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ClassLink a Game-Changer at NISD

Northwest Independent School District in North Texas is reaping all the benefits you would expect from a single sign-on service – faster logins and easier access to digital resources. But because NISD chose ClassLink as its district-wide SSO provider, it has also tamed a wild rostering process and gained detailed usage analytics that helps it make informed purchasing and professional development decisions.

Jason Sanders, Director of Instructional Technology for NISD, explains the district, which is a 1:1 Chromebook environment, already had an SSO provider that worked fine. But ClassLink met so many more of their needs.

“When we switched to ClassLink, it was different. Instead of being what worked, it was what educated,” explains Sanders.

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UBTECH Offers STEM+C & Curriculum to Support Hands-On Robotics Instruction

By Jamie Sachs, Senior Director of Education

At UBTECH Education, we are constantly looking at how we can improve our services to support educators in Integrated STEM disciplines. We’re excited to talk about our UKIT programs, NGSS-designed curriculum, and new advanced coding and circuitry lessons.

Rapid Rostering “If we go a couple of years back, rostering very much looked like the wild west,” explains Sanders. Schools were choosing different tools and sharing different data with

Supplemental Curriculum Flexibly Integrates into Existing STEM and CTE Programs Our UKITs bring robotics and computer science activities to students during their normal school day. Educators can easily integrate our NGSS-aligned supplemental lessons into their existing core educational programs, using hands-on robotics as the vehicle for bringing STEM concepts to life. Our curriculum reflects the interconnected nature of STEM disciplines as they are practiced in the real world. You’ll find lessons covering

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Cutting-Edge Document Camera from HoverCam

HoverCam, an innovative technology leader in the education market, is now shipping the award-winning Ultra 10, the latest addition to its line-up of best-in-class document cameras. Ultra 10 features three methods of wireless connectivity; smooth, lag-free 4K @60FPS video output; a fully integrated, powerful Android computer; a 7.1-inch multitouch screen that mirrors what students see; and a 16 megapixel camera sensor that achieves an unprecedented document camera resolution. Users can connect a display, IFP, or projector via wired HDMI or wirelessly through the included 4K transmitter to easily record lessons, capture vibrant images and show live video in stunning 4K clarity.

Stronger Wireless Classrooms Wireless isn’t a buzzword, it’s the new norm for classrooms. However, it brings new

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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, age-appropriate 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-stop-shop that offers a free, searchable database 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 Continued on Page 17

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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. Its award-winning document cameras have long paved the way within the visual presenter space, reinventing the standard time and time again.

In recent years, it 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 100year 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, its 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. 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 bidirectionally linked so that teachers and students can share their screen and videos with each other in real 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 the Chromebased Image Mate + Cloud browserbased presentation software.

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

Teacher Mobility, Student Engagement, Flex Spaces, Enhanced by Pilot X HoverCam, based in San Diego, California, is shipping Pilot X, a mobile, wireless teaching station allowing instructors to teach anywhere in their room without dangling cables or a power cord.

It features a 13-inch Windows touch tablet so teachers can work from the mobile podium or pick up the tablet and move it to any student’s desk or work group, casting video images with no lag, no delay to the screen.

“Pilot X gets teachers out into the classroom where students are, away from the front of the room,” said Craig Justice, HoverCam Vice President of Sales. “It’s an important part of the complete classroom, allowing teachers to be mobile.”

Pilot X includes a 4K document camera, keyboard, rechargeable battery, wireless transmitter and a wireless receiver that plugs into the HDMI port of

any display. The podium’s transmitter beams content to any interactive flat panel, projector or TV in resolutions up to 4K, without using the district’s WiFi. Pilot X is ideal for districts implementing flex spaces, STEAM labs, new classrooms or technology refreshes. The Windows tablet may be imaged and runs all the software a district uses. The document camera may be folded into the tablet, so teachers can take the tablet home to prepare lessons.

The base model includes an Intel M3 mobile processor, with options for i5 or i7 processors and additional SSD memory, so the tablet may be configured to a district’s standards.

Educators can walk around the room to interact with students and teach without being tied to their desk or tied to the front of the room turning their backs on

SecuGen’s Low-Cost, Compact Bluetooth Fingerprint Reader

By Jeff Brown, Vice President of Sales, SecuGen Corporation

What is Unity 20 Bluetooth?

The Unity 20 Bluetooth is the world’s first elegantly designed, low cost, fully programmable Bluetooth fingerprint reader. It is sleek and small enough to be carried in your pocket as a mobile fingerprint reader or placed at a workstation as an ergonomic desktop reader.

It’s a versatile scanner that can securely transfer fingerprint data wirelessly to mobile devices and computers alike. But it can also process and store encrypted fingerprints within the device without having fingerprint data ever leaving the device. This can help ensure that sensitive biometric data stays secure within the users’ possession at all times, which can be important for sensitive transactions.

What’s so appealing about it?

Most Bluetooth products on the market are about as attractive as a deck of cards.

The Unity 20 Bluetooth reader, on the other hand, is a stunning device with a simple but intuitive single button interface and three small LEDs. Our team has been able to achieve this while keeping the price of the product very low and suitable even for large-scale deployments.

With support for Android and iOS, the Unity 20 Bluetooth can be paired with most smartphones or tablets as an efficient solution for roaming enrollment and authentication of groups of people without having to deal with bulky machines. No longer requiring cables that can lead to clunky tethering, the Unity 20 Bluetooth was designed so that an administrator can hold it in one hand while presenting it to a user to place their finger comfortably to scan.

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active flat panels, ELMO STEM-Board.

The STEM-Board will be offered in multiple of 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 for content onscreen. Pair STEMBoard with your favorite ELMO document camera and annotate live video in real time.

To see ELMO Prime Academic and the STEM-Board in action, plus the rest of ELMO’s new products for 2020, visit booth #1943.

For more information, go to www.elmousa.com or stop by booth #1943.

students to work on a touch panel.

With Pilot X, instructors can always teach facing the class.

HoverCam has developed wireless, interactive, USB touch technology so that the Pilot X is compatible with most leading touch panels.

This means instruction can be done with the touch panel or with the Pilot X tablet.

For example, students could be working at the large interactive panel while the instructor controls everything from the Pilot X tablet.

The tablet’s built-in microphone captures audio from lessons, and with HoverCam’s ClassFusion software, it enables interactive whiteboarding, annotation and desktop marking and lesson recording. With ClassFusion, students don’t have to worry about missing out on

What’s under the hood?

The Unity 20 Bluetooth can be used right out of the box using the preinstalled Fingerprint Management System software. Alternatively, it can be completely custom programmed to suit the needs of the targeted user base. Within the slim, sleek white case, the reader has a 1GHz CPU and complete Linux development environment, including SecuGen’s fingerprint capture and NIST MINEX-compliant template extraction and matching algorithms, and the OpenSSL cryptography library.

What does this say about us?

This product is the embodiment of our philosophy of listening to the voices of our partners and designing world class products to meet their needs. The Unity 20 Bluetooth is a breakthrough product that maintains our dedication to quality and affordability.

As this is precisely what our partners have been asking for, we are excited to

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critical information in class. All notes, annotations, video and audio of every lesson are captured perfectly in real-time for student to access anywhere, anytime and from any device or browser – making it the ideal solution for remote learning and study sessions.

Pilot X is in stock and available for purchase.

For more information, go to www.hovercam .com/pilotx, email sales@hovercam.com or stop by booth #1133. support and help them succeed with new products that are attractive, powerful and economical.

About SecuGen SecuGen is a leading provider of optical fingerprint recognition technology for physical and information security. For over 20 years, SecuGen has been a driving force committed to developing innovative, high quality, rugged and price-performing products including FBI-certified fingerprint readers, sensors, biometric software and developer kits.

SecuGen products are used by financial, medical, government, educational and corporate institutions and are sold through an extensive network of reseller partners including original equipment manufacturers, independent software vendors and system integrators in North America, Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Europe and Asia.

For more information, go to www.secugen .com or email sales@secugen.com.

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BrightThinker: Educating Modern Learners BrightThinker is a nonprofit organization that is based out of Lewisville, Texas, that focuses on the development and implementation of both online and paperbased curriculum to support even the most challenging students in grades 3– 12. BrightThinker accelerates students’ learning with dynamic media-rich, mastery-based curriculum, that is a complete set of courses in core and elective courses that adhere to both state and national standards.

Through the implementation of the BrightThinker curriculum, schools have been able to measure comparable success from those students who are in advanced placement courses as they have seen with students who are in credit recovery or use the curriculum in supplemental applications. Today, 24 out of the top 50 alterna-

tive accountability charter schools in the state of Texas, including independent school districts, have successfully implemented the BrightThinker’s core curriculum.

This success has made BrightThinker a proven leader in promoting student success in academics.

In 2015, the curriculum was developed to meet the rapidly changing needs of students and schools. The systems and pedagogy of BrightThinker’s highly successful precision mastery-based model informs teachers of student progress and creates a perfect environment for personalized learning. Both the paper and digital curriculum were created to support students of all academic levels and learning abilities. The curriculum is based on four teaching methods that include connectional, elevational, directional and

VideoAmp Partners with TiVo To further advance its practice of commingling TV viewership data from Smart TVs (ACR) with the same from cable and satellite set-top boxes, VideoAmp is partnering with TiVo. The expanded data set extends VideoAmp’s TV Viewership data pool to cover 25 million devices in 19 million U.S. households and gives marketers and media owners sophisticated cross-screen media planning, measurement and optimization capabilities, bolstered by device-level viewership data and audience insights from participating multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs), TV and DVR manufacturers.

VideoAmp uses commingled TV viewership data to map households to privacy-protected digital identity and

advertising exposure data to model a nationwide, cross-screen audience that brings transparency, liquidity and accountability to the media and marketing ecosystem. For marketers, this makes it easy to effectively target, engage and measure audiences. For media owners, this makes it easy to analyze and assess audiences, to optimize yield across screens holistically.

“This new relationship with TiVo will allow our data to cover a huge number of households and devices, giving marketers and media owners the opportunity to leverage this crucial insight as they come under increased pressure to show value for marketing dollars,” says Randy Laughlin, Senior Vice President of Business Development at VideoAmp.

Smart Parents Stay Ahead of the Weather

By Kari Strenfel, AcuRite Meteorologist

As a meteorologist and an active mom with two young kids, I need to stay informed of the outdoor weather conditions to maintain our active lifestyle.

Whether we are biking to the park, headed out on a family hike, or keeping it simple by playing in the backyard, I need to stay updated on the outdoor conditions year-round. Living in the San Francisco Bay Area, we can get outside mostly every weekend. In the summer, I need to

keep an eye on those high temperatures: a family hike is fun at 8 a.m. when it’s still 60 degrees Fahrenheit outside, but not so fun when it reaches 80 degrees Fahrenheit by 10 a.m. Even in the winter when it rains, we like to know how much rain we got overnight to decide if it’s a good day for puddle jumping!

I rely on the AcuRite Atlas™ weather station that I mounted on my roof to stay updated on the changing weather conditions. With the weather station reporting to the AcuRite Access™, which

ASHA’s Concern About Tech Use Shared by World Health Organization The American Speech-Language Association (ASHA) has long raised concern about the threat to hearing from listening to personal audio devices too loudly, too often and for too long.

That concern was validated anew last February when the World Health Organization (WHO), in conjunction with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), introduced first ever global safe listening recommendations for manufacturers of personal audio devices.

Collectively, the recommendations are referred to as the WHO-ITU Global Standard for Safe Listening Devices and Systems.

According to WHO, nearly 50 percent of people age 12–35 years old – or 1.1 billion young people – are at risk of hearing loss from prolonged and excessive exposure to loud sounds, including music heard through personal audio devices.

Since 2006, ASHA has been a leader

positional. With BrightThinker’s curriculum and data, teachers will have the tools necessary to meet the needs of each student based on where they are in the learning process.

BrightThinker is at the forefront of the new educational model of “Blended Education.”

As students’ academic needs have changed over time, BrightThinker has provided a solution to accommodate the changes, and support teaching staff with results-driven content and data. In addition to removing the need for direct teacher to student instruction, the online classroom model better prepares students for academic success at the advanced level in the continuously growing online college environment. Teachers – both novice and experienced – are able to feel confident jumping right into using the systematic online platform that provides

teacher autonomy and promotes ease of use.

In order to promote student success, BrightThinker provides students a rigorous academic experience, with the intent of preparing them for the successes that are measured by standardized assessments and collegiate preparedness. The development team has developed educational products that adhere to state and national standards in both architecture and curriculum content. Students will experience a variety of instructional content that is academically challenging yet visually engaging to stimulate the educational mind and encourage academic discovery.

For more information, go to www.bright thinker.com or stop by booth #2352.

“We are excited to be working with VideoAmp to pioneer the future of television and cross-screen video advertising,” said Walt Horstman, SVP/GM Data and Advertising, TiVo. “We believe our nationally-representative, highly-accurate viewership data enables unified planning, activation and measurement for all. Together, we hope to dramatically improve the advertising experience across screens.”

“CIMM has long supported integration of Set-top Box data with Smart TV data to enable a more holistic view of the television audience universe and mitigate the limitations inherent in both data sets by combining the two,” says Jane Clarke, Chief Executive Officer and MD of The Coalition For Innovative Media

Measurement (CIMM).

“We welcome the efforts by VideoAmp to advance such integration and help bring media buyers and sellers a step closer to the larger and more complete data samples needed for true cross-platform measurement.”

VideoAmp’s sophisticated data modelling empowers ecosystem parties to bridge the silos between TV, OTT and digital video. The resulting unified VideoAmp household currency makes it easier to value, buy and sell cross-screen audiences.

is plugged into the router, all the weather data is reported to My AcuRite.

This allows me to check the weather conditions from anywhere from the My AcuRite app on my smartphone. I also have enabled alerts in My AcuRite to notify me of any potentially dangerous conditions, such as outdoor temperature above 95 degrees or lightning detected within 25 miles.

For those of us with smart speakers, My AcuRite is compatible with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, making it

even easier to access our weather conditions. I often find myself asking – “Hey Alexa, ask my AcuRite for the outdoor temperature.”

The AcuRite Atlas and My AcuRite will help you keep your family active and safe all-year-round. Create your custom weather station and home monitoring system at www.acurite.com/personal-weatherstations.html.

warning the public about the risk, so much so that WHO invited ASHA to join a diverse group of outside experts to consult with them on its Make Listening Safe campaign, the effort that produced the new global safe listening recommendations.

The recommendations ask manufacturers to equip devices like smartphones and other personal audio devices with information that explains safe listening and includes usage warnings, tracking information and options for limiting volume levels.

The recommendations would also have safe listening information appear in advertising and on external product packaging and manufacturers’ websites.

These WHO recommendations represent a global attempt to mitigate the risk of unsafe popular tech use. You can be part of it by joining ASHA’s Healthy Communication & Popular Technology Initiative at www .communicationandtech.org.

For more information, go to www.videoamp.com, call 424.272.7774 or email hello@videoamp.com for general inquiries or videoamp@propeller group.com for media and press inquiries.

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Hanwha Techwin Introduces New Eco-Friendly Baby Monitor Hanwha Techwin (formerly Samsung Techwin) debuted the Wisenet BabyView Eco PT wireless video baby monitor – the latest in its line of consumer video monitoring and home surveillance products.

The BabyView Eco PT includes an energy efficient mode for power conservation and has a camera that allows users to pan up to 295 degrees and tilt up to 110 degrees for a full range of visibility in any room of the home where children are present.

“Hanwha Techwin is committed to providing home security products that effortlessly enable people to keep an eye on their homes and children,” said Richard Simone, Hanwha Techwin America Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “The BabyView Eco PT is the newest addition to our line of video baby

monitors, helping people keep their babies even safer with low-power consumption and a full range of vision control.”

Parents can now keep a closer eye on their children thanks to the remote-control pan and tilt function of the new BabyView Eco PT camera. Especially useful for babies who have begun to crawl or inquisitive toddlers who love to explore, the BabyView Eco PT allows parents to maneuver the camera vertically and horizontally to get a better view of the surrounding area.

The BabyView Eco PT lets parents create a more energy efficient and environmentally friendly home for their children with its energy-saving Eco mode.

While the device does come with VOX mode as well, the Eco mode gives users

Reduce Teacher Sick Days & Increase Test Scores at the Same Time Today’s classrooms are built for many things, but proper acoustics is not among them. While flat walls and linoleum floors are ideal for motivational posters and low construction costs, they are horrific for sound projection. Additionally, background noise in the classroom can feature a relentless onslaught of air conditioners, whirring computers, squeaking desks and sounds from the outdoors.

This can have great consequences for student success. The Journal of Urban Health reported that 8- and 9-year-old students who experience higher ambient noise levels in the classroom perform significantly worse on standardized tests, after controlling for socioeconomic background. Other studies have shown similar results.

These superfluous acoustics and

background noises also impact teachers as they battle to talk above the noise.

Adults, who rely on context to intuit missed words, require a signal-to-noise ratio of around over 6 decibels, meaning a speaker’s voice has to be about 50 percent louder than ambient noise for comprehension. In contrast, children, who lack this ability to fill in the blank, need the sound to be 300 percent louder. Additionally, because sound disperses over distance, some studies suggest a teacher needs to speak at a level of 83 decibels to provide the proper signal-to-noise ratio for students in the back row. That’s about as loud as a garbage disposal.

As you can imagine, this level of volume is unhealthy. According to one study in the Journal of Voice, teachers are 32 times more likely to be plagued with

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 and activities developed by science educators to enhance student learning.

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another way to further conserve power. When in Eco mode, the monitor only wakes up when the camera detects sound, extending the monitor’s battery life.

Each user can set their own sound sensitivity level. In addition, the monitor and camera connect by only using radio frequency signals every two seconds, ensuring lower radiation in the baby’s room.

The color 4.3” LCD touchscreen monitor display provides clear, real-time video with at least six hours of battery life. The BabyView Eco PT also has a long-range radio frequency of 900 feet within line of sight, giving parents the freedom to do what they need to around the house without losing contact with their baby. It supports up to four cameras, and features multiple viewing modes: single, sequence and multi-camera view.

The BabyView Eco PT is equipped

with a room temperature sensor, allowing parents to keep an eye on the temperature of the baby’s room through the monitor.

In addition, the camera has a built-in microphone and high-quality speaker for two-way talk.

The device comes pre-programmed with four lullabies and three types of white noise to soothe the baby and help them fall asleep. Additionally, it’s equipped with night vision capabilities up to 16 feet to produce clear images in low-light or dark conditions, using builtin non-visible infrared LED lights.

Pricing and availability of the new BabyView Eco PT will be announced soon.

voice problems than any other voice-dependent occupation.

Possible fixes include the installation of sound-dampening materials, such as carpets, or attempts to lower ambient noise, such as requests that grounds maintenance happen during weekends. But a more effective (and less expensive) solution is sound-enhancement which spreads a teacher’s voice evenly, meaning there is no difference in volume between the front and back of the room. Additionally, the sound is distributed mechanically so the instructor can speak at a conversational level. Not only is this more pleasant for students to hear, it also is much healthier for the teacher’s voice.

The result? 2003 study shows the Stanford Achievement Test scores of students in amplified classrooms were 10 to 15 percent higher than students in unamplified classrooms. Studies have also linked sound amplification with improved student behavior, motivation

and general engagement in classroom activities.

Sound enhancement is better for teachers too: In 1996, the Dubuque Community School District reported that teachers in classrooms with sound enhancement averaged just 19 sick days per year due to voice, jaw or throat problems, compared to 52 sick days per year in classrooms without sound enhancement. Imagine – if a school is paying less for substitute teachers, sound enhancement refunds itself.

So yes, it is possible for test scores to go up and teacher sick days to go down. It’s one of the few examples where you can have your cake and eat it too.

Visit www.buyqball.com to learn why Leslie Fisher, over 8,000 classrooms and 150,000 students trust the Qball for sound enhancement in the classroom.

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

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

making StarLab a worthwhile scholastic investment.

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 realtime data from the National Weather Service website – students will be engaged and inspired time and again,

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Uncomplicated Set-Up StarLab’s dome, available in 5-, 6- or 7-meter sizes, fits conveniently into its rolling storage bag. In addition to its storage bag, StarLab comes equipped with curricula, a tablet, a highresolution 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-bystep instructions and how-to videos.

For more information, www.starlab.com.

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Enventys Partners Brings Ideas to Life Great ideas often start as small solutions to everyday problems. Inventors look at the world around them and create solutions that make their lives easier in some way. But bringing those ideas to the public is an enormous task that requires expertise and skill to do effectively.

Enter Enventys Partners, the industry’s only full-service, turnkey product launch agency. It combines start-to-finish, all-encompassing product development services with digital marketing and crowdfunding expertise and has raised more than $300 million. It leverages global partnerships to design, prototype, manufacture, fulfill, crowdfund and market new products and businesses.

This year, Enventys Partners is excited to celebrate the success of past and present clients including Mobile Pixels, kegg, Vitesy, Kryo, PlayShifu, Riego and Luminook.

ClassLink (Cont’d. from p. 1)

vendors – the district lacked any centralized control. And with standards varying for resources, the data services team had to often build specific templates for each new app.

“But as we go forward every year, more and more resources are subscribing to the OneRoster standard that ClassLink uses, and that enables us to really quickly onboard them,” enthuses Sanders. He says if a new vendor uses the OneRoster standard, and has worked with ClassLink UBTECH (Cont’d. from p. 1)

topics like “force and motion,” “natural disasters” and “clean energy.”

Curriculum Addresses Engineering Gaps Found in Traditional Science Courses We recognized that there was a dire need for equity in STEM and computer programming education. The UKIT curriculum addresses a critical gap in HoverCam (Cont’d. from p. 1)

challenges that plague network administrators and disrupt the classroom.

HoverCam leveraged years of engineering expertise to create wireless technology within the Ultra 10 that overcomes these hurdles. Delivering uncompromised video quality, the camera’s HoverCast system is able to send uncompressed 4K signals to any display in a point-to-point closed network without requiring a WiFi connection. This is the first wireless document camera teachers can move anywhere in the room and cast with no lag or delay. Ultra 10 also supPerspectives XR (Cont’d. from p. 1)

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 lan-

Luminook Luminook is a small-space LED lighting solution that uses sensor fusion to determine the position of a door and control the light’s brightness and temperature when in use.

Creator Christopher Stubbs brought lofty ideas and a prototype constructed with plastic building blocks to Enventys Partners. The product development team transformed Luminook from sketch to full smart lighting ecosystem, and the crowdfunding team readied the brand for launch.

Riego Riego, a decorative indoor irrigation system was born out of the desire to maintain a variety of houseplants with a nofuss self-watering system.

Creators Manuel and Maria Caceras created a rudimentary prototype using found materials, then came to Enventys

before, it can take as little as two to three days to get that tool up and running.

Analytics to Drive Students’ Success With ClassLink, Sanders and his colleagues can now easily view analytics around student, educator and parent logins to digital tools from the beginning of the year, the beginning of the week or even for a specific day. They can further break those analytics down by location.

For example, Sanders says since the beginning of this school year that Lexia Core5 and Imagine Math have been the

teaching engineering design principles.

Through our robotics kits, building and engineering practices are made tangible and concrete. Students learn the elements of coding and build a foundation for digital literacy and computational thinking skills.

Curriculum Grows with Students from Elementary School through College Starting with our UKIT Beginner, stu-

ports MiraCast, providing users with a widely-supported wireless casting method. Furthermore, Ultra 10 comes equipped with ScreenCast, a web-based casting method for users to see a live stream of the camera’s image through most web browsers.

Ample Processing Power, Seamless Control Today’s students expect fast processing and intuitiveness of their mobile devices and computers. Ultra 10 achieves this with a lightning-fast built-in CPU and Android operating system. Users can load their favorite apps onto the unit and

guage arts.

Technology itself is nothing without good instruction. The customer service 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

Partners to turn their conceptual prototype into a product. Enventys Partners gave their concept IQ points with a smart watering algorithm and improved the device aesthetics. It also developed an accompanying app, making the device smarter, and its marketers readied the brand for launch.

Mobile Pixels, Inc. Mobile Pixels teamed up with Enventys Partners twice in two years to crowdfund its portable laptop monitors, DUEX and TRIO, raising more than $2 million. kegg The kegg team worked with Enventys Partners to crowdfund its two-in-one fertility tracking monitor, which raised over $51,000 on Indiegogo in 2019.

Vitesy Vitesy came to Enventys Partners twice in three years for help marketing and launching two natural air purifiers.

Together, the teams raised more than $1

top two applications used throughout the district. That’s good news since those are the targeted reading and math tools for grades K through five in the district.

That type of data has a significant impact in the district, says Sanders. Not only because it shows him that students are using and enjoying those tools, but it also demonstrates that the district’s financial investment in those tools is worthwhile.

Sanders says analytics also help the district see low usage numbers for critical applications, which they can then use to dents develop a curiosity for STEM+C and robotics topics, diving into activities that build a foundation for developing investigative, critical thinking and collaboration skills. As students progress through our UKIT Intermediate and UKIT Advanced, they are introduced to new challenges, tools and materials.

We’re excited to announce our newly designed UKIT Advanced curriculum, which focuses on a more free-thinking

do intelligent, fast processing of any video right from the camera. The 7-inch multi-touch screen enables annotation and features familiar finger gestures such as pan, tilt, and rotate, which complement the latest optical character recognition, augmented reality, and 3D apps.

4K UHD Clarity The large 16 megapixel camera sensor achieves the industry’s highest resolution of any document camera on the market.

With greater digital zoom without resolution loss or pixilation, students can see small details in perfect clarity. Ultra 10 is

special needs student understanding a significant moment in history, or a nonreader 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

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million over the campaigns.

PlayShifu PlayShifu relied on Enventys Partners to raise more than $75,000 on Kickstarter, then transitioned to the Enventys Partners ecommerce marketing team. With Enventys Partners’ help, PlayShifu saw a 211 percent return on advertising spend, building on the crowdfunding campaign’s success.

Kryo Inc. Enventys Partners worked with Chili Technology, a brand of Kryo Inc., to successfully crowdfund its temperature-regulation mattress topper system in 2016.

Post-campaign, Enventys Partners re-booted the Chili Technology website, leading to a 150 percent revenue increase.

Whether an idea is in its infancy, or a brand is ready to test the waters and see what the demand is for its latest creation, Enventys Partners is ready to help inventors navigate the path to product launch success.

address the issue. “When we can intervene and change what’s happening at school, that’s when we really get a change in achievement and in learning for those kids.”

With more data, Sanders says his district knows what they need to do next to help kids be more successful. For NISD, he says, “Choosing ClassLink has been a game-changer.”

For more information, go to www.classlink.com, call 888.963.7550 or stop by booth #826.

approach to robotics and STEM topics, as well and how to work with circuits.

This new program will help students evolve and expand their skills in preparation for college and the careers of the future.

To register for free access to the curriculum, go to www.ubtecheducation.com/ curriculum-registration or visit Pitsco in booth #2227 to learn more.

also the first document camera to output 4K resolution at 60FPS through HDMI. Small size fonts will appear larger and easier to see in the back of the classroom.

In science applications, students will see chemical reactions in vivid detail. When connected with an HDMI cable, the Ultra 10 is capable of outputting 60 frames per a second at 4K resolution, ensuring video is smooth and lag free.

More information on HoverCam and its full line of products is available at www.thehovercam.com. For a hands-on demo of HoverCam’s new Ultra 10 wireless document camera, visit booth #1133.

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

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.

For more information, go to www .perspectivesxr.org.