EarthGen’s Carbon Calculator
EarthGen’s carbon calculator is a powerful tool to identify opportunities to reduce the carbon footprint of your school community and help generate new local project ideas to effectively fight climate change.
Virtual Farm Tour with Dairy Farmers of Washington
Learn what it takes to get milk from the farm to your table on real Washington dairy farms. It takes serious dedication to keep cows healthy and comfortable while preserving the planet—see everything that goes into producing dairy in Washington’s own backyard with this virtual field trip!
Transform Learning with Minecraft
Minecraft is a great school resource. Educators believe it helps them teach their curriculum and lessons. Find out more about Minecraft: Education Edition
Fire-Adapted Community Resources
Resources from recommended by the Department of Natural Resources to help communities prepare for the risk of wildfires
Pallet: An Everett company’s tiny homeless shelters pop up in Portland, more cities across U.S.
Pallet Shelters, an Everett-based company, has developed a prefab tiny house built with rot-resistant plastic composite walls and floors, which can be erected in 30 minutes or less
Work2BeWell — Mental health resources for teens
Work2BeWell is a digital wellness program from Washington’s Providence health care focused on positively impacting the emotional well-being of teens and promoting mental health. The curriculum and tools were created with teens and are intended to be used by students, parents, and teachers.
Human Centered Design 101 Slides
Download presentation and notes from the Human Centered Design 101 workshop with graduate students from the University of Washington’s Project EMAR and School of Human Centered Design and Engineering. Learn how to set up a human centered design process with your students/project teams, and see a design charette in action
Human Centered Design Workshop Miro Board
View the Miro Board used in the Human Centered Design 101 workshop — see how the team used this online tool to create and vote on ideas to develop in the design process. Interested in using Miro with your students/project team? Visit www.miro.com — they also offer education plans for students and teachers
View the Human Centered Design 101 workshop slides for more resources you can use to design and collaborate on Challenge solutions virtually
Human Centered Design Workshop Video
Join graduate students from the University of Washington's Human Centered Design and Engineering school to learn about how human centered design practices -- starting with empathy and moving to ideas -- can help you design solutions to open ended Challenges like the State of Innovation. The team will lead you through a "design charette" -- a workshop that shows how to put human centered design into practice, and demonstrate tools that students and teachers can use to design project solutions.
K-12 Human Centered Design Toolkit and Design Resources
Click here to access University of Washington’s toolkit for creating human-centered design workshops for K-12 students. Step by step guide on setting up design workshops with student project teams, and links to online tools for creating virtual design workshops
WA’s Exposure Notification App
Learn about how Washington State’s new COVID-19 exposure notification app works, and talk directly the team that helped design it at our upcoming industry engagement in January
Architect turns from Mansions to Tiny Homes
Learn how architect Juliette Dubroca transitioned from designing multi-million dollar homes to designing tiny house villages that create more housing for people during the pandemic
Wildland Firefighting with Jason Ramos
Washington-based wildland firefighter and author of “Smoke Jumper” talks about his career fighting wildfires across the West
Food Science with WA Grown
WA Grown explores the science of food with the food scientists at Modernist Cuisine
Getting food from farm to table
Explore how restaurant owners and farmers work together to bring food to your table with WA Grown
Washington Grown
Videos, information about Washington’s agricultural community and the family farmers that lead it
Advanced Manufacturing with SEH
Learn from SEH employees just 1-2 years out of high school about getting on a career path in advanced manufacturing, producing the silicon wafers that run all your electronic devices.
Environmental Scientist Career Spotlight with Career Explore NW
Career Explore NW shares a spotlight on careers in environmental science with Nicki Feiten, Water Resource and Wetlands Scientist from Spokane County Environmental Services
Zillow talks AI and 3D technology in home buying
Learn how Zillow uses artificial intelligence and 3-D cameras to revolutionize the experience of looking for a home during a pandemic. From the CareerConnect@Home video series
