We saw an awful lot at SXSW, but one of our favorites had to be Girlstart. The Austin-based nonprofits' mission is to empower girls in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). They go about this mission in a variety of different ways: The Girlstart After school program; Girlstart Summer Camp; the STEM Saturday workshops; Community Science Extravaganzas; [...]
You have no doubt heard of eye tracking, but most likely in an analytics context. However, Tobii offers eye tracking in two contexts that are incredibly unique: "Gaze Interaction," and "Assistive Technology Devices & Solutions."
Wandoo Plant is built on the premise that if children are actively learning about and doing the thing that they love, they will transcend their reading levels. With that idea as the foundation, Wandoo Planet seeks to expose children to, and help them uncover more of the things that they enjoy.
Evanced Games is the company behind Wandoo Planet, who we also spoke to at SXSW. Beyond showcasing Wandoo Planet, Evanced Games was at the conference to show off their four other education games.
"Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street" is a question that's been on my mind since the mid 80's and I was still in pre-school. Certainly we could go to Sesame Place in Pennsylvania or visit the Children's Television Workshop. My parents and I would also see Elmo, Big Bird and the [...]
Last night, Wednesday March 5th, RobotsLAB was named the winner of the 2014 LAUNCHedu competition at SXSW. RobotsLAB emerged from more than 80 competitors to win the 3rd annual LAUNCHedu contest.
Carol Jackson has been teaching seventh and eighth graders outside of Chicago for nearly 20 years. Over the last two years she's started to hear a lot about a Minecraft from her students. "We had a halloween party and a bunch of my students came dressed with boxes on their heads" she told us at [...]
Yesterday, during the SXSWEdu expo, we had a chance to speak SparkFun Electronics, a company based out of Boulder Colorado. SparkFun is an open-source hardware company, meaning that they open source the designs and components for all of their hundreds of products. These products range from accelerometers to full robotics kits to cellular modules and [...]
SXSWedu kicked off this morning in Austin Texas and the Techfaster team is on the ground to cover all the action. Today, fifteen public schools from across the country are competing for their part in $2 million dollars in educational prizes from Samsung. Schools from Washington, D.C., Florida, Idaho, Maine, Maryland, Montana, North Carolina, Nebraska, New [...]
