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  Startacus and Revolve Comics launch TECH CHAMPIONS Belfast, an exciting tech-themed careers comic to highlight diverse range of tech careers and opportunities for young people in the Belfast area. An innovative comic-focused initiative for young people and schools in the Belfast area which showcases careers in the IT industry has been launched to drive awareness on the employment opp...
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Live-streamed event at NI Science Festival set to inspire young people in Northern Ireland on exciting STEM career opportunities and pathways. I LOVE My STEM Career! will all take place on the mornings of the 21st and 22nd Feb, highlighting exciting STEM-focused career opportunities and pathways for teenagers and young people. Via the event live stream (and with a limited number of ticke...
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Coronavirus crisis leads to big increase in demand for maths learning tools created by Belfast EdTech company Komodo Learning... Belfast EdTech company Komodo Learning has seen a fourfold increase in global demand for its maths learning tools as parents look for resources to help their children keep learning during the coronavirus lockdown. Komodo is a maths learning system for children a...
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Learning maths can actually be fun - thanks to this edtech startup, that helps kids learn and compete! Ask anyone what their least favourite subject in school was, and the most likely answer will be maths. For a lot of people maths is a subject that, despite the fact that sums and equations aren’t up for interpretation, the degree to which we are able to learn it depends very much on the wa...
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Stairway, the startup that's on a mission to build the best STEM learning experience and to inspire the next generation of STEM learners, starting with Maths!  Maths is one of the hardest subjects to get to grips with in school. Not only is it the one that most children don’t yet feel can be important later in life and have no vested interest in, but it is also a subject wher...
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Developing Experts empower teachers and parents to teach science with confidence and ease, with an ever-growing library of interactive, online science lessons. Norwich-based startup Developing Experts provides children of 4-14 years old an ever-growing library of more than 700 interactive, online science lessons, including handouts, fun experiments, and assessment for learning activities. These ...
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Voiced by Stephen Fry, ‘Einstein on Time’ will be the first in a children’s educational app series – “Human Heroes” - centred on history’s greatest minds. Due for release 7th December 2018, ‘Einstein on Time’ is the first in a children’s educational app series – “Human Heroes”- centred on history’s greatest m...
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CleverBooks is aiming to set the standards in using Augmented Reality for education. With global ambitions, Cleverbooks is creating STEM-related curriculum-based AR solutions that can be used are as supplementary teaching and learning materials for primary education. Aiming to equip kids with necessary 21st century skills, we spoke to Founder Darya Yegorina at this year's Digital DNA to find...
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Industry Fellow Salford Business School Online MSc and LLM Programmes, TEDx Speaker, BBC Dragons' Den survivor, Maserati100, Board of FuturEverything, Co Founder of Tech North Advocates, Chair of Capital Pilot , Founders4Schools speaker, Digital Advantage collaborator, Wakelet champion, IDEA Award ambassador, Naomi Timperley chats to Startacus at Digital DNA and pretty much manages to talk about a...
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Investor and Tech advocate, Mary McKenna chats to Startacus at Digital DNA 2018, about Women in Tech, education, STEM, Elemental Software, the NI startup ecosystem, and an entrepreneur-in-residence initiative she is heading up in girls school St Mary's College in Derry, NI.  Mary McKenna is a well known Donegal based technology entrepreneur and angel investor.  She c...
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