News & Updates

eduporium STEM education news & updates


In the News & Updates section of our blog, you'll find updates on many of the latest STEM developments. These include happenings from the STEM and MakerEd worlds as well as important Eduporium announcements. This is where we'll share updates on product additions, announce the recipients of our monthly educational technology grant, pass on company news, highlight upcoming events, and discuss a whole lot more when it comes to cool topics in STEM education. Beyond our STEAM coverage, we also touch on various elements of 21st century learning. These include remote instruction, special education, social-emotional learning, and equity and diversity. If it's happening in the world of education, we're interested. And, we'll offer our analysis on what's affecting students, teachers, and administrators, attaching our genuine thoughts to keep you updated.
This is an area for us to keep a repository of recent happenings. Whether it's the release of a new type of technology, any additions to an EdTech product line, the arrival of new brands to our store, or some thoughts on the current state of education, there's a good chance you'll find it here. As time has gone on, we've participated in more STEAM and makerspace events. So, we've started to keep curated collections of those experiences. You can find them all throughout the News & Updates category. As Eduporium continues to expand and we get to participate in more STEM education projects with educators in some of the country's biggest school districts, we'll share those stories, too. We hope our collective accomplishments and partnerships with members of the K–12 community inspire others to innovate in new ways!

  1. Got A Girl Who's Loving STEM? What's New From Roominate

    Got A Girl Who's Loving STEM? What's New From Roominate

    Designed to make engineering fun for girls, Roominate empowers them to control exploration by making them the architect, the engineer, or even the electrician! It’s a neat way to build Future Ready kids while they strengthen design and engineering skills by building cafés, cars, and even brand-new houses! And, we’ve got some new STEAM kits just for that!

  2. Chromebooks are Key for the K-12 Classroom

    Chromebooks are Key for the K-12 Classroom

    Did you know we’ve partnered with some of the best computing brands, like HP, Lenovo, and Samsung to bring educators the best deals around for the current craze of Chromebooks? And, to top it all off, we also accept purchase orders and are willing to take as big of an order as you’d like! If you don’t know, now you know.

  3. Guest Post: Coding A High School Graduation Requirement

    Guest Post: Coding A High School Graduation Requirement

    As more and more emphasis is being placed on preparing workers primed to succeed in the 21st century workforce, it seems logical that more emphasis should be placed on helping students acquire programming skills. In over half of US states, however, computer science-related disciplines don’t count towards graduation requirements.

  4. Eduporium Partners With OCM BOCES Organization

    Eduporium Partners With OCM BOCES Organization

    From August 2-5 2016, Eduporium participated in the Onondaga-Cortland-Madison BOCES Making Learning Happen PBL NY event up in Syracuse. We were invited to the event to appear as an educational partner after we spent much of the last couple of months working to create, procure and customize EdTech bundles for PK-12 students in these districts.

  5. Eduporium's EdTech Bundles Headed to New York

    Eduporium's EdTech Bundles Headed to New York

    From Aug. 2-5 2016, we’re participating in the Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) Make Learning Happen event in Syracuse, NY. We were selected as the event’s preferred vendor after spending much of the last couple of months working to create, procure and customize EdTech bundles for PK-12 students in the districts they serve.

  6. 100 Girls of Code Group Explores Makey Makey

    100 Girls of Code Group Explores Makey Makey

    They couldn’t wait to get started and rushed to open the boxes we had received from Eduporium—an educator’s dream for one-stop shopping and the latest STEM classroom technology! We must say that some of the facilitators entered the Makey Makey activity with some trepidation, however, most were curious and excited to explore the possibilities!

  7. SpatialNote: How Technology Can Make Memorization Natural‏

    SpatialNote: How Technology Can Make Memorization Natural‏

    At Eduporium, we search all over the world to try to locate the most useful, innovative, and exciting new technologies to deliver to the K-12 academic community. If products can boost creativity and spark a new enjoyment of learning, we’ll want to tell you all about them! With that said, let us present SpatialNote, a brand new space-related way to remember crucial things.

  8. The New York City Mayor’s Plan To Better Lives Using EdTech

    The New York City Mayor’s Plan To Better Lives Using EdTech

    Mayor de Blasio stated that, in an effort to ensure that every child has the opportunity to develop skills needed not only to succeed in the workforce of the future, but even to enter and succeed within New York City’s rapidly growing technology sector, every school in the city will be required to offer computer science courses to students—regardless of their age.

  9. Modern Innovation in the Classroom: Blind Texting

    Modern Innovation in the Classroom: Blind Texting

    Could you type an essay blindfolded? Maybe, but even with all the hours you spend sitting on a swivel chair and punching keys, there’s almost no chance you could get through, say, a two-page paper scot free if you’re not looking at the text. What if you were asked to type the same two-page essay on your mobile phone? Could you do that?

  10. New From Eduporium: Bundles Of EdTech For Everyone

    New From Eduporium: Bundles Of EdTech For Everyone

    There may come a time when one single EdTech tool might not be enough for all the marvelous projects and unique activities you’re planning for your classroom. You know what? We thought of that too! Eduporium now offers intuitive bundle offerings that feature specifically selected STEAM solutions grouped together to help all your students excel with hands-on learning.

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