from Houston Chronicle | read it > One of our most vivid recollections of Hurricane Harvey was not only how Houstonians banded together for immediate survival and a lengthy recovery, but how offers of assistance quickly came in from around the world. One striking example is the $30 million given by the State of Qatar…
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from Technical.ly Baltimore | read it > Shipping containers are continuing to prove their worth outside of transportation. From serving as a community-connecting space to an urban farm, one organization is now bringing them into education as mobile laboratories. The 22-foot-long, 8-foot-wide Drop Anywhere Labs are the latest innovation from Maryland education nonprofit Learning Undefeated, formerly MdBio Foundation. The shipping containers are…
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Learning Undefeated’s mobile laboratory program has been profiled in the Rebuild Texas Fund 2-year progress report, titled $100M at Work: Celebrating Community Progress. The August 2019 report highlights projects that have been instrumental in helping Texas communities recover from Hurricane Harvey, which brought catastrophic rain and flooding to areas between Corpus Christi and the Louisiana…
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August 7, 2019 | By Lyna Bentahar | The Sentinel read it > ROCKVILLE – Lt. Governor Boyd Rutherford and Learning Undefeated, a nonprofit for STEM education based in Gaithersburg, unveiled three new laboratories for the use of underserved schools in Maryland and Texas. Learning Undefeated works with the disaster relief funds Rebuild Texas Fund…
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from The Daily Record | read it > A Maryland nonprofit organization that provides STEM education opportunities for underserved communities has launched learning spaces made of shipping containers. Learning Undefeated of Gaithersburg calls its three new science, technology, engineering and math learning spaces Drop Anywhere Labs. The nonprofit plans to ship the new labs, furnished…
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At August 1 ribbon cutting ceremony attended by over 200 supporters, Learning Undefeated debuts three new Drop Anywhere Labs, custom-designed STEM learning spaces built from shipping containers. Smaller, lighter and less expensive than brick-and-mortar or trailer labs, Drop Anywhere Labs offer a blend of career and skills education. Each lab will support a variety of content themes, from science and health to engineering and construction, offering an immersive, hands-on learning environment that can serve up to four classes simultaneously.
DetailsOn August 13th, Learning Undefeated will be partnering with the Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center to provide a one-day STEM summer camp for students living in a temporary shelter. At this time, we will also be bringing school supplies for the students needed in the shelter. Grassroots is a 33-bed temporary shelter for families and women.…
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Some middle school young women got a unique look at how STEM classes can lead to exciting careers. They’re part of a summer camp with Hillsborough Community College. It’s designed to help girls living near the poverty level learn about careers in STEM, science, technology, engineering and math of course. The girls got to visit…
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Learning Undefeated receives grant from Qatar Harvey Fund and Rebuild Texas Fund to build out two mobile science laboratories to be deployed to schools across southeast Texas.
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Citizen science can be a fun and engaging way to bring real research projects into your classroom. Bring hands-on experience into the classroom that has real world applications and allows students to contribute to ongoing research. Explore how citizen science projects can be used to boost classroom learning about data collection, analysis, and interpretation. Discuss and…
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