October 2016 Mouse Newsletter
Mouse Awarded $350K As Part of $1.2M Grant from NSF
We are thrilled to receive this multi-year grant from the National Science Foundation, in partnership with the Education Development Center’s Center for Children & Technology, DreamYard Project, and Parsons School of Design.
This research grant will establish the first satellite of our Mouse Design League at DreamYard, continue our important work on digital credentials, and most important, further our mission to increase opportunities for minority youth as our next generation of creative technologists, engineers, and designers. Read more
Announcing Mouse Create
We are very proud to launch our new learning platform, Mouse Create, designed for young people to build the skills they need to apply design and technology creatively to the world around them.
Mouse Create provides more than 100 hands-on projects, across many competency areas, including design, circuitry, coding, games, and more. Take a look at Mouse Create!
Mouse Students Celebrate Support from Tri-State Ford
It was an incredible day of creating circuits and making turbines as we welcomed students and educators from ABGS Middle School and our partners from Ford and CBS EcoMedia to Mouse.
Thanks to the generous funding of Tri-State Ford, we were able to bring our Mouse Create learning platform to ten new sites in Staten Island, Long Island, and New Jersey. View press release and see photos >
Thanks to our Generous Supporters for $500K+ in New Grants
We deeply appreciate receiving generous funding from our new partner, Arrow Electronics, and returning supporters The New York City Council, Capital One, Con Edison, Hive Digital Media Fund, and SAP.
These grants will support our empowering youth to create with technology, including this exciting partnership with Arrow Electronics, which will fund our developing new content in wearable technologies, and the continued sponsorship by Capital One of Emoti-Con! Read more >
Mouse Selected as National Curriculum Partner For Games4Change Student Challenge
We are very proud to announce that the Mouse Serious Games course has been selected as the official curriculum for the Games for Change (G4C) Student Challenge!
As National Curriculum Partner, Mouse will provide our Serious Games course and lead professional development for up to 20 schools per city in New York, Dallas, and Pittsburgh. Read more >
Mouse Design League Present Projects at Maker Faire
We were thrilled to kickoff the new school year with Mouse students, educators, and staff at World Maker Faire 2016!
Mouse Design League members and alums presented their award-winning projects while Mouse students from JHS 157 learned how to solder, experienced virtual reality, and watched drones in flight! See photos >
