Online Science for Middle School Receives $2.5 Million
Posted on December 12th, 2010 by Jaimie Schock
The PhET project, which creates online STEM-based simulations for free use, has received new grants totaling in $2.5 million from the National Science Foundation and the Dallas-based O’Donnell Foundation. These grants will allow the University of Colorado at Boulder project to expand to a key area of need: middle school science.
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