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Marvel’s Educational & Office Furniture Lines Designed to Enhance Classrooms
Think stability. Think innovation. Marvel has been in the manufacturing business for over 70 years, and all of its furniture is Made in America, never imported. Marvel is never out of stock. It offers adjustable height student desks to make student/teacher interaction easier.
The Focus Desk Series Mobile sit/stand desks that students can adjust with just one hand – no tools or electricity required. Models available for kindergarten through college students. The Marvel Focus Series 32-inch, 48-inch and 60-inch activity tables and desks are ideal for Makerspace activity.
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Bring the Power of Creativity to Your School with New Adobe Tools, Pricing & Lesson Plans
Miami Thursday, January 16, 2020
UBTECH Education Announces Early Innovator Grant Winners
As part of UBTECH Education’s commitment to equity in robotics and engineering instruction, the organization announced the winners of the Early Innovator grant, a competitive program that will provide two years of free robotics kits, curriculum and professional development to K–12 school systems interested in integrating robotics instruction into STEM programs. UBTECH Education launched the Early Innovator program as part of its effort to help address inequities in STEM education, leveling the playing field by exposing more students to robotics and engineering. Grant winners will implement the company’s award-winning UKIT solution and curriculum in their elementary and middle school classrooms. Developed by experts who helped write the NGSS, the UKIT solution immerses students in hands-on learning by merging modular robotics construction with engineering, math and language arts, as well as physical and life sciences.
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MackinMaker Continues to Grow in Makerspaces Across the Country
You’re working hard to prepare your students for a rapidly changing world. Technological advancements like artificial intelligence are automating rote skills and making creative expression, thinking and problem-solving more important than ever. Adobe is especially excited to share details about the following new benefits of Adobe apps. You can give your students access to the same creative tools at home that they have at school. Now your students can do their creative class projects and assignments anywhere on any device – at school, at home or even on the bus. Bring the full set of Adobe Creative Cloud apps to your school for its best price ever – just $5 per K–12 student per year with a minimum purchase of 500 licenses. You can explore the power of creativity with five types of student projects. Teaching your students to create digital experiences is easier than you think. Find out how to integrate five types of creative projects into your curriculum – presentations,
2017 marked the formal beginnings of a new specialty division and accompanying website, www.mackinmaker.com. Tapping into the interest and success of the national Makerspace revolution, MackinMaker® offers customers hundreds of maker-related books, products, professional instruction and professionally curated starter, classic, value and advanced kits for four different levels, designed in-house and created for the novice, all the way to the experienced Makerspace practitioner. “This form of experiential learning is so fresh and vital to helping students learn in a more exciting and impactful way, we decided that now is the perfect time to tap our knowledge-base and professional expertise to create this new division,” states Randal Heise, co-Owner of Mackin. MackinMaker Project Manager, Ethan Heise, remarked, “We have sourced some of today’s most creative and influential products and made them the foundation of this
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