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Makeblock just released the Neuron Inventor Classroom Kit with curriculum from TechTerra Education! This is a milestone release for both companies.  Here's what Makeblock just said: Introducing Makeblock Neuron Inventor Classroom Kit A set of six Inventor Kit and teaching material from TechTerra, By popular demand, Makeblock has decided to release the Neuron Inventor Classroom Kit. Based on the Neuron Inventor Kit, the Neuron Inventor Classroom kit is designed to fit the classroom perfectly! What is it? The Makeblock Neuron Inventor Kit is a kit with programmable electronic building blocks that includes sound, light, and sensor blocks. The magnetic backing and the magnetic pogo pins make this educational tool easy to use in the classroom. Makeblock Neuron blocks are designed to be durable and allow students to experience hands on learning. Combined with intuitive graphical programming, Makeblock Neuron encourages all creators to turn their ideas into real, working gadgets. The Makeblock Neuron Inventor Classroom Kit includes:
What does it do? With a whole array of sensors, Neuron can be used online and offline. Coding experience is not necessary to play with the Neuron, but coding can be easily introduced by Neuron’s flow base programming. Programming can be done through the Neuron app and on desktop, with mBlock. The Neuron Inventor Classroom Kit TechTerra's Founder and CEO, Susan Wells, an EdTech Award Leadership Finalist, visited E.K.,Powe Elementary in mid-April. and spent some hands-on robot time showing kindergarteners and first-graders how to code. Read about her visit, as shared in the E.K. Powe Newsletter.
TechTerra Education, a leading STEM education company based out of Durham, NC, and TechTerra’s founder, Susan Wells, were just announced as finalists in the EdTech Awards 2018. In the EdTech Digest press release announcing the finalists:
“Top leaders, innovators, and trendsetters announced to millions interested in creating a better future for learning with the help of technology. The finalists for The EdTech Awards 2018 have been announced today to a global online audience of millions of educators, technologists, students, parents, and policymakers interested in creating a better future for education. Now in its 8th year, the US-based program is the largest and most competitive recognition program in all of education technology, recognizing the biggest names in edtech – and those who soon will be. “We celebrate who’s who and what’s next in edtech,” said Victor Rivero, who as Editor-in-Chief of EdTech Digest, oversees the awards program. The EdTech Awards recognizes people in and around education for outstanding contributions in transforming education through technology to enrich the lives of learners everywhere. Featuring edtech’s best and brightest, the annual program shines a spotlight on cool tools, inspiring leaders and innovative trendsetters across the K-12, Higher Education, and Skills and Workforce sectors. The EdTech Awards recognize people—and the products they produce and lives they shape— with three main honors: The EdTech Cool Tool Awards; The EdTech Leadership Awards, and The EdTech Trendsetter Awards.” https://edtechdigest.com/2018-finalists-winners/ TechTerra Education was honored with two finalist awards. Founder, Susan S. Wells, was named an EdTech Leadership Award Start-up Finalist. TechTerra Education was named an EdTech Trendsetter Award Finalist for its trendsetting service in connecting great educators with great digital learning tools. From STEM and Maker Ed camps, educator training and curriculum to educational products research and studies, TechTerra Education empowers educators and engages students. Techterra Education, www.techterraeducation.com, founded by Wells in 2016, offers national and international STEM and Makerspace solutions for students, teachers, schools, districts, and EdTech developers and innovators. The company’s mission is STEM Literacy for All.  You can find out more about Special Children at oego.co/special-children
Date: February 17, 2018 TechTerra Education is excited to announce that their CEO/Founder, Susan Wells, just published her first book - Foundations of Makerspaces - with Amazon. Wells designed her first Makerspace in 2009 and has been imagining, designing and creating Makerspaces and innovative learning spaces for over a decade. Her book takes her experience working with educators across the globe and uses that experience to create a guidebook on imagining, designing and deploying Makerspaces. Wells saw that educators around the world want something concrete in their hands to help them design and create a space that will work in their learning environments. Her book is a practical guide for districts and schools. Wells’ goal with her book, as with her company, from the pedagogy of Makerspaces to the vocabulary of STEM to the guiding steps for meeting the goals and standards for 21st Century learning, is STEM access for all.  Date: January 17, 2018 TechTerra Education, a leading STEM education company based out of Durham, NC, will be a guest of the UK’s Department for International Trade at BETT 2018. BETT is one of the largest technology exhibitions in the world focused on education. The theme this year is “Creating a better future by transforming Education” and over 37,000 attendees, 850 leading companies, 103 new edtech startups are expected to fill London’s international convention center, Excel London. TechTerra’s founder, Susan Wells, and her team will be flying to London as BETT gets underway January 24 -27, 2018. As a VIP guest, TechTerra Education will meet with key UK companies and enjoy a VIP tour along the Great British Trail. “We are thrilled to have been selected by DIT,” said Susan Wells. “We attended BETT in 2016 and 2017, but this will be our first time attending as an invited VIP. We look forward to meeting some of the most significant UK edtech companies and to networking at the UK Pavilion.” Techterra Education, www.techterraeducation.com, founded by Wells in 2016, offers national and international STEM and Makerspace solutions for students, teachers, schools, districts, and EdTech developers and innovators. The company’s mission is STEM Literacy for All.  TechTerra Education, a STEM education company founded in Durham, NC, along with the Boys and Girls Club of the Coastal Plains and East Carolina University, hosted a first annual STEMFest. The free event took place on August 5, 2017, at the Jack Minges Club in Greenville, North Carolina. Approximately 125 Boys and Girls Club (BGC) kids completed eight different hands-on STEM stations. Senator Don Davis (D) and Representative Jean Farmer-Butterfield (D) met with TechTerra Education’s CEO, Susan Wells, to take in the event. “It was a privilege to see the interest Senator Davis and Representative Farmer-Butterfield showed in STEM and the kids,” said Wells. “TechTerra Education was very happy to partner with BGC and ECU for this event.” BGC vice-president, Julie Cary, and Dean Grant Hayes of the ECU College of Education also attended. “TechTerra Education was an outstanding partner and provider of all the STEM activities in which our kids participated,” said BGC’s Cary. “Club kids were highly engaged at each station and for many it was their first time taking part in such a wide variety of STEM activities.” TechTerra provided the tools, teachers, and stations for a full day of STEM activity. BGC kids tried out coding and computational thinking, digital arts, robotics, and augmented and virtual reality. TechTerra teachers helped them work with 3d modeling, stop motion animation, and drones. The kids made take home Stations of STEM passports as keepsakes. “The day was a huge success,” said Wells, “and we look forward to working with the Boys and Girls Club to bring events like this to more kids here in North Carolina and across the nation.”  |
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