226 Results Are Tagged With "Science and Technology"

Tuesday, March 1, 2016 - Saturday, December 31, 2016
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COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE USE OF VIDEO GAMES INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM IN PRIMARY, SECONDARY AND HIGHER EDUCATION IN URUGUAY, USING A PROSPECTIVE APPROACH.

The present research, based in the School of Humanities and Education of the University of Montevideo, focuses on video games as cultural and educational tools in the three levels of primary, middle and higher education. It is a comparative and prospective study that incorporates the future in order to better acknowledge the present possibilities. The main problem is that multimedia learning systems based on games and educational video games in particular tend to be more like video-games than educational tools or vice versa, which leaves either students or teachers dissatisfied with their use.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - Wednesday, December 30, 2020
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MAYEIN Mobile Library, Technology, and Civic Resource Initiative in Alaka Community

As part of its mission to bridge existing gaps in literacy, leadership, technology and civic knowledge amongst Nigerian teenagers and early youths, especially those of low income, Mayein operates mobile library services in the underserved Alaka Community of Ibadan, Oyo State. The Project offers books, literacy materials and other mobile library services, provides practical demonstration and training on how to use technology and relevant tools for learning ? e.g. Google, Micro-soft, Encarta etc, to children and teenagers who lack access and also demonstrates practical volunteerism, community action as well as participatory civic skills to children and teenagers in Alaka community, Oyo State,Nigeria.

AEIF Winners Culminate with National Competition

Young Tunisian Coders Academy (YTCA) capped months of hard work teaching computer coding to students 10-15 years old across Tunisia with a national competition in Scratch computer programming.

Monday, August 1, 2016 - Sunday, July 30, 2017
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ICT Toolkit 4 ALL Women

Empowering Women and girls in Cameroon's villages with an adequate ICT training with the help of provided modern toolkits that will increase their chances of getting employed, help them in better managing their businesses or spur them unto startups, and valorise a woman's role in the development of her community.
Tuesday, March 1, 2016 - Thursday, December 1, 2016
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STEM SUMMER BOOTS CAMP FOR GIRLS IN NIGERIA

PHASE 4 and North Stream of an annual free Residential STEM SUMMER BOOTS CAMP for Nigerian girls aged 13-18. Date: August 1st-7th 2016 Theme: Lets put an "A" in STEM to make STEAM for National Development Venue: Abuja, Nigeria Target Audience: Girls qualified to sit for 2016/2017 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination with Exceptional Academic Excellence in High (Secondary) School STEM based Subject from the nineteen (19) Northern States of Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory Abuja.
Sunday, June 30, 2013 - Wednesday, May 31, 2017
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Enhanced Drought and Heat Stress Tolerance in Crops

Physiological, biochemical and molecular aspects of abiotic stress tolerance in major rainfed crops.
Sunday, November 1, 2015 - Sunday, July 31, 2016
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From mutations to modules: Exact algorithms for computational cancer genomics

This project is carried out as part of Gunnar Klau's nine month sabbatical as Fulbright Visiting Professor in the Computer Science Department of Brown University in Providence, USA. It is a collaboration with Prof. Ben Raphael and his group. Prof. Klau develops algorithms to analyze combinatorial patterns in massive cancer genomics data such as produced by international consortia such as TCGA or ICGC. The aim is to discover individual cancer-driving events to better understand and classify different types of cancers.

TechWoman Inspires Young Girls in Tunisia

Upon her return to Tunisia after the TechWomen exchange program, Amel Ghouila paid the experience forward by mentoring young girls in the international Technovation competition and continues to promote STEM education in her community.

Saturday, December 26, 2015 - Sunday, November 6, 2016
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Kids Against Climate Change

Looking to build a small international coalition of elementary/middle school teachers (working with 9-13-year-olds) to join me in presenting at NAGC conference in Orlando, Florida, USA, November 2016. The topic of the presentation will be using the website kidsagainstclimatechange.com in the classroom to encourage international collaboration among children, encouraging them to work together to slow down global warming.
Wednesday, June 1, 2016 - Tuesday, August 30, 2016
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IBBESS: International BioBasedEconomy Student Symbiosum

Imagine. A world without fossil resources. No phones (plastics). No guitar strings (nylon). No red summer dress (polyester). We are skating on thin ?oil?. We inspire students to work on the solution: a biobased economy. When all products from energy, food, materials to chemicals are derived from non-food biomass our lifestyle can persist. The International BioBased Economy Student SymbioSUM (IBBESS) - a Conference plus ThinkTank on the biobased economy - helps you built your network to experts in high profile companies, academia and politics with potential job opportunities awaiting you. Be the CHANGE in a promising industry! Join us! Mail to fons.janssen@ibbess.org

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