In fact, 43 states report that a third or more of their schools fail to meet the functional requirements necessary to effectively teach laboratory science even though hands-on science education is vital for the jobs of the future.
Her organization connects high school students with underprivileged youths through collaborative hands-on science experiments, with the aim of inspiring all participants to pursue higher education.
The Global Microscience Experiments Project is a hands-on science education project that gives primary and secondary school students as well as university students the opportunity to conduct practical work in physics, chemistry and biology, using kits that are veritable mini-laboratories.
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The Global Microscience Experiment Project is a hands-on science education project that gives primary and secondary school students ( in some countries university students as well) the opportunity to conduct practical work in physics, chemistry and biology, using kits that come with booklets describing possible scientific experiments.
Headquartered in Vanderbijlpark, with clubs throughout Gauteng, South Africa, Trophy Robotics conducts clubs that give children hands-on experience in science and technology using Legos.
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For over a dozen years, the Cape Town Science Centre in South Africa has nurtured budding scientists ages four to eighteen, while rallying educators and families around hands-on math and science discovery.
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Additionally, we recently joined FIRST and Girls, Inc at the National Mentoring Summit, where we talked with others from across the country about the importance of mobilizing mentors with all levels of technical background to help students engage in hands-on technology and science opportunities.
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The main objectives of the Project are to promote practical science experimentation and capacity building for science education, to improve science curricula by inclusion of hands-on experimentation for a better understanding of science and to increase the interest of young people in science so as to promote gender equality, scientific literacy and the choice of a scientific career.
The installations at this interactive science museum are hands on -- they require touching, building, playing, experimenting and thinking.
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The program administered by NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Science Foundation, and the State Department is a hands-on, primary and secondary school-based, science and education program that facilitates collaboration among students, teachers, and scientists around the world as they perform inquiry-based investigations of the environment and Earth systems.
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States can decide whether to adopt the standards, but demand from students, teachers and corporate America makes Wheeler optimistic for the future of hands-on, "really unplugged" science, as Perez put it.
Hands-on DNA workshops are being run by 15 science and discovery centres and museums across the UK, each acting as a specialist hub for schools in their region.
From that group, 20 are selected to become Borlaug-Ruan International Interns, sent to a wide array of international agricultural research centers each summer for hands-on assignment working on some facet of confronting hunger through science.
As an added bonus to saving school districts money that can be reinvested in other educational resources, energy efficiency efforts provide a valuable hands-on learning experience for students that can strengthen their math, science and communication skills, the alliance reports.
Aimed at children between the ages of eight and 12, the projects inside each package teach a basic lesson in science, technology, engineering or math through a hands-on experience.
It risks squeezing out space for practical, hands-on experiments, which are vital to help children develop an interest in science from the start of school.
And, just as the early days of computing were born in the garages of Silicon Valley do-it-yourself-ers, data science is likely to develop first in an ad-hoc, hands-on way.
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His interests in science and technology started at least since he was 11, when he began doing hands-on lab research, working on biofuels research to create ethanol.
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