Jessica MadorA new Internet video game may help teens and young adults understand how easily they can get distracted behind the wheel. The Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Institute at the University of Minnesota is calling the game it developed “Distraction Dodger.” Players drive a virtual pizza delivery vehicle in the imaginary pizza-loving city of Little Moots. Read more →
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Tag: Education
Madeleine Baran
The youth-produced photography exhibit is aimed at raising awareness and money to support those still affected by the May 22 tornado.
What do you do when you can’t convince your community to visit a historic 1900-era potato farm? You bring the potato farm to them.That’s the idea behind the city of Brooklyn Park’s “traveling trunk” project.
Tim Nelson
Sasha Aslanian
MPR youth reporters win top prize in the audio category in a national journalism competition.
Dan OlsonEvery week during the school year Aimee Willoz and Steve Ferris show up at a Hennepin county library and help kids with homework. Mostly math. Aimee works at a Hopkins library and Steve at a north Minneapolis branch. Steve remembers one kid showing up with forty math worksheets due the next day. The teacher handed Read more →
Tom Weber
The latest dust-up in the Anoka-Hennepin school district is over a website the district created last month to address issues related to LGBT students.
Contest to design logo for nuclear sub U.S.S. Minnesota