STEM TV on Rural Arkansas School Buses

The AP  (11/30, Bleed) reports that Arkansas' rural Hector School District "is participating in a new program believed to be the first of its kind: The school is playing science and math content over ceiling-mounted computer screens during the lengthy bus rides." The bus is equipped with "five ceiling-mounted screens that show educational content geared at different age groups" and headphones in each seat. "The programming rotates daily and features videos from PBS, NASA, the Discovery Channel and Smithsonian Institute." The AP adds that the initiative is a collaboration between the Hector School District and Vanderbilt University's Aspirnaut Program, which "works with rural schools in Arkansas and Maine to help educate students in science, technology, engineering and math." 

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