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The Evolution of ELMO USA For over 45 years, ELMO USA has been a leader in K–12 education technology in the United States.

The award-winning document cameras have long paved the way within the visual presenter space, reinventing the standard time and time again. In recent years, ELMO has further taken decades of experience and research to develop a full lineup of classroom technology solutions that includes wireless solutions, audio systems, student response systems, collaboration devices and more.

ELMO is excited to announce the next stage of the company’s almost 100-year legacy as it expands its focus to include complete K–12 classroom solutions. By offering reliable, affordable, customizable and user-friendly products all operating within the same ecosystem, ELMO’s complete solutions will streamline classroom workflow and create an even more immersive learning experience for students.

One solution currently in development is ELMO Prime Academic, a cloud-based collaboration software that will serve as a central hub for all classroom resources.

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Val Verde USD Students Demonstrate Presentation Skills at CUE 2019

Students from Val Verde Unified School District (USD) visited the HoverCam booth at CUE 2019 and demonstrated their presentation skills for attendees.

The school district recently outfitted some of its elementary school classrooms with the Pilot 3 podiums as well as HoverCam’s CenterStage interactive flat panels (IFPs).

“HoverCam solutions have been essential to the workflow in our classrooms and have introduced a new level of engagement. Our teachers feel in touch with advanced technology while our students are excited to be learning,” said Michael McCormick, Superintendent at Val Verde USD. “Touring the conference floor granted us a great opportunity to visit HoverCam again and have our students show off everything they’ve learned with the help of their incredible technology.”

To the delight of attendees and the HoverCam team, the elementary school students

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What’s Next for 2018 ISTE Best of Show Winner UBTECH Education

By Jamie Sachs, Senior Director of Education, UBTECH

At last year’s ISTE conference, “Tech & Learning” recognized our UKIT curricula and the Yanshee robot as two of the event’s most outstanding Ed Tech products. We were excited to gain this recognition, and we’re more thrilled than ever to participate in this ISTE 2019, because we’ve been up to quite a bit!

1. UKITs are reshaping STEM classrooms.

UKITs combine modular robotics construction with engaging, hands-on STEM+C curriculum. They’re different from other supplemental STEM solutions because they offer both high-quality modular builds and expert-authored curriculum that supports teachers and students alike.

We’re particularly excited about our work with the Center for Educational Innovation (CEI) as part of Project BOOST, a multi-faceted school-based program for

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Trinseo Provides Plastics for Smart Outlet

Trinseo plastics are intrinsic to the products we use in our lives every day. One of these products is the new smart outlet from Currant, a California-based startup that creates smart home products designed to give consumers control over their homes – and their energy consumption.

Currant introduced the Currant Smart Outlet, the first outlet on the market powered by artificial intelligence (AI), in November 2018. Consumers simply plug their home devices or appliances into it and, with a special app, receive a breakdown of their power usage in real time as well as personalized, easy-to-implement suggestions on controlling their energy expenses.

According to Hasty Granbery, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Currant, “Idle energy usage resulting from always-on devices is a larger problem than most people realize, costing Americans 19 billion dollars per year.”

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Bring the Power of Creativity to Your School with New Adobe Tools, Pricing & Lesson Plans 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.

Visit Adobe at booth #1900 to find out how you can develop your students’ creativity by teaching them to make their own engaging digital experiences. Adobe will be presenting demo sessions every

hour on the hour – including illustrations in math, videos in science and presentations in ELA and beyond – and you can try Adobe creative apps firsthand. If you can’t attend a particular session, select Adobe presenters are being featured on Adobe’s social channels (@AdobeEdu) and you can join Adobe for an ISTEinspired Twitter chat (#CreateEdu) on Thursday at 3:30pm PT. Adobe is especially excited to share details about the following new benefits

MackinMaker Continues to Grow in Makerspaces Across the Country 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 growing new site. To date, we have hundreds of essential products with hundreds more

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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.

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ready to come online before the end of the year.

Our kits have been flying off our shelves, proving to us that a maker kit is the ideal way to get started in this broad arena.”

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The Benefits of Educational Technology

By Liana Li, Vice President, QOMO

Technology has completely transformed everyday life, from the way we keep in touch with friends and family to the way we shop for clothes or order dinner. With each technological advancement, our world gets more efficient and more individualized to our specific needs and preferences. This is the world the children of today have been born into.

It’s natural, then, that many kids are struggling to fit into the traditional learning model. The experience of being in a traditional classroom is at odds with the almost constant stimulation and fast pace of a technologically-advanced world.

The typical school day, for some kids, is almost unbearably rigid.

Incorporating even a few educational technology devices in the classroom can help acclimate today’s students to the learning environment. With classroom technology, teachers can level the play-

ing field for students with different learning styles, make project work more efficient, increase overall student engagement and accommodate students with disabilities.

1. Making learning more individualized.

One of the greatest advantages of educational technology is the ability to cater to multiple learning styles at the same time.

Every kind of student, from creatives to problem solvers and visual to kinesthetic learners, can benefit from an interactive touchscreen display. Whether you use an interactive whiteboard, interactive laser projector, or interactive panel, QOMO’s touchscreen displays can instantly foster a collaborative and equitable learning environment.

When you implement a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) strategy in your classroom using wireless screen sharing, students are able to inter-

Ease Your Mind, Save Time & Money with TIPS The Interlocal Purchasing System (TIPS) is a National Purchasing Cooperative that provides a proven, streamlined process that eliminates purchasing stress for education organizations. TIPS is housed and managed by the Region 8 Education Service Center.

Membership in a purchasing cooperative offers public agencies: access to competitively procured contracts with over 2,000 quality vendors; savings of time and financial resources necessary to fulfill bid requirements; enables members to purchase on an “as needed” basis; assistance with purchasing process by qualified TIPS staff; and access to pric-

ing based on a “national” high-profile contract.

Member entities can view all of the compliance documentation for each vendor and each contract they hold on the website. This information is located under the Due Diligence tab for every TIPS Awarded Vendor. EDGAR, DMWE and HUB Vendors are also available and searchable on the website for your convenience.

TIPS Understands Purchasing TIPS understands your time, your budget and regulations you are required to follow. The contracts are written by the

Genius Plaza’s Path to Democratizing Education Do you remember your time in school?

Do you still keep in touch with classmates from middle school or high school? Do you still talk to your friends from college? You might have answered these questions without giving it a second thought, but it’s not the case for many kids around the world.

According to the United Nations, over 265 million kids around the world do not have access to education or are currently not enrolled in school. Twentytwo percent of those 265 million kids are of primary school age. What are the rea-

sons? Some children live in conflict zones; others live in impoverished communities; some children might not be allowed to go to school because they’re girls; others don’t attend school because their families need them to work to bring that additional income to support the family; there might not be a teacher or a school, etc.

The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) indicates that it might take up to 70 years in some areas for children to have access to primary schools.

ASHA Continues to Promote Healthy Use of Popular Technology Recently, the American SpeechLanguage-Hearing Association (ASHA) launched the Healthy Communication & Popular Technology Initiative (www.communicationandtech.org), which encourages moderate use of popular

technology. It focuses on providing practical advice to individuals and families to develop responsible popular tech habits; conducting communication health awareness campaigns that promote balanced use of popular technolo-

EdTech Show Daily act with the content at their own pace and make personalized annotations on individual interactive monitors or their personal smartphones or tablets.

2. Improving student engagement and classroom participation.

Student engagement is rarely (if ever) at 100 percent. Teachers too can have a hard time keeping personal problems, wandering thoughts and just straight up sleepiness at bay during school hours.

One method to improve classroom engagement and focus is offering individualized attention, something the QOMO wireless tablets and interactive monitors make possible. With wireless devices in hand, teachers are free to roam and make eye contact, without having to turn their backs on students while referencing the material on the projector screen or whiteboard.

QOMO’s audience response system can balance your classroom participation strategy, allowing introverted stu-

dents to demonstrate that they’re following along without being singled out. In fact, response audience devices can generate an even livelier discussion by giving a voice to every student.

Curious about how to get started with technology in your classroom?

Once you’ve decided to take advantage of the numerous benefits of educational technology, you’ll need help determining which strategies and devices are best for your particular classroom. That’s where QOMO comes in. Get in touch with a member of our team to request a demo, or give us some details about your educational technology needs so we can reach out to you.

For more information, go to www.qomo.com, call 866.990.7666, email hello@qomo.com or stop by booth #2446.

General Counsel, Rick Powell. As a former Director of Purchasing, he used to be in the same position you are in, asking himself, “Is this compliant?” “Can this satisfy all of my bid requirements?” “Will I pass my audit?”

Let TIPS help ease your mind and save you time and money by joining as a member.

Membership with TIPS is completely free with no purchasing obligation or liability. TIPS prides itself on its “Purchasing Made Personal” mantra while further ensuring compliant purchasing from high performance vendors.

Join TIPS for free at www.tipsusa.com/membership.cfm.

TIPS Seeks to Meet Members’ Needs TIPS also works diligently to meet the needs of its member entities.

In doing so, its General Counsel, previously a purchasing director for many years, creates RFP categories specific to those needs. TIPS is continuously approving high quality vendors that provide their products and services to members nationwide. If you would like to view open RFP categories and have the opportunity to join TIPS as an awarded vendor, enroll in the eBid system at tips.ionwave.net.

Genius Plaza thinks children must have access to quality education regardless of their geographical location.

Genius Plaza is first and foremost an educational platform that is available for everyone, but it aims to connect with the underserved. Technology is already revolutionizing the way we interact with one another, but Genius Plaza is using technology to connect and reach many students around the world.

Genius Plaza’s goal is to level the playing field with Ed Tech and make quality educational experiences available to every child around the world. It

shouldn’t matter if the school district doesn’t have enough resources or can’t afford textbooks.

Education shouldn’t be out of reach for the economically disadvantaged. Genius Plaza offers a curated STEAM curriculum in more than 30 languages, including tribal languages, to provide a quality learning experience from primary education to middle school and high school. Genius Plaza believes that innovation in education is the answer to empowering young people so they can become effective and productive members of society.

gy; and exploring the impact of popular technology usage on healthy speech, language and hearing.

These efforts are not anti-technology nor are they the first time ASHA has been a national leader in the area of safe usage of popular technology.

For the next decade, ASHA encouraged safe listening through its award-

winning “Listen to Your Buds” campaign. Using a variety of tactics, including its safe listening concert series, which took place in elementary and middle schools across the country, the Buds campaign promoted simple preventative messages, such as keep the volume down, take listening breaks and model good listening habits.

Email TIPS your suggestions or inquiries to tips@tips-usa.com or call 866.839.8477.

For more information, visit booth #1200.

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New Non-Profit Aims to Bring AR/VR to History, Literature and Art The Institute for Learning Perspectives (Perspectives XR) is a non-profit established by educators for educators who want to marry the coolness of augmented and virtual realities with the needs of today’s educators in history, literature and the arts. As immersive technologies become more commonplace in the classroom, educators will have questions and needs: “Where do I find quality, ageappropriate content and tools that meet the needs of my students, and how do I get them? What costs are involved? What devices will be required for the experience? How do I implement the experience so all students are engaged to learn and demonstrate mastery of the objectives?”

Perspectives XR is the one-stopshop that offers a free, searchable data-

base of apps, experiences, products, creation tools, professional learning opportunities and research in using immersive technology in the humanities’ classroom.

Perspectives XR is the preferred provider of QuantumERA’s Experience Real History line of award-winning experiences. Once users discover the offerings on the database, they may purchase products in physical or digital form directly from the website with processes, prices and services that schools use and need. If a curriculum exists, it is available with one click, such as the Battle of the Alamo’s customizable standards-aligned lessons, which utilize the 4Cs and integrate with language arts.

Technology itself is nothing without good instruction. The customer service

Waterproof Electronics: A Fairy Tale?

Once upon a time, it was commonly known that the only way your mobile phone could possibly survive being dropped in water was to immediately turn it off, remove the battery and then place the phone in a bowl of rice overnight to dry it out. Flash forward several years and “waterproof” phones are the new standard. How can a device with so many openings and fragile electrical components possibly be waterproof?

Smartphone manufacturers use a variety of sealing techniques to make sure all potential points of least resistance are watertight. Sometimes sealing is as straight forward as strategically using

glue in the connection ports or to secure the glass to the phone. Areas like the cable connectors may use rubber gaskets, while headphone jacks and charging ports use rubber rings to seal the enclosures. Smartphone buttons often have a silicon rubber boot to separate the button from the electrical contacts within the phone. On areas that need to keep water out but let air pass through, like microphones and speakers, manufacturers use a water-resistant breathable mesh fabric membrane to act as a pressure vent.

Sometimes ports, like the charging port, can be protected from water electronically by being made of corrosion resistant

View Your Day, Your Way La Crosse Technology has taken the alarm clock to a whole new level. Not only do you get the traditional alarm and snooze functions with the new WiFi Projection Alarm Clock, you’ll also be able to view and adjust numerous options as well. Some of the key features of this new projection alarm clock include the intuitive, soft touch buttons that allow quick and easy access to the features that matter most. Set custom snooze durations to best fit your routine, create one-touch nap timers and use the USB charging port to conveniently charge your mobile device.

The built-in weather sensor lets you project indoor temperature and humidity right onto your ceiling, so you can make any necessary adjustments to create an optimal sleeping environment. The projection also cycles between time and temperature data to keep you informed.

La Crosse Technology realizes life is busy, so let the WiFi Projection Alarm Clock go to work for you. Simply connect to the free La Crosse View™ app to get even more enhanced time and weather features. Once connected, you’ll be able to easily monitor home conditions,

set custom alerts, view weather history records and even share devices with family and friends – anytime, anywhere.

Connecting your alarm will also improve its in-home function as well. La Crosse Technology has partnered with AccuWeather™ to deliver accurate weather data directly to your alarm’s LCD display. Once connected to the La Crosse View app, your alarm will display the day’s forecasted highs and lows, percent chance of precipitation, dynamic forecast icons and also allows you to post personal messages on your display, thanks to the powerful data stream technology.

If none of the connected features sound interesting to you, no problem!

The enhanced features are totally optional and your alarm will function as a standalone unit without connecting to the app. It is important to note that some of the coolest features of this alarm come from its connected capability. While these connected features are great on their own, the true power of this clock lies in its ability to add any compatible La Crosse View add-on sensors. With or without the La Crosse View app, you’ll have the option to expand your system

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and consulting experience that Perspectives XR offers bridge that gap. It will customize professional learning sessions, develop curricula and help with funding ideas from grant writing to placing materials in schools through philanthropy.

Immersive experiences in the classroom can be the difference between a special needs student understanding a significant moment in history, or a non-reader engaging with and comprehending a character’s conflicts in a great story or play, or an art student who wants to create in 3D for others to enjoy. Perspectives XR, as its name indicates, believes all students deserve to experience the humanities from different, key perspectives as seen in QuantumERA’s Battle of Gettysburg experience, just released, which offers

viewpoints from both sides of the Civil War. In addition, immersive tech has shown to increase empathy and promote digital citizenship skills.

Visit Perspectives XR at booth #462 to view a demonstration or purchase QuantumERA’s Experience Real History products as well as discuss other offerings available to teachers and school districts. See our ad for special opportunities, visit www.perspectivesxr.org, or follow the company on your favorite social media platform. Join the company on its mission to bring immersive humanities content to educators, because barriers such as geography, time, learning needs, language and money should not limit students’ learning.

metals and programmed to automatically shut off when not in use.

These seals all need to go through rigorous quality testing. The most important type of testing for the waterproofing process is leak testing.

Waterproof smartphone manufacturers have dozens of leak testers, like ATEQ’s F28 lite, throughout their production lines to test the phone at various points during the assembly process. As each port is added to the phone, it can be leak tested with a differential pressure decay leak tester. This technology pressurizes the part with compressed air and measures the pressure drop, which would signify the air leak rate in that port.

Once the phone is completely assembled and the screen is secured, it can be leak tested with ATEQ’s sealed component ingress leak testing method. By putting the completed sealed phone into an airtight chamber, the chamber can be pressurized with compressed air and the leak tester can measure if any air sinks into the phone. If a leak amount that is below the manufacturer-specified leak rate sinks in, the phone can be considered airtight enough to be classified as being “waterproof.”

with numerous sensors for a complete home monitoring solution. From true backyard wind, rain, temperature and humidity data, to indoor water leak detection and more, you’ll be able to view this information right on your alarm’s screen. The add-on sensor information is also viewable on the La Crosse

For more information, visit booth #462 or go to www.perspectivesxr.org.

For more information, go to www .atequsa.com, call 734.838.3100 or email leaktestsales@atequsa.com.

View app, so you can set alerts and track trends on the go.

La Crosse Technology – bringing you the information that matters most to you anytime, anywhere.

For more information, go to www .lacrossetechnology.com.

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Cognitive, Plume and Qualcomm Partner with Stanley Black & Decker Cognitive Systems Corp., Plume and Qualcomm Technologies announced their partnership with Stanley Black & Decker in the creation of its groundbreaking Omni security product. Omni’s unique capabilities are enabled by Cognitive Systems’ Aura WiFi Motion technology, Plume’s cognitive service curation platform, OpenSync device software stack and Qualcomm’s advanced Qualcomm Mesh Networking Platform.

The result is a self-install security and motion detection system that alerts end users to motion in and around their homes and businesses without the privacy risks, set-up hassles or high costs that come with security cameras and sensors.

The collaboration between the four organizations is an unprecedented step towards creating a truly cognitive, smart home or business.

“We are very pleased to be working closely with these great companies and integrating our Aura WiFi Motion

software with their solutions. With more than 35 patents granted, we are very well positioned to disrupt the smart home industry by providing motion detection for security applications and elder care, and most notably, the vital context needed to make a truly smart home,” said Taj Manku, coFounder and Chief Executive Officer at Cognitive Systems. “Our WiFi Motion software stack allows Stanley Black & Decker’s Omni to provide motion detection coverage across an entire home or business, without cameras, so that users know their locations and loved ones are safe and secure.”

Cognitive Systems’ Aura WiFi Motion technology uses unique radio frequency (RF) sensing technology that can “see” and interpret WiFi signals. On top of this RF sensing, Cognitive Systems uses predictive analytics for reliable and accurate detection and localization of motion.

StarLab a Hit with Students, Parents & Teachers Think you can’t impress your students with technology anymore? Think again.

A portable planetarium from StarLab® is a unique, immersive and interactive learning tool that helps students of all ages discover just how exciting learning can be.

“This is awesome!” is the typical response from students about StarLab, as their eyes light up with increased understanding of the world around them. What more could an educator ask for?

Optimized Visuals StarLab is designed not only to educate but to engage today’s digitally-inclined students. Kids at all grade levels are captivated by StarLab’s high-resolution images and full-screen AV environment.

StarLab’s completely immersive 360-degree digital display is unlike anything students can access on a personal tablet or laptop, or even at school with a

traditional projection screen. The dome’s plush gray interior surface absorbs bright light, preventing image glare and washout, making it ideal for digital projections.

Enhanced Lessons This versatile learning tool will be used again and again across multiple grade levels, subjects and lessons. StarLab’s wealth of pre-planned curricula – provided in user-friendly software designed with educators in mind – elevates learning about astronomy, history, earth sciences, mythology and more to an entirely new level that makes students want to learn more.

Guaranteed Compliance Teachers and parents can have confidence in the science education their kids receive with StarLab. It comes with hands-on exercises

AcuRite Launches Atlas Weather Station Chaney Instrument Co. has announced the release of a new weather station, the AcuRite Atlas. Built with high-precision sensor technology, Atlas allows users to connect to hyperlocal weather conditions. Atlas has the ability to track UV exposure, light intensity and lightning, in addition to monitoring temperature, humidity, rainfall, barometric pressure, wind speed and direction. Along with these new features, Atlas offers an enhanced accuracy rating within one degree, improved durability and more frequent readings.

“AcuRite Atlas is the future of personal weather monitoring and our most advanced weather station yet,” said AcuRite Meteorologist Kari Strenfel.

“Atlas provides consumers with a weather system they can depend on to accurate-

ly predict a variety of weather conditions in their exact location, rather than relying on a weather report that’s generated at the nearest news station or airport.”

The launch of products like AcuRite Atlas is part of an increasing smart home technology trend providing home and business owners with highly accurate, actionable, personalized information.

Weather stations are sought-after by a wide variety of audiences from industry professionals like landscapers and farmers, to personal at-home users interested in outdoor activities and the latest technology gadgets.

Atlas allows users to quickly and easily access their data, archive it so they can look back and analyze historical information, and share it with fellow weather enthusiasts. Consumers are able

Cognitive’s solution integrates with OpenSync, an open source embedded software that allows partners like Cognitive to launch applications to a ready-made audience across millions of homes.

OpenSync intelligently processes data collected by Omni in the Plume Cloud and enables new services to be deployed, managed and supported.

“As the IoT landscape changes with more devices and use-cases, customers are increasingly looking for new service providers to enter the home and bring new solutions over-the-top,” said Tyson Marian, Chief Commercial Officer at Plume. “Omni is a great example of how we enable partners to provide new WiFi applications and monetize their services leveraging our existing service portfolio to deliver performance and insightful data at scale.”

Omni by Stanley Black & Decker will be available for purchase in the summer of 2019. “Our goal is to provide our customers with a security product that provides true peace of mind,” said Maid, Vice President, Spencer Breakthrough Innovation at Stanley and activities developed by science educators to enhance student learning.

Lesson plans, designed to meet all current state and national curriculum standards, are provided in a clear step-bystep format.

StarLab portable planetariums are engineered and constructed in Yulee, Florida using flame-retardant, kid-tested materials to ensure you receive the safest, highest-quality dome available.

Simplified Funding School administrators are often challenged to equip teachers with the tools necessary to fully engage today’s students. StarLab is an educational investment that pays for itself by opening doors to learning that can’t be experienced any other way.

Students and teachers alike will want to enjoy StarLab for years to come. With its wide range of uses – travel through the universe, explore the earth’s topography, study hurricanes with real-time data from the National Weather Service website – students will be engaged and inspired time and again, making StarLab a worth-

to choose how they view their information, either on a high-definition touchscreen display or through remote monitoring, or both.

The high-definition indoor touchscreen display offers a quick snapshot of the day’s high and low records and graphs for each measurement to track trends. The display features an SD card slot for long-term storage of weather data.

Atlas can provide remote monitoring from any device – mobile or desktop, including via the My AcuRite smartphone app. This feature lets users view data from anywhere, even at work or on vacation, allowing them to stay connected. Customizable alerts and notifications inform of changing weather conditions that might need attention. Atlas has the capability to integrate with Amazon Echo for convenient, personalized weather reports from Alexa.

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Black & Decker. “Cognitive Systems’ Aura WiFi Motion technology, combined with Adaptive WiFi™ delivered through Plume’s cognitive service curation platform, allows true interoperability between IoT devices to ensure motion is monitored and interpreted effectively, enabling customers to not only protect their homes and businesses, but also keep their privacy intact.”

“As evidenced by the rapid proliferation of connected devices in the home over the last few years, consumers are on the precipice of a new era in smart home technology,” said Gopi Sirineni, Vice President, Product Management, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. “We are excited to be working alongside Cognitive Systems, Plume and Stanley Black & Decker as they adopt emerging wireless technologies like RF sensing and mesh networking to deliver these innovative new applications to established industries like home and business security.”

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Uncomplicated Set-Up StarLab’s dome, available in 5-, 6- or 7meter sizes, fits conveniently into its rolling storage bag. In addition to its storage bag, StarLab comes equipped with curricula, a tablet, a high-resolution projector and a super-quiet blower. All components are lightweight yet durably constructed to withstand usage in K12 environments.

The dome easily inflates or deflates in under 30 minutes, making set-up and tear-down a snap. The easy-access door and built-in directional interior lighting make entering and exiting StarLab hassle-free.

Experienced Support Whatever your questions, StarLab’s highly knowledgeable staff can assist you. StarLab also comes with helpful step-by-step instructions and how-to videos.

For more information, visit www .starlab.com.

AcuRite Atlas retails starting at $249.99 and is available at www.acurite.com.

About AcuRite The AcuRite brand is owned by Chaney Instrument Co., a subsidiary of the Primex Family of Companies (PFOC) and a family-owned business headquartered in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.

Founded in 1943, Chaney Instrument Co. and its AcuRite brand are leaders in weather and home monitoring solutions.

In addition to weather stations, AcuRite offers a broad line of home and environmental monitoring devices. The company is known for developing products with intuitive designs that fit seamlessly into day-to-day life, keeping people connected to the things that matter most.

For more information, visit www .acurite.com.

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ELMO Prime Academic comes with dynamic screen sharing capability that can be used everywhere, from a 1:1 classroom to across the world. Devices can be bi-directionally linked so that teachers and students can share their screen and videos with each other in real UBTECH (Cont’d. from p. 1)

under-resourced, at-risk New York City public school students who have demonstrated academic talents but may not have the opportunity to develop them due to their economic circumstances.

2. We’re partnering with Pitsco.

Pitsco is well-known for its high-level engagements with some of the indus-

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took math lessons and quizzes, played games and more in real time using the Pilot podiums and CenterStage IFPs within the HoverCam booth. The demonstration was a testament to the effectiveness of the platform, which will be rolling out new software and hardware models to Val Verde USD high schools and middle schools throughout the remainder of 2019.

“It was a real treat to see the students from Val Verde show us how much they enjoy our solutions,” said Bayley Pierson, Associate Product Manager, HoverCam. “To witness their excitement first-hand reaffirms our commitment to Trinseo (Cont’d. from p. 1)

home energy offenders, so they can cut excess electricity usage without sacrificing comfort or convenience. Consumers can also monitor and control their devices remotely and can connect with Amazon Alexa and Google Home to enable voice activated control.

Trinseo has been supplying its EMERGE™ Advanced Resins for the Currant product during the prototyping and now in production. Trinseo materials can be seen throughout the Currant Smart Outlet – the outer housing, the substrate for the reflective front face and several inner components.

Adobe (Cont’d. from p. 4)

experiences is easier than you think. Find out how to integrate five types of creative projects into your curriculum – presentations, videos, photography, illustrations and web and app designs – and help your students build communication, critical thinking and creative skills in every class. Check out free lesson plans to find great ways to enhance classroom creativMackin (Cont’d. from p. 4)

throughout the industry. This penchant for acquiring quality educational material is a hallmark characteristic of Mackin that has naturally made its way to the new division.

For more information about MackinMaker or Mackin, visit www .mackinmaker.com or www.mackin.com.

time while also annotating and pulling up teaching materials from the cloud’s storage system. ELMO Prime Academic will also offer applications that can be used by its range of document cameras, such as its Chrome-based Image Mate + Cloud browser-based presentation software.

ELMO Prime Academic connects seamlessly to its planned series of inter-

try’s most esteemed organizations, including the Partnership for 21st Century Learning, CASEL, FIRST®, National Instruments and STEMfocused institutions. That’s why we were so excited to launch our partnership for distribution.

Be sure to stop in at Pitsco booth #2215 to see how UKITs and Yanshee fit into a larger STEM and robotics ecosystem. making one-of-kind digital learning tools that break the technology mold and remove barriers to learning that traditional approaches have been unable to conquer. Val Verde is a prime example of how schools can reshape classrooms and help students learn in a new and innovative way.”

In 2018, HoverCam enabled Val Verde USD to create an untethered environment with its Pilot 3 digital teaching stations. Developed based on feedback from actual educators, the Pilot 3 is the world’s first fully integrated wireless digital podium. Featuring a Windows PC, 13-megapixel document camera and 21inch touchscreen with wireless HD mirroring functionality in a mobile podium,

active flat panels, ELMO AXIS Board.

The AXIS Board will be offered in multiple screen sizes to fit a variety of classroom setups and is compatible with both Windows tablets and Apple iPads. The ELMO Easy Controller, its unique control panel, provides the widest selection of key functions on an interactive flat panel without compromising any space

3. We launched our Early Innovator program – and we want you to join.

At UBTECH Education, we believe that students shouldn’t just know how to use the tools of the future – they should be building the tools of the future. We created the Early Innovator program to make sure districts across the country have equitable access to the highest quality robotics, coding and STEM resources.

Early Innovators enjoy special it eliminates the outdated AV cart and combines the most important elements used in today’s classrooms. The Pilot 3 is built around the concept of unchaining teachers from stationary desks or lecterns, so they can move freely around the classroom while still commanding every part of the technology around them. The Pilot’s wireless transceiver instantly beams the podium’s screen and touch annotations to the IFPs, as well as any projector or TV in the room, in high definition with up to 4K image clarity.

And because everything is wireless, it eliminates the hazard of dangling cords and cables as students continue to work.

What’s more, the document camera can capture audio from the lesson using a

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for content onscreen. Pair AXIS Board with your favorite ELMO document camera and annotate live video in real time.

To see ELMO Prime Academic and the AXIS Board, plus the rest of ELMO’s new products for 2019, visit booth #3030 or go to www.elmousa.com.

perks: free robotics kits; free PD and ongoing support; deep discounts on additional products and services; opportunities to be featured on social media and webinars, at conferences, and in case studies; and bragging rights for being ahead of the curve.

Applying is easy. Visit us in booth #2636 for details!

Learn more at booth #2636.

built-in microphone, which enables teachers to execute flipped classroom models easily.

The school district also outfitted the new labs within its elementary schools with five HoverCam CenterStage IFPs and was a beta tester for HoverCam’s ClassFusion software. The software enables interactive whiteboarding, annotation and desktop marking for lesson recording and sharing so students can study anywhere, anytime and from any mobile device or browser.

More information on HoverCam’s full line of education solutions is available at www.thehovercam.com. Learn more at booth #2144.

Trinseo’s EMERGE Advanced Resins, which are specialty engineered performance plastics, have been designed to meet the exacting specifications for Currant including cosmetic, reliability and UL-driven safety requirements.

Among the reasons Currant selected Trinseo as a partner was because of the company’s color matching capability, including its ability to achieve an ultrabright white. The company has research and development centers globally, including color labs with expertise in complex colors. Color is such an important factor today for product differentiation, branding and end-user satisfaction and Trinseo is recognized globally for its

capability.

Trinseo supports various consumeroriented markets with specialty engineered plastics solutions. The company supports the growing consumer technologies sector with advanced material solutions including projects that involve biocompatible plastics for skin contact applications, chemical resistant materials, transparent light diffusion grades to allow for translucent LED displays, and plastics with recycled content to support sustainability goals.

As consumer technologies evolve, product developers and designers need to consider materials that they may not have considered in the past. Plastics

have emerged as an important solution to new-product challenges in that they enable properties such as portability, durability and appealing aesthetics while allowing additional characteristics such as biocompatibility, ignition and chemical resistance, and/or various degrees of transparency. Trinseo, the global manufacturer and compounder of performance plastics, has been helping customers find just the right solution.

Trinseo is proud to be a partner of Currant.

ity while meeting Common Core state standards at edex.adobe.com/commoncore.

You can get started quickly with new apps and features designed for beginning creators. Adobe Spark empowers teachers and students to easily create stunning graphics, web pages and short videos in minutes, and is free for education. Spark now includes project sharing, so students and teachers can collaborate online on

creative assignments using their laptop or desktop browsers.

Adobe’s newest app, Adobe Premiere Rush, lets you easily create great-looking videos with titles, transitions, effects and more. It works across macOS and Windows computers as well as iOS and Android phones, and offers an in-app tutorial that gets students up to speed in five minutes or less.

Both Spark and Premiere Rush help you and your students build skills and then easily move up to the Creative Cloud apps that are used throughout the workforce. Explore free STEAM lesson plans for Spark and Premiere Rush at www.scholastic.com/adobe.

About Mackin For nearly 35 years, Mackin has provided library and classroom materials for grades PK–12. Known the world over for exemplary service and a stringent attention to detail, Mackin has access to more than 18,000 publishers and a collection of nearly three million printed titles.

Additionally, Mackin features a robust selection of more than two million eBook

titles, audio books, databases, readalongs and video resources, all available through its free, state-of-the-art digital content management system, MackinVIA. This highly sought-after digital content management tool was recently awarded two distinctive awards; Best of Show at ISTE 2015, 2016 and 2017 and was named winner of a 2015, 2016 and 2017 Awards of Excellence by

For more information, go to www .trinseo.com.

For more information, stop by booth #1900 or go to www.adobe.com/ education/k12.html.

Tech & Learning. MackinVIA recently won a Platinum Award from Modern Library Awards and a designation as Product of the Year. Today, the free MackinVIA is found in thousands of schools and is accessible to more than nine million students around the world.

For more information, stop by booth #1222 or go to www.mackin.com.