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Anyone who has and peered inside a disassembled laptop computer knows there are a lot of electronic components packed inside the case.

The Terra Science and Education Foundation recently awarded Xraise and the Ithaca City School District with their 2015 grant for Best Practices in Urban STEM Education for the project "The E in STEM: Making Engineering Evident in Elementary Schools."

Xraise has been playing an active role in coordinating learning activities addressing the engineering design standards featured in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). 

This fall semester, Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) furthered its educational goals through student-to-student outreach.

On the morning of Nov 20th, a group of 17 middle school students and 2 teachers from the Onondaga Nation participated in a series of activities facilitated by the Xraise staff from the Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based ScienceS and Education.

On a beautiful fall day, two dozen high school science teachers from across the state and beyond attended the Xraise Science Teacher Workshop, hosted at the eXploration station behind Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory.

Several Cornell graduate students in the field of physics and the science outreach specialist for Xraise Cornell, the outreach program of CLASSE (Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education) took advantage of the new Ithaca Physics Bus to showcase the work of local school-age JunkGenies at the World Maker Faire, Sept. 20-21, at the New York Hall of Science in New York City.

In July, twenty public school teachers visited the eXploration Station as a part of the Summer Science Snapshot for Educators program.