Education & Outreach
- In a massive undertaking, a team of educational researchers traveled to 32 kindergarten classrooms to discover how young children spend their time during a typical day at school.
- Social robots tend to be associated with futuristic science fiction movies, like Vision, the android from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or C-3PO from Star Wars. In reality, they have rewarding applications in the present day.
- ATLAS Instructor Annie Margaret is creating a summer program for middle-school girls that will provide strategies adolescents can use to minimize the negative psychological impacts of social media.
- Two local high school students have been volunteering regularly for over two years in the Peleg Lab, to the benefit of the student-volunteers and to the lab in advancing research.
- Since 1981, Upward Bound at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ has offered rigorous college prep and academic enrichment to more than 4,000 Indigenous high school students. Most participants graduate from high school and attend college.
- Campus experts and students from around the state helped organize the first Colorado Summit on Sexual Misconduct, coming up July 19–20, including ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ employees and a student. Also, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ's Valerie Simons will give an opening address at the event.
- High school graduates from underserved communities who are heading to ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ in the fall traveled from around Colorado to campus recently to participate in summer bridge programs, which provide academic classes and community-building activities.
- Just before Denver's Pride weekend, the team behind an innovative effort to make classrooms safer for LGBTQ youth discusses how schools shape what people think is normal.
- The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is offering a virtual workshop for kids 12–18 years old is hosting unexpected professionals, including a brilliant rap artist who will teach attendees how to blend classical sonnets with contemporary hip-hop beats.
- The partnership between ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ and CMU is a unique opportunity for students to earn a ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ engineering degree while studying in Grand Junction. The program has seen siblings and even twins, and of course is open to individuals as well.