Go for the Gold! Free Training for Educators On Adaptive Technologies from PBS’s MEDAL QUEST
How do science, technology, engineering and math help Paralympic athletes win gold medals? Join WGBH for a FREE webinar to find out. Adaptive Technologies: Where STEM and the Paralympics Meet September 27, 7:00-8:00 pm EST. Learn about Adaptive Technologies, a new collection of media resources for educators from PBS, and explore ways that you can incorporate these free, standards-based resources into your classroom or afterschool program to:
- Increase students’ understanding of people with disabilities
- Broaden awareness of Paralympic sports
- Highlight the adaptive technologies used by Paralympic athletes
- Showcase the engineering design process used to create these technologies
The Adaptive Technologies Special Collection brings together media resources from MEDAL QUEST: American Athletes and the Paralympic Games, a groundbreaking digital series on the inspiring athletes of Team USA and DESIGN SQUAD, the award-winning series that gets kids excited about engineering.
Click here to register for the Adaptive Technologies webinar