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It’s the second-oldest university in the U.S., chartered more than 80 years before the Declaration of Independence was written by one of its alumni, Thomas Jefferson. William & Mary, founded in 1693, also has the oldest college building continually used in the U.S., even though the interior of what’s now called the Sir Christopher Wren […]

There’s a lot happening by the shores of Lake Erie in western New York, and Brice Bible loves being in the thick of it. For nearly a decade, the city of Buffalo has been enjoying an economic resurgence, Bible says, changing from a Rust Belt manufacturing center to a high-tech hub as both state and […]

When you grow up with parents like Bradley Hoover’s—a schoolteacher for a mom, a former marine and long-serving police officer for a dad—you just might develop a work ethic the size of Texas. Hoover currently lives just 10 minutes from his childhood hometown of Dime Box, Texas. It’s a place he holds close to his […]

Even with the La Salle College High School campus idled after the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, Braden Bonner was skeptical about a suggestion on how to use the school’s technology. “I was just thinking about keeping students learning and teachers teaching, and it sounded like the students wanted me to install […]

In 2017, when Brook Conner came to work at the Hawaii State Department of Education, he knew his work was cut out for him. A major tipoff was that the department was using antiquated Lotus Notes, in some cases on SunOS—an operating system replaced in the ‘90s. Soon, he had filled a white board with […]

The air is charged with excitement. Kids tightly grip video game controllers, transfixed by monitors displaying showdowns between Nintendo gaming icons like Mario, Donkey Kong and Pokemon’s Pikachu. The characters in the kid-friendly video game don’t knock each other out, just off the stage and out of bounds. And all of this is happening … […]

It’s late August, and on college campuses across the country students are back, with a few days before classes and the study grind begin. Indoors and out, on-campus and off, young people gather to enjoy the final blissful throes of summer. But in 2020, these gatherings have become hazardous, turning campuses into COVID-19 hotspots and […]

Bob Boucher and his team have never had to go back to school to learn how to guide IT at Central Maine Community College because they’ve never really left the campus for very long. “I have four people reporting to me who were previously in work-study programs and are graduates,” says Boucher, a CMCC grad […]

He’s no ornithologist, but Barry Kallmeyer is a big fan of owls. Owl Labs 360-degree cameras, that is—the ones he and his IT team have been installing in classrooms at Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, as the school reopens with a hybrid learning model amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The cameras are the latest […]

In the backyard of the tech industry, one California school district’s tech is undergoing a huge transformation. From the fiber and Wi-Fi connections making a network possible to the laser projectors making learning vivid, Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District is upping its game with the guidance of an IT veteran who’s focused on […]