir-Fried Spicy Tofu and Beans
(English/instructables)

... guide is dedicated to those students. It's time for us to eat better and begin taking care of our b... By: TechMartian Continue Reading » Read all  ...

17. Stanford Robots Load a Hovering Drone, Solve a Marble Maze, and More
(English/ieespectrum)

Students in Stanford’s experimental robotics class teach industrial robots new tricks Read all  ...

18. Giving vegetables seductive names gets people to eat them
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Boring vegetables need better marketing. That's the gist of a new study from Stanford university psychologists who gave cafeteria vegetables more "indulgent" names to see if students would buy them more ...

19. The Trailer for the Flatliners Remake Enters the World of Competitive Dying 
(Italiano/gizmodo)

If you know the 1990 film, the story of the new Flatliners should not be a huge shock. Five medical students start an “experiment” where they stop each other’s hearts and then restart them, allowing them ...

20. Microsoft Surface Laptop Review
(English/ChipChic)

... is designed with students in mind. But after spending nearly a week with it, we can testify to the fact that more than […] This story was originally published at Microsoft Surface Laptop Review  ...

21. Principal offers students $100 to stay off their screens
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... games, phones, tablets, everything — for the 11 Tuesdays that we have of summer break." The students must provide two signed letters from adult witnesses to be eligible for the cash price. Read all ...

22. A Diversity Success Story from the Apps for Ag Hackathon Competition
(English/CircleID)

...  Hackathons building diversity in tech Tamimi has now become an evangelist for hackathons, and is working to bring more women and students to this year's Apps for Ag hackathon. She knows first-hand ...

23. Experimental 2-year Holberton School aims to train diverse group of software engineers, takes 17% of graduates' salaries for 3 years instead of up front tuition (Katie Benner/New York Times)
(English/Techmeme)

... SAN FRANCISCO — Like many computer science students, Max Johnson spends his days learning new programming languages … Read all  ...

24. Weather Monitoring System Using TIVA
(English/instructables)

Hi There Everyone,This is Tahir Ul Haq and introduces you to another member in the family.This time the project is named as Weather Monitoring System. This is another TIVA based project presented by students ...

25. Beautiful popsicles made from polluted water
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

National Taiwan University of Arts students created this genius piece of activist art, popsicles made from the water of polluted local sources. From the translated project description: We personally ...