With an oil industry-dependent economy , Azerbaijan is looking to diversify. Focused on nurturing the next generation of STEM-based professions, the Ministry of Education has decided to introduce the Labdisc hands-on solution into their theory based science syllabus.

Last week, on Monday the 21st the United States experienced a solar eclipse, the first recorded in the country for almost 100 years. During this total solar eclipse, the moon’s diameter appeared larger than the sun’s, blocking all direct sunlight and transforming day into complete darkness.

Students of the NASA-funded afterschool NOVAS program in collaboration with Hi-Impact Consultancy in the UK recently launched a Labdisc with a high altitude weather balloon to the edge of space. The students’ mission was to take pictures of Earth from space. The Labdisc’s built-in sensors recorded a rich variety of in-flight data, including the upper atmosphere […]

The SAILS (Strategies for Assessing Inquiry Learning in Science) project is an international initiative aimed at developing new methods for assessing the skills of students engaged in inquiry based science activities. The project is has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program for research technological development and demonstration. 

As part of the prestigious Plan Ceibal, the project leaders also looked to improve science education from elementary school right through to University. Here a solution was required that could offer more sophisticated science functionality, while still be intuitive and robust enough for very young science students.