DALLAS – December 3, 2014 – Learning Magazine recently announced that Nepris is a winner of the Learning® Magazine 2015 Teachers’ Choice ℠Award for the Classroom. Nepris—a cloud-based platform connecting STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) professionals with teachers—manages the end-to-end process including matching professionals’ skills to teachers’ needs and hosting the interactive sessions that bring STEM relevancy to the classroom. Click to Tweet.
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DALLAS – November 17,
2014 – Nepris has been named by Tech &
Learning magazine as a top
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| Carl Fahle of San Juan Unified School District shows a Will Rogers Middle School student how the Schoology learning management system is used for collaboration and personalized learning. |
Join us this week on SmartBlog on Education as we highlight Q&As with the panelists from our recent STEM Pathways Roundtable event. Read our most recent interview with Sabari Raja, CEO of Nepris.
Why is the issue of connecting industry and education to enhance STEM education important to you?
I landed in engineering because my parents said so. Unfortunately, I don’t have that kind of control over my kids. Kids today need to understand the relevance of what they are learning in the classroom and how it applies to the real world and eventually how it ties to a career. Sixty-seven percent of kids have no idea what STEM professionals do.
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x2VOL Simplifies Management and Reporting of High School Community Service Programs
DALLAS — October 29, 2014 — Pearson School Systems has added x2VOL by intelliVOL to its list of Independent Service Vendors. x2VOL solves the problem schools have in managing the community service and volunteer hours their high school students give to nonprofits. x2VOL simplifies management, verification and reporting for student service programs, making hours submission and verification a turn-key process. Administrators and students can also easily generate reports as needed for scholarship and college applications. Click to Tweet.
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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Three school districts in California: San Juan Unified School District in Sacramento, Modesto City Schools, and Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District in Los Angeles recently selected Schoology as their Learning Management System (LMS).
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Tony Wan
Oct 7, 2014, EdSurge
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” It’s a difficult question commonly asked of kids (and sometimes adults).
Nepris, a startup based in Austin, TX, wants to offer students a peek at different career choices by playing matchmaker between industry professionals and classroom teachers and students. For Sabari Raja, co-founder and CEO, the goal is “to make industry engagement a part of the everyday classroom experience, instead of something that happens just once or twice a year.”
Read full article here: https://www.edsurge.com/n/2014-10-07-nepris-raises-550k-to-bring-steam-experts-to-classrooms
The 100 Percent Online State University to Work with Schoology on a Learning Management System for the Future of Its Online Course Delivery
June 20, 2014 04:45 AM Pacific Daylight Time NEW YORK & GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Schoology and CSU-Global Campus are entering a strategic alliance to proactively address the needs of the university’s modern learners. Schoology is a communication and course management platform tying instructors and higher education students together, and will collaborate with CSU-Global on the university’s student-centric online course delivery methods. Click to tweet.
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"This will be a great way to learn how to efficiently manage student service hours in public and private schools," said Michele Pitman, CEO of intelliVOL, which developed the x2VOL tracking and reporting system.
