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Ithaca area middle school students now have an exciting new way—3D, kinesthetic, and visual—to experience topography and isolines in their science classrooms, thanks to our outreach team at Xraise.

Feedback gathered by the Xraise staff from local elementary school teachers during the past year has indicated that more educators would facilitate open-ended engineering projects in their classrooms if they were supplied with the materials needed to conduct such activities.

It is Summer, which means school is out! Teachers are not really requesting equipment from the Lending Library, so what goes on with this program during the summer months?

Students from all over the US are here at CHESS doing summer research as part of four programs—SRCCS, REU, LSamp, and SunRISE.

During the early months of 2013, Xraise approached the educational team at the Sciencenter in Ithaca about the possibility of hosting a new project where guests would have the opportunity to tinker with materials.

STEP, which stands for Science & Technology Entry Program, was first launched by the New York State Department of Education in 1986.

If a 12 year-old child were to ask you to tell them the most important thing you do on a daily basis as part of your job, what would you say?

Even the cold Ithaca spring weather wasn’t enough to damp the excitement of the almost 50 physics teachers that attended the 2016 American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) spring conference, co-hosted by XraiseCornell, on Saturday April 2nd.