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Robotics teams in Dallas ISD will receive additional resources to foster interest and ability in STEM learning through the help of a $350,000 grant from Texas Instruments Foundation (TI Foundation). Oswaldo Alvarenga, executive director of Dallas ISD’s STEM department says the gift will create more exposure for students specifically interested in learning more about robotics. The donation will also help fund various competitive robotics events for Dallas ISD schools to compete in during the 2017-2018 academic year. “This grant will also ensure the expansion of robotic teams and opportunities for students to participate in co-curricular and extra-curricular STEM activities in…

Students at the five NAF Academies at Emmett J. Conrad High School are serious about securing paid internships this summer. In fact, these Conrad students from NAF Academies of Hospitality & Tourism, Health Sciences, Engineering, IT, and Finance are so serious that they participated in mock interviews Nov. 7 with 38 businesses and organizations across the DFW Metroplex. These businesses included well known insurance companies, financial institutions, hotels, healthcare facilities and retail establishments. https://thehub.dallasisd.org/2017/04/19/naf-graduation-ceremony-honored-more-than-400-seniors/ Participating companies included Liberty Mutual, Marriott International, Pegasus Bank, NexBank, IBC, Capital One, Children’s Health, AAFES (Army and Air Force Exchange Services),  and Men’s Warehouse. There were also…

For 12 years, the Dallas Arboretum has partnered with Dallas ISD in an after-school grant funded program, supported by United Way and other generous donors, that provides after school enrichment in the areas of life and earth science. S.S. Conner, Edwin Kiest, Ignacio Zaragoza and Highland Meadows elementary schools currently participate in the program.  STEM First, for third-graders, and STEM in Action, for fifth-graders, provide participating schools with two nine-week units integrating real-world issues as they relate to the science content. In the fifth-grade unit, students take an active role in investigations that are centered on a hydroponic tower. They…

Spend the next 53 seconds catching up on many of the great things that happened across the district this week! Watch the above video, or read below, to learn more. STEM skills  The Dallas Women’s Foundation annual luncheon inspired Irma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School students to make their mark in a STEM field (read this). A new tech lab at John Ireland Elementary School will help students become the next generation of coders, engineers and designers (read this). Excellent extracurriculars The Tech Olympics saw Technical Theatre program students competing and collaborating together at Richland College (watch this). Five high school marching bands received first…