Author Archives: dkohn96

Free Textbook Platform OpenStax Reducing College Costs.

Posted on August 19, 2018 by dkohn96

Diverse Education (8/6) runs an article describing the Rice University nonprofit initiative OpenStax, launched in 2012 “to provide free textbooks and digital resources.” The program “is growing and helping to impact the cost of a college education.” Rice “recently announced … Continue reading →

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Tennessee Coding School Training Young Adults As Software Engineers.

Posted on August 19, 2018 by dkohn96

The Memphis (TN) Commercial Appeal (8/4, Lopez) reports Code Crew Code School in Memphis, Tennessee “is training 16 young adults to become entry-level software engineers, earning $60,000 a year, for free.” The paper says that four years of training are … Continue reading →

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Watch “Five Robot Stories You’ll Go Nuts and Bolts Over” on YouTube

Posted on August 16, 2018 by dkohn96
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Getting low-income kids into jobs by getting them into career-themed high schools

Posted on August 3, 2018 by dkohn96

https://hechingerreport.org/supply-and-demand-getting-low-income-kids-into-better-jobs-by-getting-them-into-better-schools/

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Watch “Remembering 1968: How Intel was born” on YouTube

Posted on July 24, 2018 by dkohn96
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Girl Scouts Roll Out 30 New Badges, Including Cybersecurity and Robotics | Inside Edition

Posted on July 18, 2018 by dkohn96

https://www.insideedition.com/girl-scouts-roll-out-30-new-badges-including-cybersecurity-and-robotics-45181

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DARPA Wants Your Insect-Scale Robots for a Micro-Olympics – IEEE Spectrum

Posted on July 18, 2018 by dkohn96

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/darpa-wants-your-insect-scale-robots-for-a-micro-olympics

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Watch “We’re Close to a Universal Quantum Computer, Here’s Where We’re At” on YouTube

Posted on July 18, 2018 by dkohn96
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Saturn and Its Moon Enceladus Talk To Each Other. The Sound Is Perfectly Cosmic and Eerie.

Posted on July 11, 2018 by dkohn96

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/solar-system/a22105730/saturn-enceladus-plasma-exchage/

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Which is the fastest growing programming language? Hint, it’s not JavaScript – TechRepublic

Posted on July 11, 2018 by dkohn96

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/which-is-the-fastest-growing-programming-language-hint-its-not-javascript/

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