A group of Greater Victoria high school students is ­competing with teams from around the world in the Asia-Pacific FIRST Tech Challenge ­Championships, a robotics competition for ­students in Grades 7 to 12, observes Pedro Arrais, Authors, Times Colonist. From left, team members Amren Kareer, 15, Bryce Kong, 15, Ishaan Kareer, 16, Mythri Ushettige, 17, Joel Vermes, 17, and Hanson Chan, 17, with their robot. They are competing against teams from around the world in the Asia-Pacific FIRST Tech Challenge Championships. Photo: Darren Stone, TIMES COLONIST     The FIX IT ..read more

Kylie Khan, Anchor/Reporter summarizes, Students in the Haslett School District are coming off a big win. The Robotics Club won the state championship title this spring, but they’re not taking any time off for the summer. Photo: Screenshot from Schools Rule: Building futures with robotics's Video Ilaria and Aikem were inspired by their older brothers to join the Haslett Robotics Club. Aikem said, “My brother started the year before me. I found it interesting, just going in the basement and seeing what he’s up to.”... The future is looking bright for the next generation of engineers. R ..read more

In a bid to help small media publishers reach new audiences and drive more traffic to their content, the Google News Initiative (GNI) has launched a training academy for 20 media professionals to learn how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used to support their journalism, reports IANS. Google is partnering with Polis, the London School of Economics and Political Science's journalism think tank, to launch the training academy. Photo: Social Media Google is partnering with Polis, the London School of Economics and Political Science's journalism think tank, to launch the training acad ..read more

East China Normal University signed agreements with Microsoft and Lenovo today during the ongoing World Artificial Intelligence Conference to empower education with artificial intelligence by Yang Meiping, Metro Reporter. The agreements were signed at an education-themed forum during the event, which focused on how AI can empower the digital transformation of education. The cooperation between the university and Microsoft Research Asia aims to advance research capabilities and conduct leading-edge research in academia and industry, as well as cultivate and attract high-end talent from across ..read more

Postdoctoral researcher will use AI to study implicit bias in middle school students, according to Adam Zewe, Communications Manager at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.  Photo: Haewon Jeong Even though progress has been made over the past decades, gender and racial disparities in STEM (science, technology, math, and engineering) fields continue to persist. A 2021 Pew Research study found that only 9 percent and 8 percent of STEM jobs are held by Black and Hispanic workers, respectively. And while the study found that women hold 50 percent of all STEM jobs (incl ..read more

Apoorva Bellapu, A content writer by passion says, When thinking of technology, one cannot go without talking about deep learning.  Photo: Analytics Insight Needless to say, deep learning has become one of the most critical aspects of technology. Gone are the days when organizations alone used to show interest in technologies like AI, deep learning, machine learning, etc. Today, even individuals are inclined towards the very aspect of technology, deep learning in particular. One of the many reasons why deep learning draws all the attention is because of its ability to enable impr ..read more

Information is never without uncertainty, argues Tim Andersen, Ph.D., Research in general relativity and quantum field theory, published in Cantor's Paradise. Photo: Alex Chambers on Unsplash The brain is an amazingly complex machine for processing information. Whatever your philosophy of mind is, you can’t deny that it depends in large part on the brain’s ability to process incoming signal data and convert that data into higher level understanding. These days brain-inspired techniques have taken over Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a way that they never had decades ago. Yet, skeptici ..read more

National STEM camps for girls double their reach across Australia by Australian Science Innovations. Women in STEM mentor 128 schoolgirls in science and technology. One hundred and twenty-eight schoolgirls from across Australia, including 90 from regional towns in every state and territory, are completing six months of extension learning and mentoring this week in national camps that have immersed underrepresented girls in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). The high-potential year 9 and 10 students have explored all aspects of STEM through lectures, experiments, workshops, coa ..read more

Manan Khurma, founder and CEO of Cuemath summarizes, Look around you carefully, there is math everywhere.  Even when we use search engines like google or avail of a discount online, consult recommendations before buying a product, watch a favorite movie on an OTT platform, or even understand how a virus becomes a pandemic, it’s all math. So, if you get your math right, you will find an answer to many “Whys” or questions that bombard our minds. Math is a crucial life skill There is a lot more to math than finding the hypotenuse of a right-angle triangle or solving an equation. Math is m ..read more

Math 2.0 Day celebrated every July 8, is a holiday that commemorates the importance of the combination of math and technology. The day was formed to celebrate the accomplishments made through the combination of the field of math and technology, and how it can benefit the world in the coming years. This means without math, it would have been impossible for us to be provided with the different travel and entertainment mediums we have today. Nor would we have the technology we use to accomplish several everyday work tasks. So if you love how easy technological innovations have made your life, ce ..read more