Heard of the ocMaker Challenge? It’s a STEM-based design competition that promotes creativity and innovation with this enterprising prompt for students: Design and build — or significantly repurpose — a product that will solve a problem, need or want. Middle school, high school and community college teams...
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson has released a list of the Gold Ribbon Schools for 2016, and nearly 20 percent of them are from Orange County. In all, 722 California schools earned the prestigious designation — including 140 from our area....
The weekly roundup of this week’s top education stories is here: How’s this for ambitious? The Orange County Department of Education will embark on a new campaign encouraging students, educators and community members to help reach the goal of registering one billion...
