EiE's monthly newsletter for August 2017 features new Spanish resources for EA and EE, a tour of NASA's JPL, and an upcoming workshop!
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EiE News—August 2017
Museum of Science, Boston and Oracle Team Up Again to Bring Hands-on Engineering Education to Central Florida Schools

The Museum of Science, Boston and Oracle are collaborating with the Orlando Science Center (OSC) to bring an award-winning STEM curriculum, Engineering is Elementary® (EiE®), to elementary schools in the Orlando area. A $25,000 grant from Oracle will support 20 Florida elementary teachers in learning to implement the Engineering is Elementary® (EiE®) curriculum through a professional development workshop hosted by OSC; the scholarship recipients will also receive a complete set of EiE curriculum materials to use in their classrooms.
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New Spanish Resources for our Afterschool Curricula
The Engineering is Elementary team is committed to making our engineering curricula accessible to all students, including English Learners—the fastest growing group of public school students in the United States. You can now download Spanish translations of the student notebooks for all 20 Engineering Adventures and Engineering Everywhere units!
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Thinking About Attending a Teacher Educator Institute?

EiE's Teacher Educator Institutes (TEIs) are interactive, train-the-trainer workshops that prepare educators to run their own workshops with best practices. Have you been thinking about joining us in Boston? We'd love to see you at our upcoming workshop on October 18-20, 2017 at the Museum of Science, Boston. Read on to learn more about this exciting opportunity!
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Behind the Scenes at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab
This past March, a small EiE crew—a film producer, a sound engineer, and a handful of EiE curriculum developers—traveled across the country to explore NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), interview NASA engineers, and create a video introducing middle-school-aged youth to the field of remote sensing for our upcoming Engineering Everywhere unit Worlds Apart: Engineering Remote Sensing Devices. Go behind the scenes with curriculum developer Kate Sokol on the blog!
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How EiE Helps Teachers Model Productive Collaboration
EiE values collaboration and views collaboration as an essential part of engineering (and of life), so we developed curricula that models for teachers easy and effective ways to encourage productive collaboration. Take a deep dive into EiE classroom videos to see young engineers collaborating and engaging in authentic discourse.
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